Clark
Clark names 11 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Clark CHAMP, an American Congressman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHAMP, an American Congressman; born in Anderson co., Ky., March 7, 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and has been in practice since that date. In 1878-1881 he was city attorney of Louisiana, and Bowling Green, Mo., and in 1885-1889 prosecuting attorney of Pike co. He was always active in politics, having been presidential elector in 1880, and a delegate to several national conventions. In 1893 he was elected to the 53d Congress, and was returned to the 55th and all others to the 67th. In 1911 he was made speaker of the House of Representatives to succeed Joseph G. Cannon and served until 1919. He has served on several important committees, and was vice-president of the Trans-Mississippi Congress at Denver. At the Democratic National Convention, held in Baltimore in 1912, he led on 27 ballots for the Presidential nomination, but was eventually defeated by Woodrow Wilson. He died Mar. 3, 1921.
Clark ALVAN, an American astronomical-instrument maker
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALVAN, an American astronomical-instrument maker; born in Ashfield, Mass., March 3, 1804. He was at one time a portrait painter in Boston; but in 1844 his attention was turned to telescope making. Two years later he definitely adopted the business of astronomical-instrument making, and in time achieved a world-wide reputation. His famous telescopes include the Chicago 182-inch, the Washington 26-inch, the Russian 30-inch, and the California 36inch. He died in Cambridge, Mass, Aug. 9, 1887. His son, ALVAN GRAHAM CLARK, born in Fall River, Mass., July 10, 10, 1832, 1832, received a grammar school education; and was associated with his father, and his brother, George, in the manufacture of telescopes. He supervised the construction of various famous lenses and made discoveries of stars with instruments of his own manufacture. He died in 1897.
Clark JOHN BATES, an American economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN BATES, an American economist; born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1847. He was graduated at Amherst in 1872, studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Zurich, and received degrees from several domestic and foreign univ gn universities. He was professor of political economy at Carleton College (1877-1881), Smith College assumed the merthair at Columbia (1882-1893), Amherst (1892-1895), and University in 1895. He was a member of many domestic and foreign scientific associations, one of the editors of the "Political Science Quarterly," and contributed many articles to economic reviews and journals. He also published: "Philosophy of Wealth" (1885); "Distribution of Wealth" (1895); "Control of Trusts" (1901); "Problem of Monopoly" (1904); "Essentials of Economic Theory" (1907); "Modern Distributive Process" (with F. H. Giddings); etc.
Clark CHARLES EDGAR, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES EDGAR, an American naval officer, born in Bradford, Vt., Aug. 10, 1843. He entered the naval service in 1860; took part in the battle of Mobile Bay and in the bombardment of Fort Morgan; and was promoted captain in 1896. In March, 1898, he took command of the battleship "Oregon" at the Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, and when war with Spain was deemed inevitable, he received orders to proceed to Key West, Fla., with all haste. After a most remarkable voyage of over 14,000 miles, he joined the American fleet in Cuban waters on May 26, and on July 3 commanded his ship at the destruction of Cervera's squadron. In 1902 he was promoted rear-admiral and retired in 1905.
Clark FRANCIS EDWARD, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS EDWARD, an American clergyman; born in Aylmer, Quebec, Sept. 12, 1851; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, and continued his studies at Andover Theological Seminary. He became pastor of a Congregational Church at Portland, Me., and there organized the first Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Feb. 2, 1881. In 1887 he was made president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, and president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, and also became editor of the "Christian Endeavor World," the official organ of the society. He was the author of many books on religious subjects as well as of books of travel, and published many leaflets, sermons, addresses, etc.
Clark EDGAR ERASTUS, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDGAR ERASTUS, an American public official, born at Lima, N. Y., in 1856. After being educated at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., he entered the railway service in 1873 and remained in that employment until 1889, when he became Grand Senior Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors of America. He was Grand Chief Conductor from 1890 to 1906. In 1902 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of a commission to determine the issues involved in the anthracite coal strike. In 1906 he was appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was re-appointed by President Wilson in 1913.
Clark or CLARKE, GEORGE ROGERS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or CLARKE, GEORGE ROGERS, an American pioneer; born near Monticello, Va., Nov. 19, 1752. He studied surveying, and settled in Ohio, serving in the Indian wars of that time and region. He removed to Kentucky in 1775, procuring the organization of that territory. On the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he led the patriot army on the frontier, campaigning against the British throughout Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky. His success in this saved much territory to the colonies in the final treaty of peace with Great Britain. He fell into penury in his latter years, and died in neglect near Louisville, Ky., Feb. 18, 1818.
Clark WILLIAM ANDREWS, an American capitalist and senator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM ANDREWS, an American capitalist and senator; born near Connellsville, Pa., Jan. 8, 1839. He was educated at Laurel Hill Academy, and at Mt. Pleasant University, in Iowa. After studying law and teaching school he settled in Montana in 1863, and acquired a great fortune in copper mining. He was the Democratic choice tana in 1890 and 1896, and in 1899 the Legislature elected him. In April, 1900, the United States Senate declared his election void; but his legislature re-elected him in in 1901 and he served until 1907. In his palatial home in New York City he has collected many rare paintings.
Clark LEWIS GAYLORD, an American journalist and humorous writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEWIS GAYLORD, an American journalist and humorous writer; born in Otisco, N. Y., March 5, 1810. In 1834 he became editor of the "Knickerbocker Magazine," and with Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Halleck, and Willis, as contributors, made it the foremost literary publication of that time, and an inspiration to a higher stan standard riodical literature. The "Editor's of periodical litera Table," written by him, overflowed with amusing stories and witty sayings. The "Knickerbocker Sketch-Book" (1850), and "Knick-Knacks from an Editor's Table" (1853), are his only publications in book form. He died in Piermont, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1873.
Clark CLARENCE DON, a United States Senator from Wyoming
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CLARENCE DON, a United States Senator from Wyoming, born in Oswego co., N. Y., in 1851. He graduated from Iowa State University, and after admission to the bar, practiced in Wyoming. He was chosen to the 51st and 52d Congresses, and in 1895 became United States Senator to fill a vacancy caused by the failure of the Legislature to elect. He was re-elected in 1898, in 1904, and in 1910, serving until 1917.
Clark WILLIS GAYLORD, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIS GAYLORD, an American poet, twin brother of Lewis Gaylord; born in Otisco, N. Y., March 5, 1810; became associate editor of the "Columbian Star," a religious weekly paper (1830), but resigned shortly after to take charge of the Philadelphia "Gazette." A complete edition of his poems, edited by his brother, appeared in 1847. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 12, 1841.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the eleven Clarks here, the ones that have grown in stature are not the ones Collier's dwelt on longest. The telescope makers Alvan Clark and his son Alvan Graham loom largest: the 36-inch objective Collier's calls "the California 36inch" is the Lick refractor, the firm went on to grind the 40-inch Yerkes lens that is still the largest refractor ever used for research, and the double star the son spotted while testing a lens in 1862, the companion of Sirius, was later understood to be a white dwarf, a class of dying star nobody in 1921 could have named. John Bates Clark, listed here as a Columbia professor with a shelf of books on wealth and monopoly, is now known chiefly through the John Bates Clark Medal, given to a leading American economist under forty and often a step toward the Nobel. Champ Clark, Speaker from 1911 to 1919, is remembered almost entirely for the fact the entry puts last, that he led on 27 ballots at Baltimore in 1912 and still lost to Wilson; Charles Edgar Clark's 14,000-mile dash in the Oregon became a standard argument for the Panama Canal, opened in 1914; and Francis Edward Clark's Christian Endeavor, a mass youth movement when this was written, has shrunk to a small remnant. George Rogers Clark, the frontier campaigner, keeps his place in American textbooks, as does his younger brother William of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Written for this edition, 2026.