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 120 CLARK. CLARK. board of aldermen, the latter year being elected as a member of the state Senate. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Gover- nor Banks, and served on the personal staff of Governor Andrew, with title of lieut.-colonel. He has been a director of public institutions, and a trustee of the public library. He is a member of Revere Lodge, and has been a member of the Boston Encamp- ment. He is a member of the Algonquin, St. Botolph and Boston Art clubs, and of the Boston Athletic Association. He delivered the triennial address be- fore the Massachusetts Charitable Me- chanic Association in 1859. In early life Mr. Clapp gave attention to the drama, and wrote the record of the Boston stage, and also the article on " The Drama in Boston " in the " Memorial History of Bos- ton " (Osgood & Co.). He is now,and has been for severalyears, president of the New England Associated Press. Mr. Clapp possesses an excellent and most valuable library of general reference books, which, with his intimate knowledge of localities, and his long association with the leading citizens of Boston, render him one well qualified to sit in kindly judg- ment on their affairs, and to intelligently indicate the road to social success and commercial prosperity. CLARK, AUGUSTUS NlNIAN, son of Ninian and Sally (Warner) Clark, was born in Hancock, Hillsborough county, N. H., March 23, 1811. All his knowledge of the ordinary school curriculum was obtained in the common district school of his native town. From seventeen years of age until the expiration of his minority, he worked as clerk in the dry goods and apothecary store of William Endicott, Sr., in Beverly, Mass. After his becoming of age, he con- tinued in the same business in Beverly on his own account until 185S, when he be- came interested in the manufacture of machine leather belting, in Boston. This, with other enterprises in which he became engaged in that city, gave him a busy and prosperous life for twenty-five years ; but from all of these lines of business he lias now practically retired. During these years he has retained his home in Beverly, the town of his adoption. Mr. Clark was married in Beverly, August 23, 1838, to Hitty, daughter of Eben and Lydia (Ray) Smith. Mrs. Clark died in May, 1888. Of four children only one survives : Sarah Warner Clark. Mr. Clark has always taken an active part in all efforts for the promotion of the industry and prosperity of this beautiful sea-girt town, in which he has resided since leaving his paternal roof in 1828, and he puts himself on record as opposed to any action of the Legislature looking to the division of its territory. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1861, and was presidential elector in 1880, casting his vote for General Garfield. Mr. Clark was a Whig in the campaign of 1840, early espoused the anti-slavery cause, and has been an active member of the Republican party from its organiza- tion. He is a trustee of Beverly Savings Bank, has been director and treasurer in several corporations — some of them for many years. His church connections are with the Dane Street society, as a member of which he has ever manifested a great interest in its prosperity, both by personal effort and liberal contributions. He acted as its musical director for many years. CLARK, Charles Nathaniel, was born at Northampton, Hampshire county, on the 4th day of April, 1853. His father, CHARLES N. CLARK Charles Clark, and his mother, Mary (Strong) Clark, represented two of those old families whose appearance in this town was contemporaneous with its very settle-