Clayton, Thomas – Clemmer, Mary
Clayton, Thomas
jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born March 9, 1778, in Newcastle, Del. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1813 to 1817; United States senator from 1823 to 1826, and again from 1837 to 1847. He was, at different periods, a member of the Delaware legislature, chief justice of the court of common pleas, and of the superior court. He died Aug. 21, 1854, in Newcastle, Del.
Claytor, Graham
lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 27, 1852, in Bedford county, Va. For many years he taught school; then engaged in the practice of law at Bedford City, Va.; and in 1895 was elected the commonwealth's attorney. He is the author of two novels of southern life, and a book of pastoral poems.
Cleary, Kate Phelim
author, poet, was born Aug. 20, 1863, in Canada. A number of excellent short stories and poems have appeared from the pen of this author in standard collections and in current magazines.
Cleaveland, J. F
merchant, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839.
He subsequently removed to Charleston, where he became a merchant. He died May 19, 1841.
Cleaveland, John
clergyman, author, was born April 22, 1722, in Canterbury, Conn. He was a congregational minister of Massachusetts, and the author of The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ's Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions Cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew's Letter of Reproof; and Treatise on Infant Baptism. He died April 22, 1799, in Ipswich, Mass.
Cleaveland, Moses
pioneer, was born Jan. 29, 1754, in Canterbury, Conn.
He was commissioned captain of a company of sappers and miners in 1779, served for several years, and then resumed legal practice. He was several times elected to the legislature, and in 1796 was commissioned brigadier-general of militia. He died Nov. 16, 1806, in Canterbury, Conn.
Cleaveland, Nehemiah
educator, author, was born in 1796 in Topsfield, Mass. He was an educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates, 1806-79, which was edited and completed by A. S. Packard. He died in 1877.
Cleaveland, Parker
educator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1780, in Rowley, Mass. In 1799 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then entered educational work. In 1805 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Bowdoin college; and subsequently lectured extensively on the sciences of chemistry and mineralogy. He was the author of a work on Mineralogy; and contributed extensively to scientific journals. He gained the title of the father of American mineralogy.
He died Oct. 15, 1858, in Brunswick, Maine.
Cleaveland, William Waldo
manufacturer, was born Jan. 8, 1864, in Lake City, Fla. In 1893 he organized a stock company to handle and manufacture furniture on a scale never before attempted in Florida.
Cleaves, Henry Bradstreet
lawyer, legislator, governor. He was educated in the common schools of Maine, and at Bridgton and Lewiston Falls academies. He served under Grant and Sheridan in the war for the preservation of the union, and at its close was offered a commission in the regular army by secretary of war Stanton, which was declined. He served as city solicitor of Portland, Maine, and represented that city in the state legislature two terms. He served five years as attorney-general of Maine. In 1893 he was elected governor of Maine, and served with distinction for two terms, and upon Governor Cleaves' retiring from this office in January, 1897, both branches of the legislature unanimously passed resolutions commending his honorable service.
Cleaves, Nathan
lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born in January, 1835, in Bridgton, Maine. He was elected city solicitor of Portland, Maine, in 1869; and has represented that city twice in the legislature, and been judge of probate for the county.
Cleland, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1778, in Fairfax county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; and Unitarianism Unmasked. He died Jan. 31, 1858, in Fairfax county, Va.
Clemens, Jeremiah
soldier, United States senator, author, was born Dec. 28, 1814, in Huntsville, Ala. In 1830-41 he was elected a member of the state legislature; in 1842 raised a company of volunteer troops and went to Texas, having been appointed lieutenant-colonel, and was subsequently appointed to the same office in the regular army. In 1843 and 1844 he was again elected to the legislature; in 1844 was a presidential elector, and in 1848 was appointed governor of the civil and military department of purchase in Mexico, which position he held until the close of the war. He was a senator in congress from Alabama from 1849 to 1853.
He was the author of Bernard Lile; Mustang Gray; The Rivals; and Tobias Wilson. He died May 21, 1865, in Huntsville, Ala.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
author, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Mo. He is a celebrated humorist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humorous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are: A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd'nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; and Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production.
Clemens, Sherrard
lawyer, congressman, was born April 28, 1826, in Wheeling, Va. He was elected a member of congress from 1852 to 1853, and was elected to the thirty-fifth and thirtysixth congresses.
Clemens, William M
journalist, author, was born in 1859. He is a journalist of Cleveland; and the author of Life and Times of John Brown, and The Nemesis of Passion.
Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine
author, was born Aug. 28, 1834, in St.
Louis, Mo. Her first work, the Simple Story of the Orient, was printed privately in 1869. She has published Legendary and Mythological Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works; Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, in conjunction with Laurence Hutton; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; History of Egypt; three Hand- Books of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints; and Stories of Art and Artists.
Clements, Andrew J
physician, congressman, was born in 1832 in Jackson county, Tenn. He was elected a representative from Tennessee in the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1866 was elected to the legislature of Tennessee.
Clements, Charles Wesley
merchant, legislator, was born July 22, 1851, near Church Hill, Md. He is a successful merchant of Crumpton, Md.; served with distinction as a member of the house of delegates of Maryland in 1894; and has always taken an active part in politics.
Clements, Emma Newbold
temperance reformer. She became greatly interested in temperance reform in 1884; has been the president of two local unions of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and one of its national superintendents.
Clements, Isaac
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1837 in Franklin county, Ind. He entered the union army as second lieutenant of infantry in 1861, and remained in the service three years. He was appointed register in bankruptcy in June, 1867, and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.
Clements, Judson C
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1846, in Walker county, Ga. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1872 for the term of two years, and was re-elected in 1874. He was elected a state senator in 1877, and was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortyseventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Clements, Newton N
merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1837, in Tuskaloosa county, Ala. He was president of the Tuskaloosa Manufacturing company, and was a representative in the legislature of Alabama in 1870-78. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy.
Clements, Samuel
educator, cler... gyman, was born Oct. 20, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he had the care for a year of a missionary training school; at the end of that time he was led to establish, near Philadelphia, the Cheltenham academy, a military school for boys, where hundreds have been educated for lives of usefulness. He died Dec. 9, 1888.
Clemmer, Mary
author, poet, was born in 1838. She was one of America's best newspaper correspondents; and the author of Memorial of Alice and Phœbe Cary, His Two Wives, a volume of poems.
She died in 1884.