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 HEIIRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. brigadier-gsneral; and commanded Fort Clinton. In 1779 he joined the expedition of General Sullivan against the Indians. He was a commissioner to adjust the boundary line

between

New York and

Pennsylvania;

was a member of the .state legislature; and a member of the convention that adopted the constitution of the United Staines. He died Dec. 22, 1812, in Little Britain, N.Y. Clinton, James G., congressman, was born in Newburgh, N.Y. In 1841-45 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses. He died in New York. Clinton, John Waterbury, journalist, publisher, historian, was born Nov. 21, 1836, in Andes, N.Y. In 1865-1901 he was editor and proprietor of the Ogle County Press; and has been president of the Illinois press association. He has been president of the Polo historical society of Polo, 111. Clinton, Josepli Jackson, clergyman, bishop, was born Oct. 3, 1823, in Philadelphia,

Pa.

He was

missionary bishop in the south

•during and after the war; and very successful in the establishment there of missions and annual conferences. He died May 25, 1881, in Atlantic City, N.J. Clinton, Robert Hall, soldier, was born in

1817 in Loudon county, Va. He served in the Mexican war; and was promoted first lieutenant. In 1854 at the close of the war he was brevetted major in the pay department at Washington, D.C. He served in the civil war; and in 1863 he attained the rank of brigadier-general. After the war he established the Columbus manufacturing company; and in 1869-79 was president.

Thomas, congressman, was born Kentucky. He was a representative in •congress from Kentucky in 1827-31 and in 1833-35. He died in Kentucky. Clitz, Henry Boynton, soldier, was bom July 4, 1824, in Sackett's Harbor, N.Y. He Clinton,

in

was made

colonel of the tenth infantry in 1869; and was placed on the retired list in 1885 at his own request, having been in the service forty years. He died Oct. 13, 1889. Clitz, John Mellen Brady, naval officer, was born Dec. 1, 1821, in Sackett's Harbor, N.Y. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1837; was promoted to rear-admiral

1880;

in

commanded

the Asiatic station;

and was placed on the

retired list in 1884. 1897, in Washington, D.C. Clodfelter, N. J., author, poet, was bom Dec. 14, 1852, in Alamo, Ind. He is known .as The Wabash Poet. He is the author of

He

died Oct.

9,

Early Vanities; and Snatched from the Poorhouse. Clopton, David, congressman, was born in 1820 in Georgia. In 1859-61 he was a representative from Alabama to the thirty-sixth congress. He resigned in February, 1861, to take part in the civil war. He died in Ala-

bama. Clopton, John, congressman, was born in In 1795-99 and 1801-16 he was a

Virginia.

45

representative from Virginia to the fourth and fifth and the seventh to the fourteeenth congresses. He died Sept. 11, 1816, in Virginia.

railroad president, was born Snyder county. Pa. Since 1895 he has been president of the Gulf and Interstate railway of Kansas. Closson, Henry Whitney, soldier, was born June 6, 1832, in Whitingham, Vt. In 1854 he was appointed second lieutenant in the first artillery; and served through the civil war as a captain. In 1896 he was retired; and in 1904 was appointed brigadier-general in the United States army. Closson, William Baxter Palmer, engraver, artist, was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Thetford, Vt. In 1880 he began engraving over his own signature for the American Art Review and for magazines. _ Close,

March

Fred

J.,

21, 1849, in

Clothier, Clarkson, merchant, was born Oct. 5, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1889 he has been a member of the firm of Strawbridge and Clothier, wholesale dry goods .

merchants. Cloud, Virginia Woodward, litterateur, author, poet, was born in Maryland. She is the author of Down Durley Lane and Other Ballads; Reed by the River; and a Way-

A

side Harp.

Clough, David Marston, lumberman, govwas born Dec. 27, 1846, in Lyme, N. H. In 1880 he was at the head of one of the largest lumber firms of Minnesota. In 1885 he was a member, and later became president of the city council of St. Paul, Minn. In 188791 he was state senator; was lieutenantgovernor in 1892 and 1894; and the twelfth governor of the state of Minnesota in 1895ernor,

99.

Clough, E. N.

0., soldier.

war he attained the rank

During the

civil

of brigadier-gen-

He died in 1900. Clough, George Lafayette, painter, artist, was born Sept. 18, 1824, in Auburn, N.Y. In 1850 he went to Europe and copied pictures in the principal galleries of the continent; and after his return he generally resided in New York City, where he found a ready sale for his paintings. He died in 1901 eral.

in

Auburn, N.Y. Clough, John E., clergyman, missionary,

was born on July county,

N.Y.

16,

1836, in

Chautauqua

He was appointed by

the

American baptist missionary union a missionary to India in 1865. During the great famine in India he rendered the government the most valuable service in distributing aid to the sufferers by the famine. Clough, Joseph Messer, soldier, was born in New Hampshire. In 1861 he became captain in the fourth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteeers. Clough, Moses T., lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 1814, in Hopldnton, N.H. He is a successful lawyer of Troy, N.Y.; and