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business, he returned to California and began his vocation as a humorous lecturer, his first audi- ences being the miners of that state and Nevada. He went to New York in 1867 and there published his "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras."' Tlie same year he joined a party of tourists in an excursion on the Quaker Cit>i to the old world, and on his return went to California, where he wrote out his experiences in book form under the title, "The Innocents Abroad."' The book had a phe- nomenal success. It took the reading public by storm and passed into American literature as a standard humorous work. He then became editor of the Express, Buffalo, N.Y. He was married in 1870 to Olivia L. Langdon of Elmira, N.Y., and in 1871 settled in Hartford, Conn. He was in constant demand as a platform lecturer and magazine correspondent. In 1872 he went to Europe on a lecturing tour and in 1884 estab- lished in New York -^ity the publishing house of C. L. Webster & Co., which firm assumed the publication of his works. In 1885 they brought out the " Memoirs of General Grant," which had the largest cir ulation of any popular subscrip tion book up to that time, paying to Mrs. Grant a copyright of §350,000. In 1893 the firm failed and Mr. Clemens was obliged to return to his pen and the lecture platform to recover his fallen for- tunes. He succeeded so well that in 1898 he had liquidated the entire indebtedness of the firm. In 1895-96 lie made the tour of the world, under direction of a lecture bureau, and in 1896 went to London, where he wrote " Following the Equator."' His works have all been republished in England, the earlier ones without his sanction, and many of them have been translated into Ger- man and French. Among his works are T7ie Innocents Abroad {18(3d); Bouf/hiiig It (1872); The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner, 1873) ; Adventures of Tom Saicyer (1876) ; Punch Brothers, Punch (1878) ; A Tramp Abroad (1880) ; The Stolen WhLe Elephant (1882) ;2%e Pri7ice and the Pauper (1882) ; Life on the Mississippi (1883) ; Adventures of Huckle- berry Finn (1885) ; A Library of Humor (1888) ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) ; The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins (1894) ; Personal Becol- lections of Joan <f Arc (1896) • Hmc to tell a Story, and Other Essays (1897); Follomng the Equator (1898). In 1899, a uniform edition of his works was published.

CLEMENS, Sherrard, representative, ^7as born in Wheelmg, Va., April 28, 1826; son of Dr James W. Clemens. He was graduated at Wash- ington college in 1841, was admitted to the bar in 1843 and practised in his native city, becoming prominent in local politics. He was a represen- tative in the 32d congress, serving from Decem- ber, 1852, to "March, 1853, and was subsequently

elected to the 35th and 36th congresses. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war and afterward practised law in Wheeling, W. "Va., and in St. Louis. Mo. He died in the latter city in 1874.

CLEMENT, Clara Erskine. author, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 28, 1834; daughter of John and Harriet (Godfrey) Erskine, and a descendant of the Erskines of Scotland. Her education was acquired by private instruction and by extensive travel, her pleasure tours taking her to almost ever J- known country. In 1868 she wrote for private circulation, " A Simple Story of the Orient," and in 1870 her career as an author began. By her marriage, Aug. 23, 1852, to James Hazen Clement, she had four sons and one daughter, of whom George Colburn Clement be- came a physician in Haverhill, Mass., and Ers- kine and Hazen Clement, brokers in Boston, Mass. Mr. Clement died in 1881. On May 20, 1882, she was married to Edwin Forbes Waters of Boston. Her published volumes include A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art (1871 ; 26th edition, 1895) ; In Memonam. Isabella Williamson Ch'eene (1872) ; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers end their Works (1874) ; Artists of the 19th Century and their Works; (with Laurence Hutton, 2 vols., 1879) : a transla- tion of Renan"s English Conferences : Bome and Christianity. Marcus Aurelius (1880) ; Egypt (1880) ; Charlotte Cushman (1882) ; An Outline History of Painting (1883) ; An Outline History of SculptuV': (1885) ; An Outline History of Architecture for Begin- ners and Students (1886) ; A Handbook of Christiar^ Symbols (1886); Stories of Art and Artists (1CS7); Hie Queen of the Adriatic ; or, Venice, Mediceval and Modern (1893) ; Xaples, the City of Parthenope, and Its Environs (1894) ; Constantinople, TJie City of the Sultans (1895) ; The Eternal City, Bume : Its Be- ligions, Monuments. Literature and Art (2 vols., 18J6) ; Angels in Art (1898).

CLEMENT, Edward Henry, journalist, wa.s born in Chelsea, Mass., April 19, 1843, son of Cyrus and Rebecca (Shortridge) Clem- ent, and a direct de- scendant of Robert Clement, who emi- grated from Cov- entry, England, in 1643, and settled in Haverhill, Mass. He was graduated from Tufts college in 1S64 and became reporter and assistant editor of an army newspaper at Head, S.C. After his retom to the north in 1867 he was employed for a short time as proof-