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ton, near San Francisco, Cal. He accompanied the total-eclipse expedition to Spain; in 1870; and also the similar expedition to Wyoming in 1878. As an independent observer he discovered fourteen intricate double stars, including the companion to Sirius, for

which the Lalande gold medal was awarded him by the French academy of sciences in 1862. He died June 9, 1897 in Cambridge, Mass. Clark, Ambrose W., journalist, diplomat, congressman, was born Feb. 19, 1810, near Cooperstown, N.Y. For sixteen years he published the Northern New York Journal. In 1861-05 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh and the thirtyeighth congresses, in 1865 he was appointed consul at Valparaiso. Clark, Amos, banker, state senator, congressman ,was born Nov. 8, 1837, in Westfield, N.Y. In 1866-69 he was a state senator from Elizabeth, N.J.; was an elector in 1873; and in 1873-75 he was a representative to the forty-third congress as a republican. Clark, Ansel Russell, soldier, educator, merchant, lawyer, jurist, was born April 10, 1842, in Huntsburg, Ohio. In 1860 he moved to Iowa City; and served throughout the civil war in the second Iowa cavalry. He then for six years was engaged as a school teacher, merchant and farmer at Mattoon, 111. Since 1873 he has practiced law in Sterling, Kan.; and for thirteen years he was judge of the twentieth judicial district. Clark, Arthur Wellington, physician, surgeon, genealogist, was born Dec. 7, 1859, in Lawrence, Mass. He was a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in the College of physicians and surgeons of Boston. He is the author of a Genealogy of the Houghton

Family. Clark,

Champ, lawyer,

lecturer, congress-

man, author, was born March 7, 1850, near Lawrenceburg, Ky. In 1873 he graduated from the Bethany college, W. Va.; and be-

came president of the college Marshall of Huntington, W. Va. He has been city attorney of Louisiana and Mo.

Bowling

Green, prosecuting attorney of Pike county, Mo.; and he has served as special judge of the Louisiana court of



common

pleas

of

ilissouri. He was a member of the Missouri state legislature. In 1893-95 and 1897-1911

he

was a representative from Missouri

to the

fifty-sev-

fifty-third, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth

enth,

and

sixty-first congresses as a democrat. In 1891 he Avas a delegate to the Trans-Missis-

sippi congress at Denver, and was chairman of the Missouri delegation and vice-president.

Billy James, reformer, legislator, 4, 1778, in Northampton, Mass. In 1808 organized what is claimed to have been the first temperance society in

Clark,

was born Jan.

the world, at Moreau, Saratoga county, N.Y. of the legislature from

He was a member

Saratoga county in 1821; and was a member of the electoral college in 1848. He died March 20, 1867, in Glens Falls, N.Y. Clark, Charles Amory, soldier, educator, lawyer, was born Jan. 36, 1841, in Sangerville, Maine. He was educated in the public —~ schools and at Fox-

r

croft

academy. Then

in

1856-61 he was teaching school. He was the first man to volunteer from his county in the civil war; he was successively corporal, ser-

geant and second lieutenant; and in 1862-64 served as first lieutenant and adjutant in the sixth Maine regiment. In 1864 he was

commissioned captain and assistant adjutant-general of volunteers; was twice brevetted as major and lieutenant-colonel; and received the congressional medal of honor for bravery at Bank's ford, Va. In 1866-76 he practiced law in Webster City, Iowa; and since 1876 has practiced law in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been commander of the Loyal legion for Iowa; and in 1906-07 was judge advocate-general grand army of the republic. Clark, Charles B., educator, journalist, lawyer, was bom Jan. 1, 1854, in Hubbard, Ohio. Early in life he was a successful school teacher and principal; and in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He subsequently was on the editorial staffs of different newspapers; and has published directories of several cities in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several county

and town

histories.

Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, physician, author, was born March 30, 1833, in Tinmouth, Vt. In 1851 he moved to Oswego, N.Y.; and was collector of customs in 186971. He was the author of The Commonwealth Reconstructed; and The Machine Abolished. He died in January, 1899, in Oswego, N.Y. Clark, jurist,

Charles

Dickson, soldier,

was born on

lawyer,

Oct. 14, 1847, in Laurel

Cove, Tenn. In 1864 he entered the confederate army; and served on the staff of General Dibrell; and under the command of

General Wheeler. In 1876-83 he practiced law in Manchester, Tenn.; and since 1883 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Since 1895 he has been United States district judge for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee. Clark, Charles Edgar, naval oflacer, was Aug. 10, 1843, in Bradford, Vt. He was a cadet in the naval academy when the civil

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