These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Clarissa Harlowe, Clark.
a novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It is in seven volumes, and the progress of events is narrated in letters written by the principal characters to each other and to friends. The book is named for its heroine. It is considered Richardson's masterpiece. See Richardson ; Novel
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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