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Scott, lawyer, congressman, in Beaufort county, N.C. He was a member of the state legislature in 1834; and was solicitor for the state in 1842. In

Clark,

was born

1845-47 he was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-ninth congress; and was at one time acting governor of the state. He died April 14, 1874, in Tarborough, N.C. Clark, Henry Toole, state senator, governor, was born in 1808. He was state senator in 1850-61; and in 1861 was appointed governor of North Carolina. He died April 14,

the twelfth governor of Kentucky in 1836-37. He died Sept. 27, 1839, in Frankfort, Ky. Clark, James, farmer, stockman, was born Nov. 20, 1838, near Springfield, Ohio. For over a quarter of a, century continuously he has been township treasurer; and for ten years & member of the

county board of agriculture. He has been a successful breeder of trotting horses, some of which have sold as high as twenty thousand dollars each; and he bred and sold the fastest yearling trotter in the world to

1874. Clark,

Horace Francis, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1815, in Southbury, Conn. In 1857-61 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died June 19, 1873. Clark, Horace Spencer, soldier, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1840, in Huntsburg, Ohio. During the civil war he attained the rank of first lieutenant. He was judge of Mattoon city court; in 1880-84 he

was a member of the Illinois state senate; and in 1891 was commander grand army of the republic for Illinois. Clark, Imogen, litterateur,

bom

author,

was

New York

City. She is the author of The Victory of Ezry Gardner; Will Shakespeare's Little Lad; The Heresy of in

Parson Medlicott; God's Puppets; and other works. Clark, Isaac, soldier, jurist, was born in

He was

a soldier of the revolution; was a member of the constitutional convention and for many years was chief judge of the Vermont county court. He became colonel of the eleventh United States infantry in 1812; and in 1813 commanded a successful expedition against Massequoi, Canada. He died Jan. 31, 1822, in Castleton, Vt. Clark, J. N., educator, college president. He is a noted educator of Kansas; and is president of the Central normal college at Great Bend, Kan. Clark, J. Scott, educator, author, was bom Sept. 33,' 1854, in Copenhagen, N.Y. Since 1892 he has been professor of English language at Northwestern university of, Evans ton. 111. He is the author of A Practical Rhetoric; The Art of Reading Aloud; and A Study of English Prose Writers. Clark, James, governor. In 1846 he was territorial governor of Iowa. CUirk, James, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in 1779 in Bedford county, Va. He was several times a member of the state legislature; and in 1810 was appointed judge of the court of appeals. In 1813-16 and 1835-31 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first congresses; in 1817-24 was judge of the circuit court. In 1833 he was state senator and chosen speaker; and was 1749.

ilr. Frank Rockefeller, vice-president of the Standard oil company. He resides in New Moorefield, Ohio. Clark, James, soldier, was bom in July, 1730. He was a captain in Putnam's regiment; and was present at Bunker Hill. He was made lieutenant-colonel of Huntington's regiment in 1775; and took part in the battles at Harlem Heights and White Plains in 1776. He died Dec. 39, 1836, in Lebanon,

Conn. Clark,

James

G.,

educator,

author,

was

born in Virginia. Since 1873 he has been professor of mathematics at the William Jewell college. He is the author of The Calculus, a textbook. Clark,

James Gowdy,

lecturer, poet,

was

born -June 28, 1839, in Constantia, N.Y. At the age of twenty-one he drifted into the concert field; and became noted as a poet, singer and composer. He is chiefly known as the author of Leona;



Marion

Moore

Infinite

Mother;



The The

Mountain Tree; The Mount of the Holy Cross; and the Evergreen Mountains Old

of Life. He died Sept. 17, 1897, in Pasadena, Cal.

Clark, James Henry, physician, author, was born June 23, 1814, -in Livingston, N.Y. He was the author of History of the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and Hearing,

How

Preserved; How Lost; Medical Topography of Newark; and The Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex District, 1666-1866.

He

March 6, 1869, in Montclair, N.J. James W., state senator, congressman, was bom March 2, 1781, in Bertie county, N.C. He was a presidential elector died

Clark,

member of the state senate. In 1815-17 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fourteenth congress. He died in January, 1844, in Washington, D.C.

in 1812; three years a