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626 course of studies. In 1834 he entered Wesleyan university with an advanced standing, and was graduated in 1836. Soon after this he became a teacher in the department of mathematics at Amenia seminary, N. Y., where he remained seven years, during most of the time filling the offices of principal and professor of intellectual and moral jjhilosophy, and also acting as preacher to the seminary. In 1843 he became a member of the New York conference, and for the next ten years was actively engaged in pastoral services in New York city and other places. In the latter part of 1853 he became editor of the " Ladies' Repository," a monthly religious and literary magazine published in Cincinnati, Ohio. In May, 1864, he was chosen, by the general conference at Philadelphia, to the office of a bishop. In 1839 Mr. Clark married Miss Mary J. Redman, of Tren- ton, N. J., who, with two sons and two daughters, survived him. In 1851 he received from his alma mater the degree of D. D, He was chosen by the New York conference as a delegate to the general conference, for the several sessions of that body, for 1856-'60, and 1864. As a preacher he was able and instructive, and in some cases intensely earnest and eloquent ; as a pastor he was diligent and painstaking, and in his religious life at once cheerful and earnestly devout. He was always a laborious student. Though he was recognized as among the more conservative of anti-slavery men, yet the passage of the fugitive slave law, and its subsequent enforcement, aroused him to earnest and outspoken opposition ; and when the civil war began he was among the most active advocates of the cause of the Union. After the war he entered heartily into the measure adopted by his church for improving the condition of the freedmen. On his elevation to the episcopacy. Bishop Clark's first assignment to service was to visit and superintend the work of the church in California and Oregon, which occupied him during the latter part of 1864. In 1866 his work was chieily in the region soutli of Ohio river, and during that time he organized the conferences in east and middle Tennessee, and in northern Georgia and Alabama. In subsequent years he visited, in his episcopal tours, nearly every state and territory of the nation, presiding at the sessions of the annual conferences, and laboring in all ways to promote the interests of the church. Bishop Clark was rather above the average height, exceedingly well developed, and of rather full habit. His complexion was slightly florid, and his hair a dark auburn. His works include " Ele- ments of Algebra," prepared while teaching in that department at Amenia, and " Mental Discipline," a small treatise, intended primarily for his own pupils ; also " The Life and Times of Bishop Bed- ding " and " Man all Immortal."

CLARK, Edson Lyman, author, b. in Easthampton, Mass., 1 April, 1827. After attending Williston seminary in his native town, he was graduated at Yale in 1853, and at Union theological seminary. New York city, in 1858. He taught in a classical school in New York from 1853 till 1856. He was pastor of the Congregational cliurch in Dalton, Mass., from 1859 till 1867, at North Bran- ford, Conn., to August, 1877, and at Southampton, Mass., till May, 1886. He has published "The Arabs and the Turks" (Boston, 1876); "The Races of European Turkey " (iSl ew York, 1878) ; and " Fun- damental Questions ; chiefly relating to the Book of Genesis and the Hebrew "Language " (1882).

CLARK, Georg'e Hunt, poet, b. in North- ampton, Mass., in 1809 ; d. in Hartford. Conn., 20 Aug., 1881. He became an iron merchant at Hartford, and was a frequent contributor to " Putnam's Magazine," the " Knickerbocker," and other periodicals. He published " Now and Then " and " The News," poems of about 1,000 lines each, and " Undertow of a Trade-Wind Surf," a collection of sentimental and humorous pieces.

CLARK, George Rogers, soldier, b. near Monticello, Albemarle co., Va., 19 Nov., 1752 ; d. near Louisville, Ky., 18 Feb., 1818. He spent his early life in Caroline county, Va., and enjoyed some educational advantages from a noted Scotch teacher, Donald Robertson, in King and Queen county among whose pupils was James Madison. He fitted himself for a surveyor, and at the age of twenty prac- tised his pro- fession on the upper Ohio, and became a farmer. Two years later he served under Gov. Dunmore in his cam- paign against the Shawnees and their al- lies, which ended in the treaty of Camp Charlotte, memorable as the occa- sion of the undying speech of Logan, the Mingo chief. Early in 1775 Clark went to Kentucky, and was occupied in surveying ; but, as the west- ern Indians were induced by the British to take up the tomahawk, he became the natural leader of the people in the defence of their infant settle- ments, was made a major of the militia in 1776, and chosen as a delegate to the Virginia conven- tion, to urge upon the state authorities the claims of the colony for government and defence. He arrived at Williamsburg just after the convention had adjourned, but succeeded in procuring the formation of the new county of Kentucky, and a supply of ammunition for the defence of the frontier. It is said that Clark, seeing that his ap- peal for powder was likely to remain unheeded, exclaimed : " A country which is not worth de- fending is not worth claiming." The 500 pounds of powder thus obtained was conveyed by land to the Monongahela, and thence by water to the Three islands, a few miles above where Maysville now is, and there secreted, while Clark and his escort went to Harrodsburg for horses and a guard for its conveyance to that station. At length it reached the place of its destination, but not with- out the loss of some of the party who first at- tempted its acquisition. Early in 1777 Clark re- pelled the Indian attacks on Harrodsburg, sent out spies to Illinois, and on their return hastened on foot to Virginia to lay before the governor and council his plan for the conquest of the Illinois country and the repression of the murderous In- dian forays from that quarter. His scheme was approved, and he was made a lieutenant-colonel, au- thorized to raise the necessary troops, and pushed on with his little force to a small island oppo- site the present city of Louisville, where he erected block-houses, drilled his men, and planted corn. Hence the name of Corn island. On 24 June, 1778, during an eclipse of the sun, he set sail, passed