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of Southwest Georgia agricultural and mechani- cal college. He received the honorary degree of LL.D fi-om Mercer university in 1884. "While in the active discharge of his duties as judge of the superior court, he was killed by a railroad acci- dent at Smithville, Ga., July 22, 1889.

CLARKE, Joseph Morison, educator, was born in Bethany, Conn., Oct. o, 1827; son of the Rev. Joseph T. and Sarah (Morison) Clarke. He was graduated at Hobart college, A.B., 1847; A.M., 1850; was tutor at Hobart, 1847-52; and John H. Swift fellow, 1851-52. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1852, a priest in 1853, and was rector at Niagara Falls and at Syracuse, N.Y., 1852-86. He was prof essor of exegesis. Biblical literature and Hebrew in the Nashotah theological seminarj-, 1886-91 ; and was chaplain to the bishop of Central New York and professor of Church history and exegesis in St. Andrew's divinity school, Syracuse, N.Y., from 1891. He served as president of the standing committees of Central New York and Milwaukee and as a director of the Onondaga historical asso- ciation. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Hobart in 1865. He is the author of Christian Union and the ProteMant Episcopal Church; Was John Wesley a Methodist? pamphlets, and numerous reviews and other contributions to the Clntrch Eclectic, the Church Reineivawd other periodicals. He died in Syracuse. N.Y.. Nov. 30, 1899.

CLARKE, Mary Bayard, author, was born in Raleigh, N.C. ; the daughter of Thomas P. Dever- eaux, a lawyer and planter. Slie received a lib- eral education and was married in 1854 to Col. "William J. Clarke who had served in the Mexican war. She went with her husband to Cuba, im- mediately after her marriage, hoping to remove a pulmonary affliction, and they afterward re- sided in Texas until the outbreak of the civil war, when her husband went into the Confederate army and she returned with her children to North Carolina. She wrote liemimscences of Cuba in the Southern Literary Messenger, ISoo ; collected lier fugitive poems in a volume entitled Mosses from a Bollincj Stone, which was sold for the Stonewall cemeteiy fund ; wrote during the war lyrics including Battle of Manassas and Behel Sock ; after the war, General Sherman in Raleigh and The South Expects every Woman to do her Duty in The Old Guard, New York; and Clytie and Zenohia ; or the Lily and the Palm (1870). She was associate editor of Literanj Pastime, published in Richmond, Va., and contributed to the various magazines.

CLARKE, McDonald, poet, was born in Bath, Maine, June IS. 1798. He appeared in New York city in 1819 and his eccentricities in dress and manner made him a marked character. He mar- ried an acti'ess, wrote verses, and became known

as the "mad poet." On March 4, 1842, he A«ra* found in the streets of the city destitute and ap- parently mad, and was taken to the city prison, where he was lodged in a cell. The next morn- ing he was found drowned, the water flooding t'lie cell from an open faucet. His published works are, A Review of the Eve of Eternity ( 1822) ; The Elixir of Moonshine (1822); The Gossip (1825);. Afarn, or the Belles of Broadway (1829) ; Death in Disguise (1833) ; Poems (1836) ; and A Cross and a Coronet (1841). He is the author of the couplet

" Now twilight lets her curtain down, And pius it with a star. "

He died in New York city, March 5, 1842.

CLARKE, Reader Wright, representative, was born at Bethel, Ohio, May 18, 1812. He was educated at the public schools and began busi- ness as a printer. He was admitted to the bar in 1836, and practised law in Batavia, Ohio, until his election to the state legislature in 1840. He served also in 1841 and 1842, and in 1844 was made a presidential elector. From 1846 to 1853 he was clerk of the court of Clermont county, and in 1864 he was elected as a Republican a rep- resentative from Ohio in the 39th congre.ss. He was re-elected to the 40th congress, serving until March, 1869, when he was appointed by President Grant 3d auditor of the treasury, serving in this- office one year. He was also collector of internal revenue. He died at Batavia, Ohio, May 23, 1872.

CLARKE, Rebecca Sophia, author, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, Feb. 22, 1833; daughter of Asa and Sophia (Bates) Clarke ; and grand- daughter of John Clarke and of Solomon Bates. She was educated in her native town, and in 1861 began to write juvenile stories under the pen- name '"Sophie May." The " Prudy Stories ' were originally published in the Congregationalist. Her published books include, Little Prudy Stories (6 vols., 1864-66); Dotty Dimple Stories (6 vols., 1868-70); Little Prudy' s Flyaway Series (Q vols., 1871-74) ; The Doctor's Daughter (1873) ; Our Helen (1875) ; The Asbury Twins (1876) ; Flaxie Frizzle Stories (6 vols., 1876-84) ; Quinneba'sset Girls (1877) ; Janet; or, a Poor Heiress (1882); Drones' Honey (1887); Li Old Quinnebasset (1891).

CLARKE, Richard H., historian, was born in AVashington, D.C., July 3, 1827; son of Walter and Rachel (Boone) Clarke; and grandson of Lieut. "William and Mary (Simms) Clarke and of Fran- cis and Mary (Sanbury) Boone. His first Ameri- can ancestor, Robert Clarke, one of the founders of Maryland, came to America with Gov. Leon- ard Calvert, was a member of the legislature in 1649, and acknowledging himself a Roman Cath- olic, forfeited his large landed estate upon the accession of William and Mary. Lieut. William Clarke was an officer in the Revolutionary war.