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 negotiated a treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians in Georgia. He was founder and president of the Academy of fine arts and of the Bank of Philadelphia; vice-president of the Pennsylvania agricultural society, and the author of various political, literary and scientific essays and addresses. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Riese Meredith of Radnorshire, Wales, friend of Washington and the father of Gen. Samuel Meredith, first treasurer of the United States. He died in Morrisville, Pa., Jan. 23, 1813.  CLYMER, Hiester, representative, was born in Caernarvon township, Berks county. Pa., Nov. 3, 1827; son of Edward Tilghman and Maria Catharine (Hiester) Clymer; grandson of Col. Daniel Cunyngham Clymer; great-grandson of William and Anna (Roberdeau) Clymer; and great2 grandson of Richard Clymer, a merchant and shipbuilder of Philadelphia, who came from Bristol, England, in 1705. Hiester prepared for college at Reading. Pa., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1847. He was admitted to the bar of Berks county, April 6, 1849; in 1851 went to Pottsville, Pa., where he practised for five years, and in is.j6 returned to Reading. He was a member of the board of revenue commissioners in 1860, a delegate to the Democratic national convention in the same year, and also in 1868; was elected to the state senate to fill a vacancy in 1860; was elected for the full term in 1861 and was re-elected in 1864. In March, 1866, he was nominated as candidate for governor of Pennsylvania and at once resigned his seat in the senate. He was defeated by John W. Geary after receiving a larger number of votes than had ever before been given to any Democratic candidate for the office. He was a member of the state board of public charities in 1870; and president of the Democratic state convention in 1872. He was a representative in the 43d, 44th, 45th and 48th congresses, 1873-81. He was married in 1856, to Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Matthew Brooke. He died in Reading, Pa., June 12, 1884.  CLYMER, Meredith, physician, was born in London, England, June 6, 1817; son of George and Maria Gratiot (O'Brien) Clymer; and grandson of George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the framers of the Federal constitution. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, 1832-34, was graduated from the medical department in 1837, and continued his medical studies in Paris, London and Dublin, 1839-41. He practised his profession in Philadelphia, where lie was lecturer on physiology at the Medical institute, 1843; professor at Franklin medical college, 1845, and at Hampton Sidney college, Va., 1848-49. He settled in New York city in 1851 and was professor of the institutes and practice of medicine at the University of the

city of New York, 1851, and of mental and nervous diseases at the Albany medical college, 1871-74. During his residence in Philadelphia he was physician to the Institution for the blind, and attending and consulting physician to the Philadelphia hospitals. He was surgeon, U.S.V., 1861-65; medical officer in charge of sick and wounded U.S. officers, Washington, D.C.. 1862-63, and medical director in the department of the south, 1864-65, holding the commission of major, 1861, and that of brevet lieu- tenant-colonel, 1865, in the U.S. volunteer army. He was one of the founders of the Franklin medical college, Philadelphia; president of the Neurological society. New York, 1874-76; vice-president of the Alumni society, medical department. University of Pennsylvania, 1875-97, president, 1897-99, and an honorary member of the Association of American physicians. He contributed valuable papers to the various medical journals, edited several medical works, and is the author of Williams' and Clymer's Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (1844); The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Fevers (1846); Notes on the Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System with Reference to Clinical Medicine (1868); Lectures on Palsies and Kindred Disorders (1870); Ecstasy and other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System (1870); Hereditary Genius (1870); Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (1872); The Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility (1874); Atkin's Practice of Medicine (edited 1866-68-70).  COAKLEY, George Washington, educator, was born in St. Bartholomew, W.I., Feb. 22, 1814; son of Henry Coakley. He was graduated from Rutgers college, A.B., in 1836, and studied at the General theological seminary, New York, in the class of 1843. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy in St. James college, Md., 1840-60; professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in the University of the city of New York, 1860-84, and of mathematics and astronomy, 1884-93. He received the degree of LL.D. from Rutgers in 1856. He was married Sept. 14, 1861, to Isabella Hoe, daughter of Cornelius Godfrey, and made his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a member of the Brooklyn astronomical society and author of Tidal Theory of the Forms of Comets (1860); and papers on astronomical subjects in the Siderial Messenger, Astronomy 