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and surrendered with General Lincoln on M-dv 12, 1780. He "was held a prisoner in Charleston until the spring of 1781, when he was paroled. He was married Feb. 13, 1783, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Hite, Sr. They settled in Spottsylvauia county, Va., and in 1793 Colonel Clark was com- missioned a major-general of Virginia militia. In 1803 he joined his brother, George Rogers, at the falls of the Ohio, settling at Trough Spring, near Louisville, Ky., where he accumulated a large property which he left to his widow and six surviving children. He died suddenly' at his home near Louisville, Ky., Nov. 25, 1811.

CLARK, Laban, clergyman, was born in Haverhill, X.H., July 19, 1778. He was educated at an academy at Bradford, Vt. In 1800 he began to preach; joined the New York Methodist con- ference in 1801 and for fifty years was an itiner- ant preacher. He was instrumental in the

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formation of the missionary society of the M.E. church, established in 1819. He actively inter- ested him.self in the formation of a Methodist college and procured the necessary endowments for Wesleyan university, which was established at Middletown, Conn., in 1831, and which in 1853 conferred upon him the degree of D.D. He served as president of its board of trustees until his death at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 28, 1868.

CLARK, Lewis Gay lord, journalist, was born at Otisco, Onondaga count}-, N.Y., in 1810; son of a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and twin brother of Willis Gaylord Clark. He went to New York city, where he engaged in literarj- work, and from 1834 to 1859 edited the Knicker- bocker Marjazine, which had been established in 1833, but was not prospering, even with Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Longfellow, and Willis as contributors. In 1855 " The Knickerbocker Gal- lery," a volume of contributions b\- the writers for the Knickerbocker, with portraits, edited by Francis, Griswold, Kimball, Morris and Shelton, was published for his benefit. The proceeds from the sale went far toward the purchase of a home at Piermont-on-the-Hudson. The Knicker-

bocker was the i)ioneer of advanced literary taste and the immeiliate cause of a higher class of popular periodical effort. While an educator, it failed of sufficient support, and in 1859, owing to financial mismanagement, it became bank- rupt. Mr. Clark was for some time emploj-ed in the New York custom house and continued his literary work for the press up to the time of his death. He was one of the originators of the Century association and a member of the St. Nicholas society. He published the Knicker- bocker Sketch Book (1850), and Ktiick-knacks from an Editor's Table (1852). He died at Piermont, N.Y.. Nov. 3. 1873.

CL.ARK, Lewis Whitehouse, jurist, was born in Barnstead, N.H., Aug. 19, 1838; son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Whitehouse) Clark; and grandson of Jonathan and Sarah (Priest) Clark. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1850; was a teacher in Pittsfield academy, 1850-52; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1852; was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1856-57; attorney -general of the state, 1873-76, justice of the supreme court of the state, 1877-98, and chief jiLstice Lom June 1 to August 19, 1898, when he retired, having attained the age of seventy years. He x\ as married Dec. 29. 1853, to Helen, daugliterof William and Betsy (Drake) Knowl- ton. The Rev. John Lew Clark was their son. Judue Clark d ied at Manchester, N.H..May 38. 1900.

CLARK, Lincoln, representative, was born in Conway, Mass., Aug. 9, 1800; son of Elisha and Lucinda (Keith) Clark. He was graduated at Amherst in 1835; taught in North Carolina and Virginia, 1835-31: practised law in Pickensville, Ala., 1831-36, and served in the state legislature in 1834, 1835 and 1845. He resided in Tuscaloosa, 1836-47, and was attorney-general of the state in 1839 and judge of the circuit court in 1846. He was a lawyer in Dubuque, Iowa, 1848-63, and a representative from Iowa in the 33d congress, 1851-53. He then removed to Chicago where he practised law until 1866, when he was made reg- ister in bankruptcy. In 1869 he returned to Conway. Mass., where he died, Sept. 16, 1886.

CLARK, Marvin R., journalist, was born in New York city, Jan. 5, 1840; son of Benjamin Franklin and Margaret J. Clark. He was edu- cated at private schools, and at the Mechanics' society school, from which institution he was graduated in 1856. He early began to write and in 1861 joined the staff of the New York Sundai/ Dispatch. He became successively editor and publisher of different daily and weekly news- papers, notable among which were the Evening Fress, the Canard, and Truth. To the last named publication he contributed the celebrated "Trumpeter"' papers, of which the authorship was generally attributed to the former mayor.