Clarke, Dorus – Clarke, Nathan Dane Apple- Ton
Clarke, Dorus
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 2, 1797, in Westhampton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston; and the author of Letters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the Christian Church; Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects; Saying the Catechism Seventy-five Years Ago and the Historical Results; Review of the Oberlin Council; Letters to Young People in Manufacturing Villages; Revision of the English Version of the Bible; and Essay on the Tri-Unity of God. He died March 8, 1884, in Boston, Mass.
Clarke, Edward Fielding
lawyer, was born March 19, 1873, in Morehead, Ky. He studied law in his father's office; was admitted to the bar in 1894, and practices his profession in his native city.
Clarke, Edward Hammond
physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1820, in Norton, Mass. He was a prominent physician and medical writer of Boston; and the author of Sex in Education; The Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; and Nature and Treatment of Polypus of the Ear. He died Nov. 30, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
Clarke, Elijah
soldier, was born in North Carolina. He became a captain in 1776, and distinguished himself in engagements both with Indians and British on the frontiers of Georgia. He afterward fought many battles, and made several treaties with the Creek Indians. He died Dec. 15, 1809, in Wilkes county, Pa.
Clarke, Frank Gay
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1850, in Wilton, N. H. He was a member of the state house of representatives of 1885; of the state senate in 1889; reelected to the former in 1891, and was chosen speaker of that body. He was appointed colonel on the military staff of Governor Hale, and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth
chemist, author, was born March 19, 1847, in Boston, Mass. He is the chief chemist of the United States geological survey at Washington; and the author of Weights, Measures, and Money of All Nations; and Elements of Chemistry.
Clarke, Freeman
merchant, banker, railroad president, congressman, was born March 22, 1809, in Troy, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress.
In 1865 he was appointed comptroller of the currency; and in 1867 was elected to the New York state constitutional convention. In 1870 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortysecond congress, and in 1872 was re-elected to the forty-third congress.
Clarke, George Rogers
soldier, was born in 1752 in Virginia. He was one of the most accomplished and useful officers of the western pioneers during the revolution. He died in 1848 near Louisville, Ky.
Clarke, Henry J
lawyer, jurist, was born March 31, 1845, in Southbridge, Mass. He is a descendant of Jacob Clarke, who came from Bristol, England, in 1679, and settled in Providence, R. I.
In 1875 he graduated from the Boston University Law school with the degree of LL. B.; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Webster, Mass. He has been a justice of the peace, and held other prominent positions in his county and state.
Clarke, Isaac A
soldier, educator, was born March 22, 1837, in Overton county, Tenn. During the war he served as a quartermaster, with the rank of captain, in the confederate army. He was one of the founders of Clarke's academy of Berryville, Ark.; has been county examiner; and is prominent in educational affairs in the state of Arkansas.
Clarke, Isaac Edwards
lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts.
He has been a lawyer in the United States civil service since 1871; and is the author of Tribute to Bayard Taylor; and Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.
Clarke, James
journalist, governor, was born in 1806 in Westmoreland, Pa.
He conducted the Territorial, now State Gazette of Burlington, Iowa, during 1837- 39; was appointed secretary of the territory; and from 1843 to 1845 resumed the Gazette. He was governor of the territory in 1846; and again edited the Gazette from 1848 until his death. He died July 28, 1850, in Burlington, Iowa.
Clarke, James C
railroad president, was born in 1824 in Montgomery county, Md. Since 1895 he has been president of the Mobile and Ohio railroads.
Clarke, James Freeman
clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1810, in Hanover, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, who founded there the Church of the Disciples, and was its pastor from 1841 till his death. He was especially prominent among unitarian writers of the latter half of the century, the tone of his thought being that of the liberal conservative. His first important work was Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors (1866). Other works of his include Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in Comparative Theology; Ten Great Religions, Part II, a Comparison of All Religions; Christian Doctrine of Prayer; Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Religion; Steps of Belief; Events and Epochs in Religious History; Self-Culture; Every Day Religion; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Vexed Questions in Theology; and Anti-Slavery Days. He died June 8, 1888, in Jamaica Plains, Mass.
Clarke, John
governor. He was governor of Delaware in 1816 and 1817.
He died in August, 1821, in Smyrna, Del.
Clarke, John
physician, author, and one of the founders of Rhode Island, was born Oct. 8, 1609, in England. He died April 20, 1676, in Newport, R. I.
Clarke, John
soldier, governor, was born in 1766. He fought under his father, General Elijah Clarke, in the revolutionary army. At the siege of Augusta and at the battle of Jack's Creek, in 1787, he greatly distinguished himself, and attained the rank of major-general of the state militia. He was governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823. He died Oct. 15, 1832, in West Florida.
Clarke, John B
lawyer, congressman, was born April 14, 1833, near Augusta, Ky. He was elected county attorney in 1858, and served four years; and was elected to the state senate of Kentucky in 1867, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Clarke, John C
congressman, was born in 1793, in Connecticut. He served in the assembly of New York in 1826; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1837 to 1843. In 1849 he was appointed first auditor of the treasury. He died in 1852.
Clarke, John H
lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1791 in Elizabethtown, N. J. He served in the state legislature; and was a senator in congress from Rhode Island, from 1847 to 1853.
Clarke, John Mason
geologist, author, was born April 15, 1857, in Canandaigua, N. Y. From 1881 till 1884 he was professor of geology and mineralogy at Smith college, Northampton, Mass., after which he filled a similar chair in the Massachusetts Agricultural college at Amherst, and in 1886 became assistant paleontologist of the state of New York. His published papers include New Devonian Crustacea; On Devonian Spores; The Geological Succession in Ontario County, N. Y.; and On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, N. Y.
Clarke, John Sleeker
actor, was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. His professional debut was made as Frank Hardy in Paul Pry at the Howard Athenæum of Boston when he was eighteen years of age. In 1867 he went to reside in London, England. He played Toodles, which is perhaps his finest creation, for two hundred nights without interruption when it was first introduced at the Strand theater, London.
Clarke, John T
jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Putnam county, Ga. He served as judge of the superior courts of the Pataula circuit in Georgia; and in 1878 was a member of the Georgia state senate.
Clarke, Joseph Morrison
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in Bethany, Conn. This eminent clergyman is the author of Letters on Christian Union; Annual Addresses; and numerous contributions to church literature.
Clarke, Mac Donald
author, poet, was born June 18, 1798, in Bath, Maine.
He was an eccentric, unbalanced versewriter of New York city, who was commonly styled the mad poet; and was the author of Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance Poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; and Review of the Eve of Eternity. He died March 5, 1842, in New York city.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard Devereux
author, was born about 1830 in Raleigh, N. C. She published Reminiscences of Cuba: Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; and Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.
Clarke, Mary H. G
author, poet, was born March 28, 1835, in Bristol, R. I.
Some of her books are: Effie; Fairy Queen of Dolls; Prince Puss-in-Boots; Golden Hair and Her Knight of the Bean Stalk in the Enchanted Forest; and numerous others. She died May 31, 1892, in Cambridge, Mass.
Clarke, Matthew St. Clair
journalist, state legislator, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1843 he was appointed sixth auditor of the treasury, and held that office two years. He was the publisher of the great work called the American Archives, edited by Peter Force, who was also directly interested in its publication. He died in Washington, D. C.
Clarke, Nathan Dane Apple- Ton
lawyer, was born April 15, 1852, in Alfred, Maine. He graduated from the Bowdoin college, and has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Massachusetts, and practices his profession in Lynn.