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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Claggett, Thomas John, bishop, author, was born on Oct. 2, 1743, in Prince George county, Md. In 1762 he graduated from Princeton college, and ,

studied thology, but as there were no bishops in America he had to go to England for orders. In 1767 he

ordained priest;

was

and and was apdeacon

pointed to the rectorship of Calvert county,

Md. He was con-

secrated the

first bish-

op of Maryland, and he was consecrated in 'Sew York, Sept. 17, 1792, Bishop Seabury joining in the consecration. In 1800 Bishop Claggett was chaplain to the United States senate, this being the iirst session of congress held in Washington city. He died Aug. 3, 181G, in Croom, Md. Claggett, William H., lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1838, in Marlborough, Md. He was a member of the legislature of iMevada in 1862, 1863 and 1865. In 1871-73 he was a territorial delegate from Montana to the forty-second congress. He died Aug. 4, 1901, in Spokane, Wash.

Claghom, Kate HoUaday, litterateur, auwas born Dec. 12, 1863, in Aurora, 111. She is the author of College Training for

thor,

Women. Claiborne, Ferdinand Leigh, soldier, jurist, was born in 1773, in Sussex county, Va. In 1813 he was made brigadier-general United States volunteers; and commanded in the engagment with the Creek Indians at the Holy Ground in December, 1813. He then settled in Mississippi; and in 1815 became legislative councilor, later presiding over the deliberations of the legislature. He died in February, 1815, in Natchez, legislator,

Miss. Claiborne, John, congressman, was bom in Virginia. In 1805-08 he was a representative from Virginia to the ninth and tenth congresses, serving until his death. He died In 1808 in Virginia. Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck, jour-

congressman, author, was born April Natchez, Miss. During three sessions he was a representative of the Mississippi legislature; and in 1835-38 he was a representative from Mississippi to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses; and for many years he conducted the Natchez Free Trader, and also the Louisiana Courier. He was the author of Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State; Life of General Dale, and Life of Quitnam. He died May 17, 1884, in Natchez, Miss. nalist,

24, 1809, in

Claiborne, John Herbert, physician, surgeon, state senator, author, was bom March 10, 1838, in Brunswick county, Va. He was ia member of the Virginia state legislature

in 1855-56;

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was

state senator in 1857; and in the confederate army in 1861-65. He was the author of Diphtheria; The Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private Practice; and The Old Virginia Doctor. He died in 1905 in Petersburg, Va. Claiborne, John Herbert, surgeon, aurist, was born June 29, 1861, in Louisburg, N.H. In the Spanish-American war he served as line -captain in the New York volunteer infantry. He is an oculist of New York City. He is the author of Theory and Practice of the Ophthalmoscope; The Functional Experience of Camp Thomas; and other raeai-

1861-62;

cal

and surgeon

Monographs.

Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert, congressman, author, was born on Nov. 14, 1777, in Sussex county, Va. He served many years in the Virginia state legislature; and was also a member of the executive council. In 183537 he was a representative from Virginia to the nineteenth to the twenty-fourth congresses, j-ie was the author of Notes on the War in the South. He died Aug. 15, 1859, in

Franklin county, Va.

Thomas, congressman, was born Brunswick, Va. In 1793-99 and 1801-05 he was a representative from Virginia to the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth congresses. He died in 1812 in Brunswick, Va. Claiborne, Thomas, congressman, was bom in Brunswick, Va. In 1817-19 he was a representative from Tennessee to the fifteenth congress. He died in Bmnswick, Va. Claiborne, Thomas, soldier, was born in Tennessee. In 1846 he was a second lieutenant in the mounted rifles; became first lieutenant in 1847; and attained the rank of captain in 1853. He served with distinction in the Mexican war; and in 1847 was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Huamantla, Mexico. He resigned from the United States army; and in 1861-65 served as a colonel in the confederate states army. Claiborne, William, statesman, was bom about 1589 in England. He died about 1676 Claiborne,

in

in Virginia.

Claiborne, William Charles Cole, lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born in 1775 in Sussex county,

jurist,

Va.

He was

territorial

the only governor of

Louisana in 1804-12; and in 1812-16 was first governor of the state.

of the of law

He was

judge

supreme court and equity in

Tennessee. In 17971801 he was a representative from Tennessee to the fifth and sixth congresses. In 1803-05 he was governor of the Mississippi territory. In 1803