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the Country club as well as several business organizations.

Clarke, William Horatio, organist, musician, composer, was born March 8, 1840, in Newton, Mass. He was educated in the public and high schools of Dedham, Mass. From 1856 he was an organist of Boston, Annapolis, Toronto and Rochester; and in 1893 retired from professional life.

He

is

a

member

of the society of arts instiMassachusetts technology tute of and in 1896-1906 was editor of the organ deft -J partment of the Musician. He is the author of New Method for Reed Organs; Harmonic Organ School; Organ Collection; Short Voluntaries; Anthems and Responses; Short Organ Gems; The Organists' Retrospect Cheerful Philosophy for Thoughtful Invalids; The Art of Transparent Water Coloring; Short Service Preludes; Valuable Organ Information; an J Artistic

Method

for

Reed Organs.

Clarke, William Newton, theologian, author, was born Dec. 3, 1841, in Cazenoyia, N.Y. Since 1890 he has been professor of christian, theology in Colgate university. He is the author of Outline of Christian Theology; and several other theological works. Clarkson, Floyd, soldier, banker, was bom Feb. 37, 1831, in New York City. He served through the civil war; and in 1866 was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services. He was a trustee of the Union dime savings bank of New York City; and president of the Riverside bank. He "died Jan. 2, 1894, in New York City. Clarkson, James Sullivan, journalist, statesman, was born on May 17, 1842, in Brookville, Ind. He has been first assistant general postmaster ~ ^ and chairman of republican national committee. He was then made chairman of the republican state com-

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mittee

when but twen-

tj'-four years

of age;

and when twenty-five

was

offered the Swiss mission by President Grant. In" 1871-77 he was appointed postmaster at Des Moines, Iowa. He began life as a school teacher; learned the printing business and worked on the Daily State Register of Des Moines, of which he became foreman, reporter, night editor, city editor and editor-in-chief. This publication, with his brother, he purchased in 1870, which he has made the leading paper of Iowa. He is president of the repub:

lican league of the United States, and one of the foremost political leaders in America.

Clarkson,

was born

Matthew,

lawyer,

Oct. 17, 1758, in

New

statesman, York. He

served in the revolutionary war; and attained the rank of major-general. He was a member of the New York state legislature. For many years he was president of the bank of New York. He died April 25, 1825, in

New York

City.

was Clarkson, Matthew, congressman, born in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1785-86 he was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress. He died in Pennsylvania. Clarkson, Richard Perkinson, soldier, jourwas born in 1840 in Brookville, Ind. He was the editor and principal owner of the Iowa State Register. He served in the union army throughout the civil war; and spent several months in a confederate prison. With his father and brother he bought the Iowa State Register, of which he subsequently became editor and proprietor. He died Oct. 3, 1905, in Des Moines, Iowa. nalist,

Clarkson, Robert Harper, clergyman, bishwas born Nov. 19, 1826, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was consecrated protestant episcopal missionary bishop of Nebraska and Dakota in 1865; and three years later, when Nebraska was organized as a diocese and admitted into union with the general convention, he was chosen to be the bishop of the new diocese. He died March 10, 1884, In op, author,

Omaha, Neb. Clarkson, Thaddeus Stevens, soldier, public official, was born April 26, 1840, in Gettysburg, Pa. In 1861-65 he served as a private in the first regiment Illinois volunteeers to major in the third Arkansas cavalry United States volunteeers. He moved to Omaha in 1866; and in 1896-99 was commander-in-chief of the grand army of the republic. He was postmaster of Omaha in 1890-95. Clary, Joseph Monroe, educator, lawyer, college president, author, 1861, in Saline county. has been president of

was 111.

bom

July

28,

Since 1900 he

Greer college of Hoopeston, 111. He is the author of Our Nation's History and Song. Clary, Robert Emmet, soldier, was born on March 21, 1805, in Ashfield, Mass. He

served in the Florida war of 1840-41; and at various posts till the civil war. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for his services during the civil war. In 1867-69 he served as depot quartermaster at Boston, Mass. He died Jan. 19, 1890, in Washington, D.C. Clason, Isaac Starr, educator, actor, auwas born in 1789 in New York. He was the author of Horace in New York, a collection of poems full of the New York gossip of the day. He died in 1834 in London, England. thor, poet,