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CLARK

1894 the fortieth anniversarj^ of his consecration was celebrated by the clergy and laity of his diocese. On Jan. 28, 1898, the Rev. ■William Nelson McVickar, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., was consecrated coadjutor bishop. Bishop Clark re- ceived the honorary degree of M. A. from Trinity college, Hartford, in 1851; that of D.D. from Union college in 1851, and from Brown University in 1860; and that of LL.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1867. Among his published works are: Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of Character (1852) ; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher (1860) ; Primary Truths of Religion (1869 j; Headings and Prayers for Aid. in Private Devotions (1888) ; Beminiscences (1895) ; besides numerovis sermons and addresses.

CLARK, Walter, jurist, was born in Halifax county, N.C., Aug. 19, 1846; son of Gen. David and Anna M. (Thorne) Clark. He entered the Confederate service in 1861 from the Hillsboro military academy, and at the age of seventeen had risen to lieutenant-colonel of the 70th North Carolina regiment. He was out of the service •one year and was graduated at the University of North Carolina in June, 1864, at the head of his cla.ss. Having surren- dered with the army of Joseph E. Johnston April26, 1865, he stud- ied law in New York and at Columbian law college in Washing- ton, D.C. In 1873 he removed to Raleigh to practise his profession and in 1874 was mar- ried to the only datighter of the Hon. William Alexander Grahana, formerly governor of North Carolina. In 1882 he was a delegate to the Methodist ecumenical council in London, and in 1890 and 1894 represented the southern Metho- dist church in its general conferences. In 1885 he was appointed by Governor Scales a judge of the superior court of North Carolina. He was elected to the same post by the people in 1886. In 1889 he was elected associate justice of the supreme court of the state for the unexpired term. In 1894 he was nominated for the full term, eight years, by all three political parties, Democratic, Republican and Populist, the only instance in the history of the state, and was unanimously elected. In 1890 the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Annotated Code of North Carolina, which passed tlirough three editions, 1890, 1894 and 1897 ; and other law books,

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and a History of North Carolina (1897). He is the autlior of frequent contributions to the leading magazines of the country, and in 1896 contributed a series of illustrated articles to the Arena, de- scriptive of his tour in Mexico. He also trans- lated from the French Constant's Private Memoirs of Napoleon (3 vols., 1895).

CLARK, William, Indian commissioner, was born in Caroline county, Va., Aug. 1, 1770; son of John and Ann (Rogers) Clark ; and brother of Jonathan (1750-1811), George Rogers (1752-1818), John (1757-1784), Richard (1760-1784), and Ed- mund (1762-1815) ; the six brothers being officers in the army. William removed in 1784 with his father and mother to the falls of the Ohio, taking up their residence on the tract located by George Rogers Clark, where in 1777 he had built a fort. Here the settlers were constantly harassed by the Indians and the boy grew^ up an adept in Indian warfare. He marched with Col. John Hardin against the Indians across the Ohio in 1789; was appointed an ensign in 1791; served under Scott and Wilkinson against the Indians on the Wabash and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the fourth sub-legion by President Washington in March, 1793. He served under General Wayne, conducted an expedition up the Wabash to Vincennes ; returned to Fort Wash- ington (Cincinnati) in the spring of 1794; es- corted with a few men valuable trains of supplies and defended them against the Indians, receiving from General Wayne thanks for his good conduct. In July, 1796, continued ill-health compelled him to resign from the army and he resided at the falls of the Ohio for nearly eight years. President Jefferson conunissioned him 2d lieutenant of artillery and ordered him to join Capt. Meri- wether Lewis in an expedition across the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean at the mouth of the Columbia river. He had the military direc- tion of the expedition and his knowledge of the Indians greatly added to the success of the expe- dition, which occupied the years 1804-05. He visited the national capital upon his retiirn ; was commissioned 1st lieutenant in January, 1806, and was nominated lieutenant-colonel of the 2d infantry, but his appointment failed of confirma- tion in the senate. He was appointed Indian agent at St. Louis in 1807, and was commis- sioned by congress brigadier-general for Louisi- ana Territory. In 1812 he declined a commission as brigadier-genei'al with command of the army of the northwest as successor to General Hull. In 1813 he was made governor of Louisiana Ter- ritory, and upon the organization of the state of Missouri, in 1820, was the defeated candidate for its first governor. In 1822 President Monroe made him superintendent of Indian affairs and