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 CLARKE

CLAEKSON

degree of Ph. B. from Yale in 1878 and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins in 1879. In 1891 Williams conferred on him the degree of A.M. His more notable published papers are Hydroids from the Keic England Coast (1875) \from the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island (1876);from Alaska (1876); from the Gulf Stream and Gulf of Mexico (1879); Develop- ment of Amhlystoma Punctatum (1879); of the Wolffian Body (1881); of a Doul>le-Headed Verte- brate (1880); The Emhryolofjy of the American Alli- gator (1891).

CLARKE, Sidney, representative, was born in Soutlibridge, Mass., Oct. 16, 1831; son of Jo- seph and Sally (Heath) Clarke, and grandson of Jeptha Clarke, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His father served in the war of 1812. Sidney was educated in the public schools, and in 1854 Ijecame the editor of the Soutlibridge Press which he published for five years. He settled in Law- rence, Kan., in 1859, and was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1862. He was appointed assistant adjutant -general with the rank of cap- tain of volunteers, Feb. 9, 1863, and resigned Feb. 20, 1865. He served as assistant provost- marshal-general and superintendent of volunteer recruiting service for Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Dakota and on the staff of Major-General S. R. Curtis. He was a representative from Kan- sas in the 39th congress. 186.5-67, and served on the committees on the Pacific railroad and on In- dian affairs. On the death of President Lincoln he accompanied the remains to Illinois. He was a delegate to the Loyalist convention, Philadel- phia. 1866. and M-as re-elected to the 40th and 41st congresses. In 1879 he was a member of the Kansas legislature and speaker of the house of representatives. He was prominently connected with the movement for the organization of Okla- homa Territory, and settled at Oklahoma city in 1889.

CLARKE, Thomas Curtis, civil engineer, was born at Newton, Mass.. Sept. 6, 1827; youngest son of Samuel and Rebecca Parker (Hull) Clarke, and brother of James Freeman Clarke. His father died when he was three years old, and the care and education of the boy devolved on the mother, who supported herself and family by her own exertions. He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin school and was graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied engineering under Capt. John Childe, U.S. engineers, and the Messrs. Baldwin, eminent hydraulic engineers. His first professional work was as an engineer in the con- struction of the Mobile & Ohio railroad in Ala- bama in 1849, and from there he went to Canada where he engaged in the construction of railways and other public works. In 1867 he removed to Quinc}', 111., where he built a railroad bridge across the Mississippi river and afterward

achieved wide fame as a builder of bridges and viaducts, having designed and constructed over one hundred miles. He was elected president of the American society of civil engineers on Jan. 15. 1896, and a member of the American philo- sophical society and the British institution of civil engineers, which last named society awarded him the double prize of the Telford gold medal and Telford premium for a paper on American bridges. He was one of the designers and con- structors of the Poughkeepsie bridge, N. Y., and of the Hawkesburj' bridge in New South AVales, Australia, which bridge was awarded to him and his associates after an open competition with all the world. He died in New York, June 17, 1901.

CLARKE, Walter, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Newport. R.I.. in 1640; son of Jere- miah and Francis (Latham) Clarke. He was governor af Rhode Island before and through the period of King Philip's war, liolding the office until May, 1677. when he was succeeded by Ben- edict Arnold. He was deputj' governor from !May, 1679, until May. 1686, when he was again elected governor. Wl^le the royal charter was suspended Governor Clarke refused to serve and John Coggeshall acted as governor. He caused the charter of Rhode Island to be con- cealed and when Sir Edward Andros sought to secure the document it could not be found. Clarke restored it to the people upon the fall of Andros in 1689. In February, 1690, he was succeeded by Henry Bull; in January, 1696, he was again chosen governor to succeed Gov- ernor Carr, deceased, and he resigned in March, 1698, in favor of his nephew, Samuel Cranston. In the spring election of 1700 he was chosen deputy governor and held the office up to the time of his death which occurred at Newport, R.I.. March 22. 1714.

CLARKE, William T., journalist, was born in Walpole, Mass., Oct. 1, 1829. He was the son of a farmer, and received a liberal education, study- ing theology at Meadville, Pa., and at Cam- bridge, Mass. He was ordained a minister of the Unitarian society and preached for some years at Haverhill and Chelsea, Mass. He was editor of TJie Liberal Christian, New York city, 1866-70, and in the latter year transferred his services to the Golden Age, of which Theodore Tilton was then editor. He was later on the editorial staff of the Xew York Graphic, The Evening Express, and the Xerc York Star, and was connected with the last named journal at the time of his death wliich occurred in New York citj', Dec. 11, 1883.

CLARKSON, Floyd, soldier, was born in New York city, Feb. 27, 1831: son of Samuel Floyd and Amelia Ann ( Baker) Clarkson; grandson of the Rev. William and Catharine (Jones) Clark- .son: and great-grandson of Dr. Gerardus and