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the completion of his military service in 1865 he visited Europe and pursued his medical studies, attending the hospitals of London, Paris and Leipzig. In 1866 he began general practice in Cambridge, Mass. He was secretary of the Cam- bridge society for medical improvement, 1870-74; a member of the Cambridge common council, 1871-73; and an alderman in 1874. In 1891 and 1892 he was elected president of the Gynecological society of Boston, and in 1893 was vice-president of the Pan American medical congress. He was called to the chair of gynecology and abdominal surgery at the College of physicians and surgeons, Boston, Mass., in 1893, and in 1894 was made dean of the faculty. He became a member, and was for a time a councillor of the Massachusetts medical society; vice-president of the Mexican medical congress, 1896; and a member of the American academy of medicine, the American medical association, and was vice-president 1895- 96, and a member of other similar organizations. He was an honorary president of the Russian medical congress at Moscow, 1897. He was also elected a member of the New England historic genealogical society He is the author of Vas- cular Groicths (1887) ; Pijosalpinx as a Cause of Suppurative Pelvic Inflammation (1890) ; Oriyin and Development of Modern Gynecology (1892) ; Some Points in the Surgical Treatment of Appendicitis (1898) ; Treatment of Fibromyoma (1894) ; Indica- tions for Total Hysterectomy (1895) ; and Surgical Treatment of Morbid, Conditions Involving the Broad Ligaments C1898) He also published Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (1896) ; A Book of Poems (1896).

CLARKE, Bayard, representative, was born in New York city, March 17, 1815. He was edu- cated at Geneva college class, 1835, and became a lawj-er. He was an attache to Gen. Lewis Cass, U.S. minister to France, 1836-40; and while in that country attended the Royal cavalry school of France. He was appointed 2d lieutenant of the 8th U.S. infantry, March 8, 1841. In September, 1841, he was transferred to the 2d dragoons and resigned Dec. 15, 1848, after service in the Florida war. He resided in Westchester county, N.Y., and was elected by the American party a repre- sentative in the 34th congress, 1855-57. He died in the Adirondacks, N.Y., June 21, 1884.

CLARKE, Benjamin Franklin, educator, was born at Newport, Maine, July 14, 1831 ; son of Thomas and Martha L. (Whitten) Clarke. He was educated at the common schools and at Brown university, where he was graduated in 1863, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1866. From 1863 to 1868 he was instructor in mathematics at Brown, and from 1868 to 1893 was professor of mathematics and civil engineering. He was ap- pointed to the chair of mechanical engineering

in 1893. During the absence of President An- drews in 1896-97, Professor Clarke was acting president.

CLARKE, Beverly Leonidas, representative, was born in Old Winterfield, Chesterfield county, Va., Feb. 11, 1809; son of William and Pauline (Hopkins) Clarke ; grandson of Charles and Nancy (Martin) Clarke; and great-grandson of Charles and Elisabeth (Salle) Clarke, and of William and Jane (Holman) Martin. His great grandfather, Charles Clarke, came from Surry, England, and settled in Chesterfield or Powhatan county, Va. Beverly was educated in the common schools and in 1823 re moved with his fath- er to Kentucky from Virginia. Through his own exertion lie acquired a good Eng- lish education, and studied Latin. He studied law in Frank- lin, Ky., and after ward attended the law school in Lex- ington, Ky.. where he was graduated in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and practised his profession in Franklin, Ky., with success, especially as a criminal lawyer for de- fendants. At the age of twenty-two he was elected to the state legislature, and was several times re-elected. He was elected to the 30th con- gress as a representative in 1846, overcoming a large Whig majority in his district. He was a prominent member of the state convention that formed a new constitution in 1849. He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1855 and canvassed the state denouncing the " Know- nothing" party, but was defeated by a very small majority. He was minister-resident to Guatemala and Honduras, 1858-60, and was bap- tized and received into the Roman Catholic church in 1859. He was married in 1836 to Mariah Louise Clarke, who died when Mr. Clarke was in congress, leaving him four children: Pauline, who married Col. John S. Mosby of Confederate fame ; Mrs. Bettie E. Hatfield ; Mrs. Delia Apling, and George W. Clarke, a member of General Morgan's staff, who was killed in battle at Cynthiana, Ky. By a second marriage to Zenobia Turner he had one son, Thomas H. Clarke, who became connected with the Nash- ville (Tenn.) i?«?i«er Beverly L. Clarke died at Guatemala, C.A., March 17, 1860, and was buried at Frankfort, Ky.

CLARKE, Dorus, author, was born at West- hampton, Mass., Jan. 2, 1797; son of Jonathan