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 HERRI !vG&HAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. For over a quarter of a century he was a noted clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He was nominee for lieutenant-governor of Michigan; and for congressman. He for Young Peodied in Michigan. Clark, Nathaniel George, educator, author, was born Jan. 18, 1885, in Calais, Vt. He was the foreign secretary of the American board of foreign missions in 1866-96. He was the author of Elements of the English Language. He died Jan. 3, 1896, in Boxbury, Mass. Clark, Newcomb, soldier, state legislator, was born Sept. 35, 1840, in Sullivan county, N.Y. He served as major and lieutenantcolonel during the civil war in the one hundred and second United States cavalry troop; and was for some time in command of the regiment. He also had command of the fiftyfourth New York infantry; subsequently commanded a brigade; and was brevetted brigadier-general for meritorious conduct in the field. He was the first president of Wenona, now West Bay City; and in 188387 he was a member of the Michigan state

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Clark, Peyton Graves, soldier. He is a captain in the United States army. Clark, Robert, physician, congressman, was born in Washington county, N.Y. He was a member of the assembly of New York state in 1812-15; and in 1819-21 he was a representative from New York to the sixteenth congress. He died in New Yofk. Clark, Rufus A., educator, college president, was born Nov. 20, 1846, in Coffee county, Tenn. He filled the chair as professor of mathematics in Winchester normal college for ten years; and in 1889 was made president of that institution. Clark, Rufus J., educator, college president, inventor. He is a prominent educator of Kingston Springs, Tenn.; and he is acapresident of Vanderbilt preparatory demy. He invented the viola-piano; and Is now engaged perfecting the singing piano. Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, clergyman, author, was bom May 29, 1844, in Portsmouth, N.H. Since 1877 he has been rector of St. Paul's church at Detroit, Mich. He is the author of The Church in Thy House. Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 17, 1813, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a clergyman of the Reformed Dutch church of Albany. Among his more than a hundred publications are

Young Men; Heaven and Its Emblems; Life Scenes of the Messiah; Eomanism in America; The African Slave Trade and Heroes of Albany. He Lectures to Scriptural



died Aug. 9, 1886, in Nantucket, Mass. Clark, Rush, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1834, in Sohellsburg, Pa. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1860-64, serving as speaker the last two years; and was a member of the governor's staff in 1861-62. He was again

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elected to the state assembly in 1876; and in 1877-81 he was a representative from Iowa to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died April 38,- 1879 in Iowa. Clark, S. H. H., railroad president. He was president and receiver of the Union pacific railroad at Omaha, Neb. He died June 1, 1900, in Omaha, Neb. Clark, Salter S., educator and author. He graduated from Yale university. He was the author of Commercial Law, a textbook. Clark, Samuel, soldier, farmer, jurist, was born on Feb. 17, 1741, in Bedford, N.Y. He held the first court of Saratoga county, in his house; and was the first presidential elector of that district. In military life he became a general; and held the first court of common pleas and the first court of general sessions in Saratoga county, N.Y. He died Feb. 17, 1823, in East Line, N.Y. Clark, Samuel, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York in 1833-35. In 185355 he was a representative to the twentythird and thirty-third congresses. He died Oct. 3, 1870, in Kalamazoo, Mich. Clark, Samuel Adams, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1822, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1848-56 he was rector; and in 1856-75 of the church of the Advent of Philadelphia, St. John's church of Elizabeth, N. J. He was the author of Memoir of Albert W. Day, prefixed to Day's sermons; and History of St. John's Church. He died Jan. 28, 1875, in Elizabeth, N.J. Clark, Samuel Houston, farmer, inventor, was born Jan. 24, 1853, in Austin county, Texas. He is a successful farmer of Brown county, Texas; and for several terms was school trustee. He is the inventor of a very useful device for setting plows. His father, John H. Clark, was a native of Mssissippi; and for three terms was sheriff of Tishom-

ingo county. Clark, Samuel M., lawyer, journalist, congressman, was bom Oct. 11, 1842, in Van Buren county, Iowa. He enlisted as a private in company H, nineteenth Iowa infantry ,but not mustered in because of ill health. He was editor of the Keokuk Gate City for thirty-one years; and was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880. In 1895-99 he was a representative to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. He died Aug. 11, 1900, in Keokuk, Iowa. Marmaduke Dinwiddle, Clark, Samuel soldier, educator, was born Jan. 6, 1840, in West Baton Rouge, La. In 1861 he graduated from Kenyon college of Ohio. During the civil war he was a private in the Washington artillery of New Orleans, La.; and took an active part in the war. In 1868 he settled in Nashville, Tenn.; and since 1870 has been principal of the Montgomery Bell academy, of that city. Clark, Sheldon, philanthropist, author, was born Jan. 31, 1785, in Oxford, Conn. He