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CLELAND, Thomas Hann, clergyman, -^as born in "Woodford county, Ky., March 31, Ib-i-i; son of John W. and Emily M. Cleland; and grandson of the Rev. Thomas Cleland, D.D.. of 3Iercer county, Ky. He was graduated at Centre college in 1863 ; attended the Danville theologica 1 seminary in 1863-65, and was graduated from the Princeton theological seminary in 1866. He was licensed by the presbyterj- of Transj^lvania in 1866 and ordained by the presbytery of Missouri river in 1867. His first charge was at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1866-82 ; then Keokuk, 1882 ; Spring- field, Mo., 1884-94; and Duluth, Minn., from 1894. He was a trustee of Highland university, 1868- 70; of Parsons college, 1874-83; director of the McCormick theological seminary from 1880; trus- tee of board of aid for colleges and academies, 1883-86; and moderator of the synods of Iowa and Missouri. The University of "Wooster con- ferred on him the degree of D.D. in 1881. He is the author of Life of Father Bell and Founding of Presbyteries in loica ; Christian Science Examined, and other works.

CLEMENS, Jeremiah, senator, was born in Huntsville, Ala., Dec. 28, 1814; son of James Clemens. His mother was a sister of the Hon. Archibald E. Mills of Limestone, Ala. He was graduated at the University of Alabama in 1833 ; studied law at Transylvania university, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He was appointed U.S. district attorney for the northern district of Alabama by President Van Buren in 1838, and served as a representative in the state legislature in 1839, 1840 and 1841. He recruited a company of riflemen and with them joined the Texan rev- olutionists in 1842, serving in the army as lieu- tenant-colonel. Upon his retiu'n in 1843 he was again sent to the state legislature and was re- elected in 1844, also serving that year as presi- dential elector. When war with Mexico was declared, he was appointed major of the 13th U.S. infantry. He was commissioned March 3, 1847; promoted lieutenant-colonel in April, 1848, and colonel of the 9th infantry, July 9, 184>'. He served in Mexico in the 9tli infantry and v,-as discharged July 20, 1848, remaining in Mexico as chief of the depot of purchases. On Dec. 3, 18-! 9, he was elected to the U.S. senate to fill the unex- pired term of Dixon H. Lewis, deceased, and served through the 31st and 32d congresses. He was presidential elector in 1856 and in 1858 took up his residence in Memphis, Tenn., assuming the editorship of the Eagle and Enquirer. He was a member of the secession convention of Alabama of 1861 as a protestant against the movement, but afterward took part in the new government. He was appointed major-general of the state forces by Governor Moore in 1861. In 1864 he advocated the re-election of President Lincoln. He wrote

several novels including, Bernard Lyle (1853); Mustang Gray (1857); The Bivals (1859); and Tobias Wilso7i; or a Tale of the Great Rebellion (1865) ; and left incomplete a history of the war. He died at Huntsville, Ala., May 21, 1865.

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain ""), author, was born in Florida, Mo.. Nov. oU, 1S35; sun ol John Marshall and Jane Lampton (Lambton) Clemens. Removing to Hannibal, Mo., he attended school there till 1847, when his father died and he worked in the print- ing office of his brother Orion, 1847- 53. He journeyed to Philadelpliia and New York in 1853 ; worked in St. Louis, Musca- tine and Keokuk, 1854-57; was a pilot on a steamboat plying between St. Louis and New Orleans, 1857-61 ; second lieuteaant in the Confederal ^ army

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and joining his brother Orion, who had been ap- pointed secretary of the territory of Nevada, he became his assistant and afterward engaged in mining. In 1862 he accepted the city editor- ship of the Enterprise of Virginia City, Nev. Sent to Carson to report the proceedings of the legislature, he signed his letters, " Mark Twain," a familiar call from the leadsman to the pilot of every Mississippi steamboat. In 1864 he was for a time reporter on the Morning Call, San Francisco, Cal., and afterward became a placer miner in Calaveras comity. He

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soon, however, returned to his more congenial work in San Francisco. His disposition for travel carried him to the Sandwich Islands in 1866, and he spent six months at Hawaii, writing up the sugar industries of the islands. Finding there little to encourage him in the way of permanent