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and Jemima (Lyman) Clarke, and the sixth gen- eration from William Clarke, who came from England in 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Mass. He was graduated at Williams college in 1817 and at Audover theological seminary in 1820. He was married in 1823 to Hannah A. Bliss of Longmeadow, Mass. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry Feb. 5, 1823, and held pastorates at Blandford, Mass., 1823-35, and Chic- opee, Mass., 1835^0. He established in Boston the Neio England Puritan in 1841, was associate editor, 1841-45; editor of the Christian Parlor Magazine, 1845^7; and of the Christian Times, 1845-51. He was subsequently historian of the New England historic genealogical society. He received the honorary degree of D. D. from Williams college in 1868. Among his publications are Letters to Young People in Manufacturing Villages (1836); Letters to Horace Mann (1838); Fugitives from the Escritoire of a Eetired Editor (1864); The Oneness of the Christian Church (1869); Orthodox Congregation- alism and the Sects (1871); Beview of the Oberlin Council; Bevision of the English Version of the Bible (1873, new edition, 1894); Ancestry and Writings (1876); What Is the True Idea of the Tri-unittj of God? (1877); and Sayiiig the Catechism (1879). He died in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1884.

CLARKE, Edward Hammond, physician, was born at Norton, Mass., Feb. 2, 1820; son of the Rev. Pitt Clarke. He was graduated from Harvard in 1841. After two years at Fayal as tutor in the family of Consul Dabney, he returned home and was graduated M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1846. He made a special study of the diseases of the ear in Europe and on his return to the United States settled in Boston, where he attained eminence as an aurist. In 1855 he succeeded Dr. Jacob Bigelow as professor of materia medica at Harvard college, resigning the chair in 1872 and serving as a member of the board of overseers of Harvard, 1872-77. He was opposed to the higher education of women purely on physiological grounds and wrote " Sex in Edu- cation," in answer to which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe published "Sex and Education." He delivered, by invitation, an address on the " Edu- cation of Girls," before the National educational association at Detroit, Mich., Aug. 5, 1874. He was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He published Observations on the Treatment of Polypus of the Ear (1869); Physiolog- ical and Therapeutical Action of Bromide of Potas- sium and Bromide of Ammonium, in conjunction with R. Amory (1871); Sex in Education (1873); The Building of a iJmut (1874); and Visio7is; a Study of False Sight, written during his last ill- ness and published with a memoir by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1878). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 30, 1877.

CLARKE, Frank Gay, representative, was born in Wilton. N.H.. Sept. 10, 1850; son of Moses and Julia L. (Gay) Clark, and a descendant of Sanuiel CUark. He was prepared for college at the Kimball union academy, Meriden, N.H., and entered Dartmouth, but was not graduated in course, receiving a degree of B.S. in 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1876 and practised in Peterborougli, N.H. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1885 and 1891; speaker of that body in the latter year, and a state sena- tor in 1889. He served on the staff of Governor Hale, 1885-'87. He was a Republican representa- tive in the 55th and 56th congresses, 1897-1901. He died in Peterborough, N.H., Jan. 9, 1901.

CLARKE, Frank Wiggles worth, chemist, was born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1847; son of Henry W. and Abby (Fisher) Clarke; grand- son of the Rev. Sam- uel and Sarah (Wig- glesworth) Clarke and of Nathan Ma- son and Elizabeth (Champney) Fisher, and great ^ grandson of Robert Clarke who settled in New Bos- ton, N.H., about 1725. He was graduated from the Lawrence scientific school. Har- vard, in 1867 with the degree of B.S.; was instructor in chemis- try at Cornell univer- sity, 1868-69; held the chair of chemistry and physics at Howard university, Wash- ington, D.C., 1873-74; and filled a similar posi- tion in the University of Cincinnati, 1874-83, the laboratory department of this college attain- ing a high degree of efficiency under his direction. He made numerous investigations relative to atomic weights and in 1881 provisionally revived the abandoned theory of Prout, that the atomic weights of all the elements are multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen. Professor Clarke became an acknowledged authority on the subject and his " Recalculation of Atomic Weights " became a standard work. In 1883 he was appointed chemist-in-chief to the United States geological survey. In 1894 he accepted the chair of mineral chemistry at Columbian university, Washington, D.C. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science in 1869 and in 1878 was chairman of its chemical section. He was president of the Washington chemical society in 1885; of the Washington philosophical society in 1896, and was made a corresponding member of the British association

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