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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Benjamin, educator, college presi7, 1858, in Provo City, Utah. In 1873-82 he was a traveling missionary in the Sandwich Islands; and in 1883-86 was president of the Young men's mutual improvement association of Utah. He has been an instructor and vice-president Cluff,

dent,

was born Feb.

of the

Brigham Young academy; and

since 1892 has been president of that institution. Clunie, Thomas Jefferson, lawyer, congressman, was born March 35, 1852, in St. John's Newfoundland. special act of the California legislature allowing him to prac-

A

tice

when he was

eighteen years old.

He

elected to the legislature in 1875; and appointed brigadier-general of the fourth brigade of the National guard of California in 1876. He was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1884. He served one term in the state senate. In 1889-91 he was a representative from California to the fifty-first congress as a democrat. Cluseret, Gustave Paul, soldier, author, was born June 13, 1823, in France. He served in the 'civil war; and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1862. He was the author of Mexico and the Solidarity of Nations. He died Aug. 23, 1900. Clute, Henry Alson, farmer, merchant, soldier, statesman, was born March 24, 1840, in Wayne county, N.Y. His ancestors settled on the Hudson river soon after the settlement of New York. During the civil war he served for three years in the second Missouri cavalry or Merrill Horse. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature from Marshall.

was was

Clute,

Willard

Nelson,

curator,

author,

was born Feb. 26, 1869, in Painted Post, N. Y. He was editor and publisher of the Pern Bulletin; and founder of the Linnaean fern chapter.

He

is

the author of a Flora of the

Upper Susquehanna Valley. Clyde, John Cunningham, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 22, 1841, in White Deer Valley, Pa. Since 1879 he has been pastor at Bloomsburg, N.J. He is the author of History of the Irish Settlement of Pennsylvania; Reminiscences of the Irish Settlement; Life of Professor James H. Coffin; Scientific Temper and Christian The Thought; and History of the Churches of

Newton Presbytery. Cljoner, Albert, farmer, poet, was bom Deo. 10, 1827, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He was the author of Echoes of the Woods, a volume of poems. He died in 1897 in Mor-

Iowa. Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria Dietz, poet, was born in ]856 in New York City. She was once an actress; and for some time was president of the Sorosis. She is the author of The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of ley,

Time; and The Triumph of

Life.

Clymer, George, signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1739 in Phila-

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delphia, Pa. He was one of the first continental treasurers; and in 1776-78 and 178083 he was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress, and signed the declaration of independence. In 1789-91 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to

the tfie

first

He was also a member of which formed the federal

congress.

convention

and signed that instrument. In 1791 he was placed at the head of the excise department in Pennsylvania; and in 1796 was sent to Georgia to negotiate a treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He was afterward president of the Philadelphia

constitution,

of the Academy of fine arts. He died Jan. 23, 1813, in Morrisville, Pa. Clyde, Thomas Edward, soldier, treasurer, banker, was born Aug. 17, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated in the public and high schools of Chester, Pa. In 1890 he was

bank and

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^H

appointed adjutant of the sixth infantry in the Pennsylvania national guard became major in 1893 ; and he

made "^^^M ^^^ ^^^ colonel in

lieutenant1898, serv-

ing as such during the Spanish- American war. In 1878 he became a bank clerk; he became teller and an assistant cashier in 1886; and is now cashier of the First national bank of Chester, Pa. He is manager of the Chester clearing house association; treasurer of the Penn club ana economic league; and a member of the Spanish-American war veterans and other patriotic societies.

Clymer, George, manufacturer, inventor, in 1754 in Burks county, Pa. Among his inventions was a pump; and he also made an improved form of the Earl of Stanhope's iron press. He received a gold medal from the king of the Netherlands; and a valuable present from the emperor of Russia. He died Aug. 37, 1834, in England.

was born

Cl3Tner,

Hester,

state

senator,

congress-

man, was born Nov. 3, 1837, in Berks county. Pa. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1864-66 when he became a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. In 1873-81 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-third, forty-fourth,

and forty-sixth congresses. He died June 12, 1884, in Reading, Pa. Clymer, Meredith, physician, author, was born June 6, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1871 was professor of mental and nervous diseases in Albany medical college; surgeon in the United States volunteeers; and later was consulting physician for the Philadelphia hospital. He was the author of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecforty-fifth