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and Mary C Wolf) Reynolds of Hagerstown, Mary- land. His paternal grandfather was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war and was in the siege of Yorktown. His maternal grandfather was major of a Maryland regiment in the war of 1812. His maternal great-grandfather, John Reynolds of York, Pa., was a captain in the Revolutionary army. He attended Des Moines Valley college for one j'ear and enlisted in the 19th Iowa Infantry, but was not mu.stered in on account of ill health. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1864, and in 1864 became editor of the Keokuk Gate City. He was a delegate to the Republican National conventions of 1872, 1876 and IbyO and a representative in the 54th and 05th congresses from the first Iowa district, 1895-99. He died in Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. 11, 1900.

CLARK, Sheldon, philanthropist, was born at Oxford, Conn., Jan. 31, 1785. At an early age he was adopted by his grandfather, Thomas Clark, who trained him to be a farmer. He was educated at the common schools, and in the season of 1811-12 attended lectures at Yale col- lege and received instruction from President Dwight. He returned to the farm and devoted his time to agricultural labors and to private study. In 1823 he deposited for Yale college §5000, to be placed at compound interest for twenty-four years, and the amount to be used to found the Clark professorship of moral philosophy and metaphysics. In 1824 he gave §1000 to es- tablish scholarships in Yale college, the sum to stand at compound Interest for twenty-four years. In 1829 the college received from him $1200 for the purchase of a telescope. He was elected to the state legislature in 1825 and several times re-elected. He bequeathed to Yale college property and money to the value of $15,000. He is the author of: A Cure for Arminianism (1815) ; Essay on Volition ; Essays (1823) ; and Free Agency, Predestination and Knoidedge (1839). See Notice of the late Sheldon Clark by Prof. Silliman, in The American Journal of Science (XLI., 217). He died at Oxford, Conn., April 10, 1840.

CLARK, Simeon Taylor, educator, was born at Canton, Mass., Oct. 10, 1836; son of the Rev. Nathan Sears and Laura (Swift) Clark. His pre- paratory education Avas acquired at Sippican seminary, Marion, Mass., and at the Oxford nor- mal institute, South Paris, Maine. In 1885 he accepted the chair of medical jurisprudence in Niagara university. He received the degree of M.D. from the Berkshire medical college in 1860, and that of A.M. from Genesee college, after- ward Syracuse university, in 1866. He is the author of poetical contributions to periodicals. He died in Lockport, N.Y., Dec. 24, 1891.

CLARK, Thomas, author, was born at Lan- caster, Pa., in 1789. He was educated, with a

view to entering the Roman Catholic priesthood, at St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, Md. In 1813 he joined the army as a lieutenant of artillery, was promoted captain of engineers and employed on the defences of the Delaware river, serving throughout the war. He was mustered out in 1815, and applied himself to literature. He edited a series of Greek and Latin classics, Boyer's French grammar, and a series of mathe- matical works. He wrote a Xaval History of the United States from the Commencement of the Revo- lutionary War (2 vols., 1813-14) ; and Sketches of the Xaval History of the United States (1813). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1860.

CLARK, Thomas March, .second bishop of Rhode Island and sixty-third in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Newburyport, Mass., July 4, 1812; son of Thomas March and Rebecca (Wheelwright), grand.son of Enoch and Mary (March), great - grandson of Enoch and Hannah, great ^ grandson of Henry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf), and

great ^ grandson of Nathaniel and Eliza- beth (Somerby) Clark. He attended Phillips academy, Andover, and Amherst college ; was graduated from Yale inl831 ; was prin- cipal of Lowell high ^^^ ThAi^i^ ifi^i^ school, 1831-33; was

graduated at Princeton theological seminary in 1835, and the same year was licensed to preach by the Newburyport presbytery. He was in temporary charge of the Old South church, Boston, in the autumn of 1835, when he deter- mined to enter the ministry of the Episcopal church. He was confirmed by Bishop Griswold in February, 1836, and the following week was admitted to the diaconate, and was advanced to the priesthood in November of the same j^ear. He was married in 1838 to Caroline, daughter of Benjamin Howard of Boston, Mass. During his diaconate he entered upon his ministry in Grace church, Boston, which was terminated in 1N43 by his removal to Philadelphia to accept the rectorship of St. Andrew's church in that city. In 1847 he returned to Boston as assistant minister at Trinity church. In 1850 he assumed the rec- torship of Christ chiirch, Hartford, Conn., which charge he administered successfully until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated bishop of Rhode Island Dec. 6, 1854, and in addi- tion to the duties of his diocese was rector of Grace church. Providence, for twelve years. In