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tributions to the various scientific periodicals, he jjublished : ^4 Claim for Scientific Property (1863); Mind in Nature, or the Origin of Life, etc. (1863), and The Fundamental Science (1865). For full list of his works and memoir, see Biographical Memoirs of American Academy of Sciences (Vol. I., 18TT). He died at Amherst, Mass.. July 1, 1873.

CLARK, Henry Toole, governor of North Carolina, was born in Tarboro, X.C, in 1808; son of James "West Clark. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1826 and received the degree of A.M. in 1832. He com- pleted a course in law and was admitted to the bar, but decided to become a planter. In 1849 he was elected a state senator and served as such for twelve years, presiding as .speaker, 1858-61. He was governor of the state in 1861-62. He died in Tarboro, N.C.. April 14, 1874.

CLARK, Horace Francis, railroad president, was born in Southbury, Conn., Nov. 29, 1815; son of Daniel A. Clark. He was graduated at Williams college in 1833, was admitted to the New York bar in 1837, and practised in that city for twenty years. He was elected as a Democrat a representative in the 35th congress, and as an Indej^endent to the 36th congress. In 1857 he was made a director of the New York & Harlem rail- road, and later became i^resident of the Union Pacific, the Michigan Southern, the Lake Shore and the Northern Indiana railroads ; and director of the New York Central & Hudson River, the Shore Line, the Chicago & Northwestern, and the New Haven, Hartford and Springfield rail- roads. He was active manager of the Western Union telegraph company, and president of the Union Trust company of New York. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by "Williams in 18G8. He died in New York city, June 19, 1873.

CLARK, J. Scott, educator, was born in Copenhagen. N.Y., Sept. 23, 1854; son of Nathan and Eliza A. (Clark) Clark; grandson of Orrin and Elizabeth (Hart) Clark; and a direct de- scendant from Deacon James Clark, a Scotch Presbyterian, who went from Scotland to Ireland, and thence to America, and was one of the foun- ders of Londonderry, N.H., April, 1719. His son, John S. Clark, served in botli the French and Indian and the Revolutionary wars. Scott was prepared for college at the Hungerford collegiate institute, Adams, N.Y., and was gradviated at Syracuse university in 1877, receiving his A.M. degree in 1880. He travelled in a business ca- pacity through the United States, 1877-79, while waiting to regain the use of his overstrained eyes before entering on his chosen profession, and he contributed numerous letters of travel to newspapers. He was principal of the Evanston, 111., high school, 1879-82; instructor in rhetoric, English criticism and elocution at Syracuse

university, 1882-86; full professor, 1886-92; and professor of the English language in North- western university, Evanston, 111., from 1892. He was married Jan. 5, 1885, to Carrie Fisher, daughter of Joseph Cumming Johnson of Mem- phis, Tenn., a student of "Vassar and "Wellesley colleges. He published A Practical Bhetoric (1886): A Briefer Practical Bhetoric (1888); The Art of Beadimj Aloud (1892);^ Study of English Prose Writers {\mS).

CLARK, James, clergyman, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., March 9, 1812; son of Robert S. and Ann (Case) Clark. He was graduated sa- lutatorian at the University of Pennsylvania in 1830, entered the Presbyterian ministry, and preached at the Tennent church at Freehold, N. J., 1837-39. He was pastor at Belvidere. N.J., 1840- 50, resigning in the latter year to accept the presi- dency- of Washington (Pa. ) college. This position he occupied until 1852, when he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lewisburg, Pa. Jefferson college conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1850. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 1, 1892.

CLARK, James Henry, physician, was born in Livingston, N.Y., June 23, 1814; son of Daniel A. Clark. He studied at Amherst, was gradu- ated from the College of phj-sicians and surgeons, New York city, in 1841, and after studying in Europe practised his profession at Newark, N.J. In 1867 he ^'as elected president of the Essex county medical society and in 1868 its historian. He was given the honorary degree of M.A. by Amlierst in 1859. His publications include History of the Cholera as it appeared in Xeicark in 1849 ; Sight and Hear- ing, How Breserved, How Lost (1856) ; Medical To- p>ography of Newark and Its Vicinity (1861); and Tlie Medical Men of Xew Jersey in Essex District from 1666 to 1S66 (1868). He also left uncom- pleted an Encyclopiedia of Diseases. He died in. Montclair, N. J., March 6, 1869.

CLARK, James Osgood Andrew, clergyman, was born at Savannah, Ga., Oct. 6, 1827; son of Josiah Hayden and Henrietta (Gindrat) Clark. He was descended on his father's side fi-om Josiah Hayden, a major in the Continental army, and on his mother's side from a French Huguenot fam- ily. He was prepared for college in the Boston liigh school and at Phillips Andover academy, and in 1847 entered Yale, where he remained one year. In 1848 he entered Brown university and was graduated in 1851, then returning to liis native state. In 1851-52 he tauglit school and studied law at Perry, Ga., gaining admission to the bar in the latter year. He practised in Sa- vannah for two years, leaving his profession in 1854 to study theology. In 1856 he was ordained a deacon, and in 1858, an elder in the Methodist