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Clark, Walter, soldier, lawyer, jurist, auwas born Aug. 19, 1846, in Halifax county, N.C. He entered the confederate service in the spring of 1861; and at seventeen years of age had risen to be lieutenant-colonel. In 1885 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1889 judge of the supreme court of North Carolina, receiving the re-election to the same office in 1894; and is

1839, near Connellsville, Pa. He street railways of Butte, Mont.; and is president of the United Verde copper company of Arizona. In 1884 and 1889 he was president of the constitutional convention; and served as a major of Butte battalion. In 1899 he became a member of the United States senate for the terms ending in 1907. Clark, William Adolphus, author, poet, was born Dec. 2, 1825, in New Orleans, La. He received his education in various institutions; and he attended the old Boston Latin school, and the Dane law school of Cambridge, Mass. At the age of eighteen he went as supercargo's clerk to Manila and



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the author of several law books; editor North Carolina State Records, in ten volumes; Histories of North Carolina Regiments, in three volumes; and translated Private Life of Napoleon, in three volumes. Clark, William, congressman, cabinet officer, was born in Dauphin, Pa. In 1828 he was appointed treasurer of the United States; and in 1833-37 he was a representais

from Pennsylvania to the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses. He died April 28, 1841, in Dauchin county. Pa.

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Clark, William, lawyer, jurist. In 1864 he justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania; and in 1703-05 was

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Clark, William, soldier, explorer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born on Aug. 1, 1770, in Virginia. In 1800 he was appointed chief justice of the territory of Indiana. In 1799-1801 he was a representative of the sixth congress. He was associated with Lewis, and conducted the first exploring expedition across the American continent to the Columbia river, and gave the names of Lewis and Clark to the two tributaries of that river.

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to brigadier-general of 1812; and was governor of Missouri territory in 1813-30. He died Sept. 1, 1838, in St. Louis, Mo. Clark, William, manufacturer, was bom in 1841 in Scotland. In 1860 he joined his brother, George A. Clark, in the general agency of the Clark threads in

America. In 1864 the brothers started a cotton thread factory in Newark, being identified with the Passaic thread company from the start. In 1873 William Clark rose to seniority in the house.

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China; and two years later became a merchant in New Orleans, La. He was a miner in southern California in 1850; and in 1854 published his first work. He is the author of a volume of select poems entitled Intellectual People; The Learned World; General Grant, or the Star of Liberty and Union; Our Modern Athens, or Who is First; The Lost Love and Other Poems; The Brutus of the South. Clark, William Arthur, educator, physilogist, was born May 23, 1853, in Manchester, Ohio. He has been superintendent of various public schools, and for two years had charge of the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphan home schools of Xenia, Ohio; was professor of mathematics in the National normal university; and professor of psychology in the Nebraska normal school. He is a member of the Nebraska academy of science and one of its board of directors. His work in the normal school has been principally in psychology and the history of education. Clark, William Braddock, insurance president, was born June 29, 1841, in Hartford, Conn. He attended the New Briton high school; and subsequently took a course at Gallup's College Green school. He then entered his father's newspaper office; in 1857 accepted a position with the Phoenix insurance company; and in six years became its secretary. In 1867 he was chosen assistant secretary of the Aetna insurance company, which position he filled for twenty-one years; when the death of the president advanced him to the vice-presidency. Since 1892 he has been president of this colossal enterprise; and has since administered its affairs with the greatest ability. It is the largest insurance company in the United States, beginning its career in 1819; and now has offices in all the principal cities of the Union. The Aetna was the first company that issued a fire insurance policy in Chicago, beginning there in 1834. He is a director in the Trav-