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Cleland,

May

Thomas, clergyman, author, was

Fairfax county, Va. He was the author of Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; and Unitarianism Unmasked. He died Jan. 31, 185i5, in Fairfax county, Va. Clemens, Jeremiah, soldier, United States senator, author, was born Dec. 28, 1814, in Huntsville, Ala. In 1830-41 he was elected a member of the Alabama state legislature; in 1842 raised a company of volunteer troops and went to Texas, having been appointed lieutenant-colonel; and was subsequently appointed to the same office in the regular army. In 1843 and 1844 he was again elected to the Alabama legislature; in 1844 was a, presidential elector; and in 1848 was appointed governor of the civil and military department of purchase in Mexico, which position he held until the close of the war. In 1849-53 he was United States senator. He was the author of Bernard Lile; Mustang Gray; The Rivals; and Tobias Wilson. He died May 21, 1865, in

born

32, 1778, in

Huntsville, Ala.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, journalist, was bom Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Mo. He is a celebrated humorist, who rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humorous travels, which still remains his most popular book. He is the author of A Tramp author,

Abroad; Roughing

Jumping Frog;

It;

Tom

Sawyer; The

on

the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; Life

Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd'nhead Wilson; The American Claimant; The Prince and the Pauper; and Joan of Arc; and other works. Clemens, Sherrard, lawyer, congressman, was born April 28, 1826, in Wheeling, Va. In 1852-53 and 1857-61 he was a representative to the thirty-second, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. Clemens, William Montgomery, journalist, author, was bom Jan. 16, 1860, in Paris, Ohio. He is a journalist of Cleveland, Ohio; and the author of Life and Times of John Brown The Nemesis of Passion ; The House of a Hundred Doors; and The Life of Ad;

miral Dewey. Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine, author,

was

born Aug. 28, 1834, in St. Louis, Mo. She is the wife of Edwin Waters. She is the author of Simple Story of the Orient; Legendary and Mythological Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works; Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, in conjunction with Laurence Hutton; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; History of Egypt; also three Hand-Books of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; also Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints; and Stories of Art

and Artists.

Clement, Clay, actor, playwright, author, was bom Dec. 21, 1863, in Woodford county, III. Since 1883 he has been an actor and

He is the author of A Southern Gentleman; and The New Domination. Clement, Ernest Wilson, educator, historian, author, was born Feb. 21, 1860, in Du-

playwright.

buque, Iowa. In 1868-75 he attended the Chicago grammar and high schools. In 1873-76 he attended the preparadepartment of tory the university of Chicago; and subsequently he graduated that institution the degree of

from with,

A3.

and A.M. In 1881-83 he was a teacher in Atlanta baptist the seminary; in 1882-84 at the Burlington collegiate institute of Iowa; and in 1884-87 at the Wayland academy of Beaver Dam, Wis. In 1887-91 he was a teacher in the high school of Mito, Japan; and since 1894 has been principal of the Duncan academy at Tokyo, Japan. In 1896-1900 he was librarian of the Asiatic society of Japan; and since 1907 has been its recording secretary. Since 1899 he has been editor of the Japan Evangelist. He is the author of A Handbook of Modern Japan; Japanese Floral Calendar; Christianity in Modem Japan; Hildreth's Japan as It Was and Is; and other works. Clement, John, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 8, 1818, in Haddonfield, N.J. He was a member of the council of west Jersey proprietors. When he resigned in 1851 his son succeeded him in the council, becoming president in 1885. The son was also a surveyor, and father and son were associated in work for many years, thus gaining an exceptional familiarity with the history of land titles in the state. In 1854-64 he was a judge of the Camden county courts; and in 1864-94 was lay judge of the New Jersey court of errors and appeals. He died Aug. 15, 1894, in Haddonfield, N.J.

Clement, Stephen

was born Feb.

M., financier, 36, 1825, in Manius,

banker, N.Y. He

received his education in the public schools of his native state. In

1849 he opened a general store in

Durham-

N.Y.; and in 1850-55 had a store in Fredonia, N.Y. He organized the Fredonia ville,

bank; was its active manager; and was also cashier in 1867; when he became president. In 1869 he became cashier and manager of the Marine bank of Buffalo, N.Y.; and in 1881 became its president. He was also president of, the Merchant's national bank of Dunkirk, N.Y He died in 1852 in Buffalo, N.Y.