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Clardy, John Daniel, farmer, physician, stockraiser, congressman, was born on Aug. 30, 1828, in Smith county, Tenn. In 1831 he moved with his parents to Christian coun-

a signer of the declaration of independence. In 1791-94 he was a representative from New Jersey to the second and third congresses. He was called the father of the paper currency in the United States. He died

Ky. He was then

Sept. 15, 1794, in Rahway, N.J. Clark, Addison, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Dec. 11, 1842, in Titus county, Texas. He is president of the Add Ean university of Waco, Texas. Clark, Alexander, clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1S34, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was a raethodist protestant clergyman of Pittsburg; and in 1870 became editor of the Methodist Recorder. He was the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Set Freedman;

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to represent Christian county in the constitutional convention in 1890. He elected

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was a representative to the fifty-fourth and fifty-flfth congresses as a democrat; and served on several important committees. Clardy, Martin Linn, lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1844, in St. Genevieve county. Mo. In 1879-89 he was a representative from' Missouri to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. He is a successful lawyer of Springfield, Mo. Clare, Ada, actress, author, was born about 1835 in the southern states. She made her debut as an actress at the academy of music of New York City in 1855 as Ophelia in Hamlet; but soon became better known as a writer than as an actress. She was the author of a volume entitled Only a Woman's Heart. She died March 4, 1874. Clare, Israel Smith, historian, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Lancaster county. Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of his own county, and also at-

tended the State Nor-

mal school of ville.

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Pa. In his earlier

years he was engaged in educational work; consequently gave his attention mainly to pursuits at literary Lancaster, Pa., which city is still his place of residence. He is the author of the following works; Illustrated Universal History, published in 1876; Complete Historical Compendium, published in 1884; and Library of Universal History, eight volumes, published in 1890. He is also the author of several smaller works; and many articles on historical and foreign political subjects in the newspapers. In 1900 appeared his History of the Anglo-Boer war. He is now historical editor of Cram's Magazine. Clark, Abraham, signer of the declaration of independence, was born on Feb. 15, 1725, near Elizabethtown, N.J. He was sheriff and clerk of the colonel assembly; and in 1776-82 and 1787-88 he was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress ; and

School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; and Ripples on the River, a collection of poems. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia. Clark, Alonzo, educator, lecturer, physician, author, was born on March 1, 1807, in Chester, Mass. In 1849-55 he was professor of physiology and pathology in the College of physicians and surgeons of New York City; and in 1861 was made president of tne medical board of St. Luke's hospital. He was the author of a number of articles on medical subjects. He died Sept. 13, 1887, in New

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City. Clark, Alonzo Howard, naturalist, author, was born April 13, 1850, in Boston, Mass. He is a naturalist in the United States national miiseum at Washington; and since 1881, its editor. He is the author of Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; The History of the Mackeral Fishery; and Food Industries of the World, in Paris Reports. Clark, Alvah Augustus, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lebanon, N.J. He received a thorough education in the public schools and from private institutions. He became a couneellor-at-law in 1867; and has attained success in his chosen profession at Somerville, N.J. He has been a commissioner of the New Jersey Singing Fund. In 1877-81 he was a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. Clark, Alvan, manufacturer, optician, was bom March 8, 1804, in Ashfield, Mass. He was the first person in the United States to overcome the difficulties of the achromatic lens; and achieved such skill that the most important telescopes of modern times have been made in his factory in Cambridge. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Cambridgeport,

Mass.

Graham, astronomer, invenwas bom July 10, 1833, in Fall River Mass. He was a world-renowned telescope Clark, Alvan

tor,

maker; and in 1886 the thirty-six inch refractor, the largest in the world, was made for the Lick observatory on Mount Hamil-