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Sears, Clinton Brooks

civil and military engineer, was born June 2, 1844, in Penn Yan, N. Y. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan university, and graduated from the United States Military academy in 1867. During the civil war he served as a volunteer, and was in the battles of Richmond and Perryville, Ky.; and Stone River, Tenn.

He was color sergeant of the ninetyfifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in the Vicksburg campaign. Since his graduation in 1867 he has been in charge of various public works, civil and military, on the Atlantic and Pacific coast, and in the Mississippi valley. He is now major in the corps of engineers of the United States army in charge of river and harbor works, with head-quarters at Duluth, Minn.