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Clarke, John Sleeper, actor, was born Sept. 1833, in Baltimore, Md. His professional debut was made as Frank Hardy in Paul Pry at the Howard athenseum of Boston in 1851. In 1867 he went to reside in London, England. He played Toodles, which is perhaps his finest creation, for two hundred nights without interruption when it was first introduced at the Strand theater of London, England. He died in 1899 in London, England. Clarke, John Thomas, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Putnam county, Ga. He served as judge of the superior courts of the Pataula circuit in Georgia in 1863; and was re-elected in 1883. In 1878 he was a member of the Georgia state senate. He died July 22, 1889, in Smithville, Ga. Clarke, John Vaughn, banker, financier, was born Oct. 15, 1863, in Chicago, 111. In 1882 he entered the Hibernian bank of Chicago, 111.; and in 1892 became its president. Clarke, Joseph, lawyer, jurist. In 1751-61 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island. Clarke, Joseph Ignatius Constantine, journalist, author, was born July 31, 1846, in Ireland. In 1883-95 he was managing editor of the New York Morning Journal; and since 1898 has been editor of the Criterion. He is the author of the dramas entitled Heartsease; The First Violin; Her Majesty; and 3,

Robert Emmet. Clarke, Joseph Morrisonj clergyman, author, was bom Oct. 6, 1827, in Bethany, Conn. He was the author of Letters on Christian Union; and Annual Addresses. He died Nov. 30, 1899, in Syracuse, N.Y. Clarke, Lorenzo Mason, clergyman, theologian, wag bom in 1859 in Canandaigua, N.y. He received the degrees of A.B. and D. T>. from Amherst college; aad in 1885 graduated from the Auburn theological seminary. In 1885-89 he was pastor of the First presbyterian church at Walcott, N.Y.; in 188997 of the Park Central presbyterian church at Syracuse, N.Y. and since 1897 of the First presbyterian church at Brooklyn, N.Y. He is president of the Council of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences. Clarke, McDonald, author, poet, was bom June 18, 1798, in Bath, Maine. He was an

eccentric writer; and was commonly styled the mad poet. He was the author of Poems Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a

Temperance Poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; and Review of the Eve of Eternity. He died March 5, 1842.

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New York City. Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayaid Devereux, author, poet, was born about 1822 in Raleigh, N.C. She was the author of Reminiscences of Cuba ; Mosses from a Rolling Stone Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; and Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse. She died in 1886 in Raleigh, N.C. in



H. G., author, poet, was bom 1835, in Bristol, R.I. She was the author of Effie; Fairy Queen of Dolls;

Mary

Clarke,

March

28,

Prince PuBS-in-Boots; Golden Hair and Her Knight of the Bean Stalk in the Enchanted Forest; and other works. She died May 31, 1892, in Cambridge, Mass.

Matthew

St. Clair, journalist, govauthor, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1843-45 he was sixth auditor of the treasury. He was the publisher of the great work called the American Archives, edited by Peter Force. He died in Washington, D.C.

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Clarke, Newman S., soldier, was bom in Connecticut. He commanded a brigade in Mexico in 1847; and received the brevet of brigadier-general for gallant conduct at the siege of Vera Cmz. He died Oct. 17, 1860, in San Francisco, Cal.

Clarke, Reader Wright, state legislator, congressman, was born on May 18, 1812, in Bethel, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; was a delegate in 1844 to the Baltimore convention; and was a presidential elector at the ensuing election. In 1865-69 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. In 1869 he was appointed third auditor of the treasury; and was afterward a collector of internal revenue in Ohio. He died

May

23, 1872, in Ohio.

Clarke, Rebecca Sophia, litterateur, author, was bom Feb. 22, 1833, in Norridgewook, Maine. She was a popular writer of stories for children and young people. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books ; Dotty Dimple Series; Flyaway and Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend's

Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset ; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor's Daughter; Our Helen; and Pauline Wyman. She died in 1906 in Boston, Mass. Clarke, Richard, merchant, was born In 1708. He became a merchant in Boston, Mass.; and he and his sons were consignees of part of the tea that was thrown overboard by the tea party in Boston Harbor in December, 1773. He died in 1795 in England. Clarke, Richard Floyd, lawyer, author, was Oct. 14, 1859, in Columbus, S.C. In 1882 he was admitted, to the bar; and practiced his profession in New York City. He is the author of The Science of Law and Law-mak-

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Clarke, Richard H., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1843, in Marengo county, Ala. He served as a lieutenant in the first battalion of Alabama artillery. He was prosecuting attorney for "Marengo county in 1872-76 ; and was prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial circuit in 1876-77. In 1889-97 he was a representative to the fiftyfirst,

fifty-second, fifty-third

congresses as a democrat.

and fifty-fourth