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Rh collector of customs from 1869 till 1871. lie is the author of numerous medical papers, and of " The Commonwealth Reconstructed" (New York, 1878), proposing an ingenious device for the reform of our political system.

CLARK, Daniel, senator, b. in Stratham, Rock- ingham CO., N. H., 24 Oct., 1809 ; d. in Manchester, N. H., 2 Jan., 1891. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in 1 834, studied law, and began practice at Epping, N. H., in 1837. He removed to Manches- ter, N. H., in 1839, and was a member of the legis- lature for five years. He was elected LT. S. sena- tor in 1857 for the unexpired term of James Bell, deceased, and was re-elected in 1861, serving till he resigned in July, 1866. He was president pro tern, of the senate for some time in 1864-'5. On 11 July, 1861, Senator Clark offered a resolution, which was adopted, expelling from the senate the southern senators who had left their seats on the secession of their states. He took an active part in the debates of the senate, and was a steadfast supporter of the government during the civil war. On his resignation, he was appointed by President Johnson U. S. judge for the district of New Hamp- shire. Pie was president of the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1876.

CLARK, Daniel, Canadian physician, b. in Granton, Invernesshire, Scotland, 29 Aug., 1835. In 1841 his parents arrived in Canada and settled on a farm near Port Dover, Norfolk co., Ontario. In 1850 Daniel set out for California, and, after undergoing great hardships, accumulated a large amount by placer mining. He returned to Canada in 1851, attended the Simcoe grammar-school, and subsequently pursued classical and medical studies in Toronto, finally being graduated M. D. at Vic- toria college, Cobourg, in 1858. He then at- tended leetui-es at Edinburgh university, and afterward visited the hospitals of the chief cities of Eui-ope. In 1859 he returned to Canada and engaged in the practice of his profession at Prince- ton, Ontario. In 1864 he entered the service of the United States, and was attached to the surgeon- general's department. He was chosen a member of the medical council of Ontario in 1872, and has been its president. He has also been examiner on various subjects for Toronto university and the College of physicians and surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Clark is now (1886) superintendent of the Pro- vincial asylum for the insane, Toronto. He has published " Pen Photographs " (1873), and " John Garth," a novel illustrating scenes in the rebellion of 1837, and has been a frequent contributor to medical, religious, and other magazines.

CLARK, Daniel A., clergyman, b. in Rahway, N. J., 1 March, 1779 ; d. in New York, 3 March, 1840. He was graduated at Princeton in 1808, studied at Andover theological seminary, and while there was licensed by the presbytery of New Jer- sey, and in 1812 was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational union church of Braintree and Weymouth, Mass. Thence he removed, in 1815, to Hanover, N. J., and the year following went to Southbury, Conn., where, in addition to his pastoral labors, he taught gratuitously in order to elevate the standard of education in the place. In 1820 he was installed pastor of the West parish of Amherst, Mass., and became one of the founders of the college there. He accepted a call to Ben- nington in 1826, and afterward preached for short periods in various places. His complete works, with a biographical sketch by George Shepard, were published in 1846 (5th ed., edited by his son, James H. Clark, M. D., 2 vols.. New York, 1855).— His son, James Henry, physician, b. in Livingston, N. Y., 23 June, 1814 ; d. in Montclair, N. J., 6 March, 1869, was educated at Bennington, Vt., and at Amherst. He studied medicine with Dr. James C. Bliss, of New York, and in Eui'ope, and received his diploma from the College of physicians and sur- geons. New York city, in 1841. After more study abroad he settled in Newark, N. J., in 1846, and made diseases of the eye and ear his specialty. Dr. Clark was president of the Essex county medical society in 1867, and its historian in 1868. He was one of the founders of the Park Presbyterian church in Newark, and was for several years secretary of the Tract society of that city. In 1863 he removed to Montclair, but retained his office in Newark. Dr. Clark published, besides his father's works, " History of the Cholera as it appeared in Newark in 1849 " (Newark, 1850) ; " Sight and Hearing : How Preserved, How Lost " (1856) ; " Medical To- pography of Newark and its Vicinity " (1861) ; and " The Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex Dis- trict, from 1666 to 1866 " (Newark, 1868). He left an unfinished "Encyclopaedia of Diseases." — An- other son, Horace Francis, railroad president, b. in Southbury, Conn., 29 Nov., 1815 ; d. in New York city, 19 June, 1873, was graduated at Will- iams in 1833, studied law in the office of Prescott Hall, and in 1837 was admitted to the New York bar. During the nineteen years that he was en- gaged in active practice he was reputed to be the most active, diligent, and hard-working lawyer in the profession in New York. In 1856 he was elected to congress on the democratic ticket, but, though identified with the wing of the democratic party then known as Hardshells, he dissented from the first from the policy of Mr. Buchanan in regard to Kansas, supported the views of Senator Douglas, and was one of the five anti-Lecompton men who finally effected the organization of the house. At the close of his term he was re-elected as an inde- pendent candidate. During his first term he was assigned to the jiidiciary committee, and during the second to the committee on Indian affairs. In 1857 Mr. Clark first became a director in the New York and Harlem railroad, then not a very profit- able enterprise, from which time dated his active participation in railroad operations. He afterward became president of the Lake Shore, Michigan Southern, and Northern Indiana railroad, and of the Union Pacific railroad, besides being director in the New York Central and Hudson River rail- road ; the New York and Harlem ; the New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield ; the Shore Line ; the Chi- cago and Northwestern, and holding a valuable in- terest in various other lines. He was also president of the Union Trust company of New York, and an active manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, and other corporations. He was also an operator in Wall street, where his infiuence was great. When the combined attack was made on the Tweed ring in 1871, Mr. Clark rendered power- ful assistance in breaking the political power of the ring, and driving Tweed and his friends out of Tammany hall, and from that time he continued to be an active member of the society. Mr. Clark gave freely to charitable objects. Williams college gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1868. He mar- ried, in 1848, a daughter of Com. Vanderbilt.

CLARK, Davis Wasgatt, M. E. bishop, b. on the island of Mount Desert, Me., 12 Feb., 1812; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 23 May, 1871. He united with the Methodist church at the age of seventeen, and three years later he became a student in the Maine Wesleyan seminary, in Readfield, where he continued for three years, pursuing the preparatory and, in part, the regular collegiate