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been captain and quartermaster in the United States army. Clayton, Charles, surveyor, congressman, was born in 1825 in England. He was a member

of

the

state

legislature

in

1863-66;

was a member of the board of supervisors of San Francisco in 1864-69; and in 1870 was appointed surveyor of customs of the port and district of San Francisco. In 187375 he was a representative to the forty-third congress. 1885, in Oakland, Gal.

from California

He

died Oct.

4,

Clayton, Henry De Lamer, soldier, edulawyer, college president, was born March 9, 1827, in Pulaski county, Ga. He was a member of the state legislature. He entered the civil war as a colonel; and attained the ranks of brigadier-general and major-general. He was the ninth president of the university of Alabama.' He died in cator,

Alabama. Clayton, Henry DeLamar, lawyer, congressman, i-as born Feb. 10, 1857, in Barbour county, Ala. He practiced law at Clayton and Eufaula, Ala.; was elected presidential elector 1888, 1892; member national democratic committee since 1888. In 1897-1903 he was a representative to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth iifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.

Clayton, Henry Helm, meteorologist, author, was born March 13, 1861, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Since 1894 he has been meteorologist of Blue Hill meteorological observatory. He is the author of Discussions of the Cloud Observations at Blue Hill; Exploration of the Air by Means of Kites; and The

Lawrence Tornado. Clayton, John, botanist, author, was born in 1686 in England. His father was attorney-general of Virginia. He left two volumes of manuscript almost ready for the press, and marginal notes and directions for the engraver in preparing the plates for the work. He died Dec. 15, 1773, in Virginia. Clayton, John Middleton, lawyer, jurist. United States senator, was bom July 24, 1796, in Sussex county, Del. He was elected the state legislature; and subsequently secretary of the state of Delaware. In 182937, 1845-49 and 1853-57 he was United States senator. He was appointed chief justice of Delaware. In 1849-50 he was secretary of' state. During this period he negotiated the famous Clayton-B'ulwer treaty. He died Nov. 9, 1856, in Dover, Del. Clayton, John Middleton, lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 13, 1840, in Delaware county, Ga. He received a common school education, studied at Barton's seminary in Village Green, Pa., and then read law. He was admitted to the bar, and took up the practice of his profession. In 1870-72 he was a member of the state assembly; and a member of the Arkansas state senate in

1872-74. He was selected sheriff of the county in 1876, and was re-elected five times in succession. In 1888 he was the repilblioan candidate for congress. In a contest for the seat he was shot by an unknown assassin. He died Jan. 29, 1889, in Plummerville, Ark.

Clayton, Joseph Culbertson, lawyer, pubauthor, was born June 16, 1839, in Smithfield, Va. Since 1863 he has been engaged in the practice of law. During the civil war he served in the national rittes, which was the first company in the United States sworn in under Lincoln's first call for volunteers. He still practices law in New York City. He is the author of The True Constitution; and other works. licist,

Clayton, Joshua, United States senator, governor, was born in Delaware. He was the first governor of Delaware in 1789-96; and in 1798 he was United States senator. He died Aug. 11, 1798, in Middletown, Del. Clayton, Powell, soldier, diplomat, railroad president. United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1833, in Bethel, Pa. He entered the union army in Kansas; and

was promoted

to brigadier-general in 1864. settled in Arkansas at the close of the war as a planter; was the ninth governor in 1868-72; and in 1871-77 he was United States senator. Since 1888 he has been president of the Eureka Springs railway. He was United States ambassador to Mexico.

He

Clayton, Thomas, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was born March 9,

1778, in Newcastle, Del.

In 1815-17 he

was a representative from Delaware to the fourteenth congress. In 1823-27 and 1837-47 he was United States senator. He was, at different periods a member of the Delaware legislature, chief justice of the court of common pleas, and of the superior court. He died Aug. 21, 1854, in Newcastle, Del.

Clayton, Mrs. teur, author,

Victoria

Virginia,

littera-

was born June 10, 1832, near was educated at Bishop

Charleston, S.C. She Elliott's college,

now

called Christ's college,

near Macon, Ga. She has had the honor of having at one time two sons in the United States congress, one from New York and one from Alabama. She is the author of White and Black Under the Old Regime, the object of this book being to show that the people of the south were christians as well as slaveholders.

Clayton, 'William Henry Harrison, lawyer, 1897 he has been judge of the United States district court for the middle district of the Indian territory. Cla3rtor, Graham, lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 27, 1853, in Bedford county, Va. For many years he taught school; then engaged in the practice of law at Bedford City, la.; and in 1895 he was elected the commonwealth's attorney. He is the author of two novels of southern life; and a book of pastoral poems. jurist. Since