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several j'ears president of the New England as- sociated press. He is the author of ^1 liecord of the Boston Stage (1850); and Drama in Boston. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 8, 1891.

CLARDY, John Daniel, representative, was born in Smith county, Tenn., Aug. 30, 1828; son of John Collins and Elizabeth (Cayce) Clardy;

grandson of Benjamin Clardy and of

and Elizabeth (Atkinson) Caj'ce; and paternally descended from French Huguenots, and mater- nally from the English. In 1831 he -was taken by his parents to Christian county, Ky., where his preparatory education was acquired. He was graduated at Georgetown college in 1848, and in 1851 received his M.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He practi-sed inedicine for nearly thirty years, abandoning his profession to devote his time to scientific agriculture and stock raising. In 1890 he was elected to repre- sent Cliristian county in the constitutional con- vention, and in 1891 was named as a candidate for governor of Kentucky, but was defeated for the Democratic nomination by John Young Brown. He served as state commissioner at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. He was a Demo- cratic rej^resentative from Kentucky in the 54th and 5oth congresses, and at the expiration of his second term, voluntarih^ retired from pub- lic life.

CLARDY, Martin Luther, representative, was born in St. Genevieve county. Mo., April 26, 1844. He attended St. Louis university and the L'ni- versity of Virginia, was admitted to the bar and settled to practice in Farmington, Mo. Subse- quently he entered politics and represented his district as a Democrat in the 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th and oOth congresses, 1879-89.

CLARK, Abraham, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born near Elizabethtown, N.J., Feb. 15, 1726; son of Thomas Clark. He followed the occupa- tion of a surveyor, and was also sheriff of Essex county, and clerk of the New Jer- sey assembly. He was admitted to the bar and removed to Rahway, N. J., in 1767. At the begin- ning of the Revolu- tion he was a member of the committee of safety, and as a rep- resentative in the Continental congress, 1776-78, he signed the Declaration of Independ- ence. He was returned to congress, serving

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1780-82, and again, 1787-88. He was a member of the New Jersey assembly, 1782-87, and a del- egate to the Annapolis convention of 1786. He was elected to the convention in 1787, which framed the constitution of the United States, but illness prevented him from attending. His two sons served in the Continental army, and were imprisoned and treated with indignity. He was elected a representative in the 2d and 3d U.S. congresses, serving 1791-94. He died at Rahway, N.J., Sept. 15, 1794.

CLARK, Addison, educator, was born in Titus county, Texas, Dec. 11, 1842; son of Joseph Addi- son and Hetty (De Spain) Clark; grand.son of Thomas Dyson and Rebecca Jane (Cuningham) Clark, and of Marshall and Rachel (Lynn) De Spain; and of Scotch and French descent. His first American ancestor on his mother's side was his great ^ grandfather, Solomon De Spain, from France. He was prepared for col- lege by his father and was graduated from Carlton college in 1869. He was ordained a minister of the Church of Disciples in 1869, and in 1873 was elected president of Add-Ran uni- versity. Thorp Springs, afterward removed to Waco, Texas. He was made a fellow of the So- ciety of literature and arts, London, in 1890. He was married Jan. 29, 1869, to Sallie McQuigg, and his oldest daughter, Jessie May Clark, A.B., Add- Ran, became a public school teacher; his son, Addison Clark, Jr., A.B., Add-Ran and University of Michigan, became professor of history and English at Add-Ran university; and another son, Carlton Clark, A.M.. became principal of the Crawford school at Crawford, Texas. President Clark received the degree of LL.D. from Add- Ran university in 1887.

CLARK, Alexander, journalist, was born in Washington county, Pa., in February, 1826, of colored parents. He received a good district school training, learned the trade of barber, re- moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1843, and there pursued his vocation. He was a delegate to the national convention of colored men at Rochester, N. Y.; in 1853, identified himself with the Republi- can party and became a prominent political orator. He was a delegate to all the county and state conventions of his party, and in 1869 repre- sented his race in Iowa in the national conven- tion at Washington, D.C. In 1882 lie purchased the Chicago Conservator and conducted it with success until 1889. In 1883 lie was graduated at the Iowa state law scliool and was admitted to the Chicago bar. In August, 1890, President Harrison apjwinted him U.S. minister to Liberia, and lie died at Monrovia, Liberia, June 3, 1891.

CLARK, Alexander, editor, was born in Jef- fer.son c-ountv, Ohio, March 10, 1834. In 1851 he