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Episcopal church. For twenty years he was a presiding elder, and was often a delegate to gen- eral conferences. In 1878 he was sent to Europe as commissioner to the various Methodisms of Europe and America, and in 1881 Avas a delegate to the Methodist ecumenical conference. From 1868 to 1872 he held the chair of Latin in Emory college, and was chairman of the state committee on the unification of the University of Georgia with the denominational colleges. He was a trustee of Wesleyan female college in Georgia. Mr. Clark was active in educational work throughout Georgia and was the chief instru- ment in building the Nannie Lou Worthen insti- tute of Wrightsville. He received the degree of D.D. from Emory college in 1871, and from Brown university in 1892 ; and that of LL.D. from the University of Georgia in 1875. His published writings include The Wesley Memorial Volume (1880) ; Elijah Vindicated (1885) ; Esther : a Sequel to Ben Hur (1892) ; and numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Macon, Ga., Sept. 4, 1894.

CLARK, James West, representative, was born in Bertie county. N.C., Oct. 15, 1779; son of Christopher and Hannah (Turner) Clark, and grandson of Thomas Turner of Boston, Mass. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1797. He was a delegate to the house of com- mons of the state of North Carolina, 1802, 1803 and 1811; presidential elector, 1812; state sena- tor, 1813-14; representative in the 14th con- gress, 1815-17, and chief clerk of the navy de- partment, under John Branch, 1829-31. He died in Tarborough, N.C., in December, 1843.

CLARK, John, pioneer preacher, was born at Petty, near Inverness, Scotland, Nov. 29, 1758; son of Alexander Clark. In 1778 he shipped as sailor on a transport, transferred his services to a privateer, and in 1779 sailed as mate on a mer- chantman. He was pressed for the British navy and promoted quartermaster, but deserted and shipped on the merchantman Hero, which was captured by the Spanish, and he was impris- oned at Havana for nineteen months. On being released he was again pressed but es- caped by swimming to shore, a distance of two miles, finding himself near Charleston, S.C. He taught school in Georgia, and joined the Methodist church. Subsequently he visited his old home in Scotland, and returned to Georgia about 1789, where he preached, and was ordained a deacon by Bishop Asbury in 1794. He refused to accept his salary of §60 on one occasion, be- cause it was the fruit of slave labor. In 1796 he travelled on foot from Georgia to Kentucky, where he preached and taught school, and in 1798 settled in Illinois. The Lemens, early Bap- tist ministers in Illinois, were trained by him in languages and theologj\ About 1807 he made a

missionary excursion to Louisiana, making the journey of 1200 miles in a canoe, and in 1820 vis- ited the Boones in Lick county, Mo., being the first preacher to go so far west. He died near Coldwater, Mo., Oct. 11, 1833.

CLARK, John Alonzo, clergyman, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., May 6, 1801. He was gradu- ated at Union college in 1823, pursued a course of theological study and was admitted to the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal church, April 12, ]826. He was employed in missionary work, 1826-29; was assistant rector of Christ church. New York city, 1829-32; rector of Christ church. Providence, R.I., 1832-35; and rector of St. Andrew's church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1835-43. His publications include The Pastor's Testimony (1835) ; Gathered Fragments (1836);^ Walk about Ziore (i 836); and Glimpses oj the Old World (1838) ; the last was republished in London, with a memoir by S. H. Tyng (1847). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 27, 1843.

CLARK, John Bates, educator, Avas born at Providence, R.I., Jan. 26, 1847; son of John H. and Charlotte (Huntington) Clark, and a grand- son of Gen. Jedediah Huntington of New London, Conn., a Rev- olutionary patriot. He was prepared for college at the Provi- dence high school, spent two years at Brown university, and in 1870 entered Amherst college,

where he was gradu- ated in 1872. The three years following he spent in Europe, chiefly at the univer- sities of Heidelberg and Zurich, in the study of political economy and history. He was professor of political economy and history at Carleton college, Minne- sota, 1877-82; at Smith college, Northampton, Mass. , 1882-92 ; professor of political economy at Amherst college, 1892-95, meanwhile lecturing on economic theory at Johns Hopkins university in 1892, 1893 and 1894. In 1895 he became pro- fessor of political economy at Columbia univer- sity. He was one of the organizers in 1885, third vice-president and chairman of the committee on economic theory of the American economic asso- ciation, and was president of the association, 1893-95. He received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton university in 1896 and from Amherst in 1897. He is the author of the so-called "final productivity" theory of wages and interest, and contributed to the theories of value, of static

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