Clarke, Newman S – Clay, Cassius Marcellus
Clarke, Newman S
soldier, was born in Connecticut. He commanded a brigade in Mexico in 1847, and received the brevet of brigadier-general, March 29, 1847, for gallant conduct at the siege of Vera Cruz. He died Oct. 17, 1860, in San Francisco, Cal.
Clarke, Reader Wright
state legislator, congressman, was born May 18, 1812, in Bethel, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; was a delegate, in 1844, to the Baltimore convention, and was a presidential elector at the ensuing election. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses.
In 1869 he was appointed third auditor of the treasury, and afterwards a collector of internal revenue in Ohio. He died May 23, 1872.
Clarke, Rebecca Sophia
author, was born Feb. 22, 1833, in Norridgewock, Maine. She is a popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; and Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend's Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; and The Doctor's Daughter.
Clarke, Richard
merchant, was born in 1708. He became a merchant in Boston, and he and his sons were consignees of part of the tea that was thrown overboard by the tea-party in Boston harbor in December, 1773. He died in 1795, in England.
Clarke, Richard H
lawyer, author, was born July 3, 1827, in Washington, D. C. He is a prominent Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.
Clarke, Richard H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1843, in Marengo county, Ala. He served as a lieutenant in the first battalion of Alabama artillery. He was prosecuting attorney for Marengo county from 1872 to 1876, and was prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial circuit from 1876 to 1877.
He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Clarke, Robert
surveyor, was born in London, England. In 1639 he sat as a freeman in the Maryland legislature, in 1640 was deputy surveyor, and in 1649 surveyor-general of the province. died in Maryland.
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Clarke, Robert
journalist, author, was born May 1, 1829, in Scotland. He edited Col. George Rogers Clarke's Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-79; James McBride's Pioneer Biographies; Captain James Smith's Captivity with the Indians; and is the author of a pamphlet entitled The Pre-Historic Remains Which Were Found on the Site of the City of Cincinnati, with a Vindication of the Cincinnati Tablet.
Clarke, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born in 1599 in England. He published, besides theological works and a famous General Martyrology, A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations of the English in America; and New Description of the World. He died in 1682.
Clarke, Samuel Fessenden
naturalist, author, was born June 4, 1851, in Geneva, Ill. During 1874-75 he was assistant to the United States fish commission, and from 1879 till 1881 assistant in the biological laboratory at Johns Hopkins university. In 1882 he became lecturer in biology at Smith college, and also professor of natural sciences at Williams college.
Clarke, Sara J
author, was born Sept. 12, 1840, in Norridgewock, Maine.
She is the author of the Little Miss Weezy Series and the Silver Gate Series, which have become very popular.
Clarke, Sidney
soldier, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1831, in Southbridge, Mass. He published the Southbridge Press. In 1858 he moved to Kansas, and settled in Lawrence. He was a member of the state legislature in 1862; and subsequently rendered military service against the rebellion as a captain of volunteers, and assistant provost marshal-general. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican, and made chairman of Indian affairs.
Clarke, Staley N
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1841 to 1843.
CLARKE, WALTER. He was a colonial governor of Rhode Island and lived in the seventeenth century.
Clarke, William
soldier, explorer, governor, was born Aug. 1, 1770, in Virginia. He was associated with Lewis, and conducted the first exploring expedition across the American continent to the Columbia river, and gave the names of Lewis and Clarke to the two tributaries of that river. He was promoted to brigadier-general, and was governor of Louisiana territory from 1813-20. He died Sept. 1, 1838, in St. Louis, Mo.
Clarkson, Floyd
soldier, was born Feb. 27, 1831, in New York city. He served through the civil war, and in 1866 was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services. He was a trustee of the Union Dime Savings bank of New York city, and president of the Riverside bank. He died Jan. 2, 1894, in New York city.
Clarkson, James Sullivan
journalist, was born May 17, 1842, in Brookville, Ind. He has been first assistant postmaster - general, and chairman of the republican national committee. He has a natural aptitude and love for politics.
He was made chairman of the republican state committee when but twentyfour years of age; and when twentyfive was offered the Swiss mission by President Grant. In 1871 he was appointed postmaster at Des Moines, Iowa, which he filled until 1877. He began life as a school teacher; learned the printing business and worked on the Daily State Register of Des Moines, of which he became foreman, reporter, night editor, city editor, and editor-in-chief. This publication, with his brother, he purchased in 1870, which he has made the leading paper of Iowa. He is president of the Republican league of the United States, and one of the foremost political leaders in America.
Clarkson, Matthew
congressman.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from Pennsylvania from 1785 to
Clarkson, Robert Harper
bishop, author, was born Nov. 19, 1826, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was consecrated missionary bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, in Chicago in 1865, and three years later, when Nebraska was organized as a diocese and admitted into union with the general convention, he was chosen to be the bishop of the new diocese. He died.
March 10, 1884, in Omaha, Neb.
Clary, Joseph Monroe
educator, lawyer, author, was born July 28, 1861, in Saline county, Ill. He is the author of a work entitled Our Nation's History and Song.
Clary, Robert Emmet
soldier, was born March 21, 1805, in Ashfield, Mass.
He served in the Florida war of 1840-41; and at various posts till the civil war.
In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for his services during the war. He died Jan. 19, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Clason, Isaac Starr
educator, actor, author, poet, was born in 1789 in New York. He was the author of Horace in New York, a collection of poems, full of the New York gossip of the day, and celebrating, among others, Madame Malibran, then the chief operatic singer. He died in 1834 in London, England.
Clawson, Isaiah D
congressman, was born March 30, 1822, in Woodstown, N. J. He was a member of the New Jersey assembly in 1853, and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Claxton, Kate
actress, was born in 1848 in New York city. She first appeared with Lotta in Chicago, but attracted no attention until the production of Led Astray, in 1873.
CLAY, ALEXANDER STEPHENS, United States senator, was born Sept. 25 -, in Cobb county, Ga. He was elected a member of the city council in 1880 and re-elected in 1881; and in 1884-85 and 1886-87 represented Cobb county in the general assembly of the state. In the latter term he was elected speaker protempore; was re-elected for 1889-90, and served as speaker for two years. In 1892 he was elected to the state senate, and served as president of that body for two years. In 1894 he was elected chairman of the state democratic executive committee, and conducted the state campaign between the democrats and populists that year, and was re-elected to the same position in 1896, and still occupies the place. He was elected to the United States senate as a democrat for term of 1897-1903.
Clay, Brutus J
state legislator, congressman, was born July 1, 1808, in Madison county, Ky. In 1840 he served in the Kentucky state legislature. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-eighth congress.
Clay, Cassius Marcellus
statesman, was born Oct. 19, 1810, in Madison county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1835, 1837 and 1840, and of the national whig convention of 1840, at Harrisburg. He stumped the northern states for Henry Clay for the presidency in 1844; in 1845, issued, in Lexington, The True American, weekly anti-slavery paper; in August his a press was seized by a mob, and the paper was afterwards printed in Cincinnati and published in Lexington, whither he had removed in 1840, and later in Louisville.