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 CLARK

CLARKE

While there he investigated the flora of Japan and brought to the United States various flower seeds and species of shade trees new to America. Cetraria Clarkii, discovered by him, was named in his honor by Prof. Edward Tuckerman. He was a member of the Massachusetts state board of agri- culture, 1859-61, and ex officio, 1876-79. He was appointed by Governor Andrew in 1863 a member of the commission to consider the establishment of a state military academy. In 1864 he was a presidential elector, and secretary of the elec- toral college ; and in 1864, 1865 and 1867 was a member of the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature. He was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and a member of other learned societies. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Gottingen in 1852, and that of LL.D. from Amherst in 1874. He contributed numerous toiwcal papers covering his observa- tions and investigations to the annual reports of the Massachusetts agricultural society and others were published in pamphlet. He died at Am- herst, Mass., March 9, 1886.

CLARK, Willis Qaylord, journalist, was born in Otisco, Onondaga county, N.Y., in 1810; son of a Revolutionary soldier and twin brother of Lewis Gaylord Clark. His first venture in journalism was in 1830 as editor of a weekly paper which he established in Philadelphia and which had a brief existence. He was next asso- ciate editor of the Cohimbian Star, a weekly religious and literary periodical, and later became editor of the Philadelphia Gazette, the oldest daily newspaper published in the city, and which afterward passed entirely into his hands. He read his poem, "The Spirit of Life," before the Franklin society of Brown universitj% Sept. 31, 1833. He published Gazpaclw ; or Summer Months in Spain (1850) ; a collection of his shorter poems during his lifetime ; and a complete edition w^as prepared by his brother and issued in 1847. Literary Bemains of Willis Gaylord Clark, with Memoir and many of his Knickerbocker Papers (1844), was edited by his brother. He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., June 12, 1841.

CLARKE, Albert, publicist, was born at Granville, Vt., Oct. 13, 1840; son of Jedediah and Mary (Woodbury) Clarke. He attended the academies of West Randolph and Barre, Vt., was admitted to the bar in 1860 and practised in Montpelier and Rochester for several years. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 13th Vermont volunteers; was promoted 1st sergeant, and later 1st lieutenant, commanding a company at Gettysburg. He was subsequently colonel on the staff of Gov. Paul Dillingham. From 1868 to 1880 he was connected with the St. Albans Messenger, most of the time as sole proprietor, and was for nearly ten years engaged in a mem-

orable controversy with the Central Vermont railroad. He sat in the state senate in 1874. In 1881 he removed to Boston, Mass., was editorially connected with the Advertiser until 1884 and meanwhile was president of the Vermont and Canada railroad com})any. He was editor and manager of the Rutland, Vt., Herald, 1886-89, and on his return to Boston he was elected secre- tary and manager of the Home Market club, supervising the issue of the Home Market Bulletin, an economic journal, and of a large number of pamphlets pertaining to protection and sound money. In this service he delivered addresses, engaged in debates, and took part in the cam- paigns in many states. He was a delegate to the- Republican national convention in 1892, and in 1896, 1897 and 1898, .served in the Massachusetts house of representatives, becoming chairman of the committee on ways and means. From various local positions of prominence in the Grand Army of the Republic he became judge advocate general in 1896, and his elaborate opinions in several difficult cases were highly commended by the National encampment in 1897. Dartmouth con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1887.

CLARKE, Alvah Augustus, representative, was born at Lebanon, N.J., Sept. 13, 1840; son of Samuel and Sarah (Ramsey) Clark; grandson of Abel and Lois (Smith) Clark, and of James and Margaret (Hoffman) Ramsey, and of English and Irish ancestry. He was prepared for college at a classical school but did not enter, and after teaching school for one year he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863, practising at Somerville, N.J. In 1876 he was elected a repre- sentative in the 45th congress, and was re-elected to the 46th congress. He was married June 9, 1864, to Anna M. Vanderbeck.

CLARKE, Augustus Peck, educator, was born in Pawtucket, R.I., Sept. 24, 1833; son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke; grandson of Edward Clarke, who served in the Mexican war (1846-47), and great-grandson of Capt. Ichabod Clarke, w4io served in the war of the Revolution, and a descendant of Joseph Clarke, who settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. He was graduated at Brown university an A.M. in 1861, and re- ceived the degree of M.D. at Harvard in 1862. On Aug. 1, 1861, he entered the Union army as assistant surgeon, 6th New York cavalry, and was promoted surgeon m May, 1863. In Novem- ber, 1863, he was appointed surgeon -in chief of the second brigade in Sheridan's first division of cavalry, and from February, 1865, to the end of the war, was surgeon-in-chief of the whole division. At the close ot the war he was brev- etted lieutenant-colonel and also colonel. After