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from the ship models in his father's shipyards, wlien the decline of shipping interests occurred in 1860 and he was obliged to seek employment elsewhere. He studied architecture with Snell & Gregerson, Boston, Mass., 1863-69, and in 1869 opened an office on his own account. In 1873 he ■was elected city architect of Boston, being the first to hold that position. He organized the department, and during his ten years' term of office inany notable buildings were erected by the city from his jDlans. Prominent among these were the English high and Latin schools (1877), in which he introduced the German sj'stem of constructing the building around an open court ; and the Prince school, completed in 1881, apply- ing the same principle of plan to small buildings. He designed the Marcella Street home; the pmnping station building and all the buildings connected with the Sudbury river water supply ; the Lyman school for boys, Boston, Mass. ; the Bridgewater state workhouse ; the Westboro and Northampton insane asylums: the Durfee me- morial building. Fall River. Mass. ; the Bridge acadenay, Dresden, Maine ; Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. ; and the Suffolk county courthouse at Boston, Mass., besides many buildings of import- ance outside the state. In 1876 he was mar- ried to Amelia M., daughter of Lyman Hinckly of Thetford, Vt.

CLOVER, Lewis Peter, painter, was born in New York city, Feb. 20, 1819; son of Lewis P. and Bridgette (Murphy) Clover; grandson of Peter and Martha (Coojier) Clover; and a de- scendant of Peter Clover of Salisbury, England, and of Ashley- Cooper. He was educated in his native city and at the College of St. James near Hagerstown, Md., studied painting with William Page and Asher B. Durand and established studios in New York city and Baltimore, Md.

He was married Sept. 7,

1840, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Matthew Van Benschoten Ack- erman. He was elect- ed an associate Na- tional academician in 1840. He exhibited at the Academy ' ' The Rejected Picture," "The Idle Man,"' " Repose by Moon- light," and "The Phrenologist." He entered the ministrj^ of the Protestant Episcopal church at

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Chief Justice Taney, in 1850, and was rector of Grace memorial church, Lexington, Va., 1851-53; of St. John's

church, Johnstown, N.Y., 1855-57; of St. Paul's church, Springfield, 111., 1857-65, and of St. Stephen's church, Milburn, N.J., 1873-81. He edited a reprint of BurneVs Practical Hints on Composition in Painting (1853) and furnished etchings to illusti'ate the work. He delivered a notable address on the death of Chief Justice Taney which was ijublished in 1864. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1858. He died at New Hacken- sack, N.Y.. Nov. 11, 1896.

CLOVER, Richardson, naval officer, was born at St. James college, Hager.stown, Md., July 11, 1846; son of the Rev. Dr. Lewis P. and Sarah Ann (Ackerman) Clover, grandson of Matthew V. B. Ackerman, who \vas the nephew and adopted son and heir of Matthew Van Ben- schoten, who was a grandson of Tuenis Elias Van Benschoten, \\'ho came from Hol- land and settled in Dutchess county, N. Y., about 1640. On his father's side he was the great^ grandson of Peter Clover who came from England early in the eighteenth century and settled in Morris county, N.J. Richardson was appointed a midshipman in the navy in Jul}-, 1863, and was graduated at Annapolis in June, 1867, when he Avas ordered to the Susque- hanna, in the West Indies. He was promoted ensign Dec. 18, 1868, and assigned to the flagship Albany of the North Atlantic station, serving 1868-69; was at the naval observatory, 1869-70; promoted master, March 21, 1870; lieutenant, March 21, 1871 ; was on board the Ticonderoga, South Atlantic station, 1871-74; on the Hassler coast survey, Pacific coast, 1874-77; on board the Wyoming as navigator on European station, 1878-81 ; was chief of party engaged in surveying Long Island Sound, 1882-83; had chai'ge of sur- vey of southeast Alaska, 1884-86 ; was navigator on board U.S.S. Pensacola, North Atlantic station, 1887 ; and was executive officer on board the Dol- phin, 1888-89, making a cruise around the world. He was pi'omoted lieutenant-commander, Maj- 19, 1891. He was hydrographer to the navy, 1889- 93; was executive officer of the Chicago on the European station, 1894-96; %vas in command of the Doiphin, North Atlantic station, 1896-97; was promoted commander, 1897, and was chief of the office of naval intelligence and a member of the war and strategy boards at the time of the decla- ration of war with Spain, 1898, and at his urgent request was detached and assigned to active duty