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attorney of Essex the postmaster of Ticonderoga under the administration of General Polk; and master in chancery and supreme court commissioner of the state of

1818 he graduated from the South Carolina In 1830-33 he was a commissioner in equity of South Carolina. In 1833-35 and 1837-39 he was a representative from South Carolina to the twenty-third and twenty-

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fifth congresses.

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Clous, John Walter, soldier, was born in 1837 in Germany. He is a brigadier-general of volunteers, lieutenant colonel and deputy judge advocate general in the United States army. He was twice brevetted for gallant conduct at Gettysburg. He served on frontier and in Indian campaigns in 1868-86; served as judge advocate in many important trials and cases in 1862-86; and was appointed judge-advocate United States army in 1896. He was on the staff of Major-General Miles while in the field during the Spanish-American war. In 1902 he was retired with the rank of brigadier-general in the United States army.

Clover, B. H., farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 32, 1837, in Franklin county, Ohio. He has t ce been chosen president of the

Kansas state farmers' alliance and industrial union; and was twice vice-president of the national organization of that order.

In

1891-93 he was a representative from to the fifty-second congress. He died

Kansas in

Kansas.

Clover, Lewis, P., clergyman, painter, was born Feb. 20, 1819, in New York City. He was rector of churches in Lexington, Va.; Springfield, 111.; and elsewhere. The titles of some of his best known paintings are The Rejected Picture, The Idle Man, Repose by Moonlight, and The Phrenologist. He died Nov. 16, 1896, in New Hackensack, N.Y.

college.

Clowney, William K., lawyer, congressman, was born in Union county, S.C. He was commissioner in equity of South Carolina. In 1833-35 and 1837-39 he was a representative from South Carolina to the twenty-third and twenty-fifth congresses. He died in South Carolina. Clowry, Robert Charles, army officer, buswas born Sept. 8, 1838, in Will county, 111. During the civil war he was assistant superintendent of the United States military telegraphs in Missouri. In 1865 he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel. In 1885 he became vice-president of the Western union telegraph company; and in 1902 he became president. iness president,

Cloyd, Augustus Davis, physician, surgeon, medical director, was born Feb. 17, 1860, in Howard county. Mo. He was educated at Central college of Fayette, Mo.,

and

in 1886 graduated from the Missouri medical college of St. Louis, Mo. He has attained success in the practice of his profession; and since 1898 has been sovereign physician or supreme medical director of the Woodmen of the world, the second largest fraternal beneficiary organization in America.

Henry Stephen, journalist, clergystate senator, was born June 21, 1827, in Colchester, England. He came to America Clubb,

man

Samuel Travers, journalist, auwas born Aug. 13, 1859, in London, England. Since 1894 he has been managing

Clover, thor, poet,

in 1863. In 1862-66 he was assistant quartermaster, with rank of captain, in the United States volunteer service. In 187374 he was a state senator in the Michi-

editor of the Chicago Evening Post. In 1880 he began his newspaper career by making a trip around the world. He is the author of Paul Traver's Adventures; and Poems and Stories of

Western

Life.

Clow, James Beach, manufacturer, founder, was born March 17, 1832, in North Sewickley, Pa. He served in the civil war and was commissioned captain. In 1865 he began the manufacture of iron pipe in Pittsburg, Pa.; and in 1875 continued that business in Chicago, 111. In 1878 he established the firm of James B. Clow and son, which was incorporated in 1894 as James B. Clow and son, of which he is president. Clowes, George R., soldier, manufacturer,

was born June

17, 1842, in Clinton, N.Y. He enlisted in the civil war; and attained the rank of sergeant-major in the forty-seventh regiment New York volunteer infantry. He was extensively engaged in the manufacture of iron tubes. In 1894 he was elected president of the Waterbury board of trade. Clowney, William K., lawyer, congressman, was bom in Union county, S.C. In

gan legislature; and in the latter year was also secretary of the constitutional convention of Michigan. He

then became editor and owner of the Grand Haven Herald, which he founded in 1869. In 1876 he was called to the pastorate of the Bible christian church of Philadelphia; became president of the Vegetarian society of America in 1888; and since 1889 has been editor of Pood, Home and Garden, which was consolidated with the Vegetarian Magazine in 1900.

Cluett, George B., manufacturer, was bom 21, 1838, in England. At the age of fif-

Nov.

teen years he entered the employ of Maulin and Bigelow, manufacturers of collars. In 1903 he became president of the Cluett

Peabody company, manufacturer of collars and cuffs of Troy, N.Y.

shirts,