Clark (VII)
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.
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Clark (VIII)
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.
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Clark College
an institution for higher education, founded at Worcester, Mass., in 1902. It was endowed by Jonas G. Clark with $1,300,000 and was granted existing Clark University. It is legally the collegiate department of the University, but under the terms of the will of the founder, it is a completely independent organization. In 1918 there were 184 students and 25 members of the faculty. President, Edmund C. Sandford.
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Clark University
an institution at Worcester, Mass., founded in 1887 by Jones Gilman Clark, and devoted exclusively to post-graduate work. At the close of the school year 1919 the university reported: professors, 21; stu- ; volumes in the library, 85,000; dents, 106; dents, 106 president, G. Stanley Hall, LL. D.
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Clark, Alvan
Alvan (1804-1887), a maker of astronomical instruments. With his son, Alvan G. Clark (1832-1897), he formed the firm of Clark and Son of Cambridge, Massachusetts, known the world over for telescopes of great delicacy and power. The more interesting of their telescopes may be mentioned. One, bearing an object glass with an aperture or diameter of eighteen and one-half inches, is owned by the astronomical society of Chicago. The Naval Observatory at Washington has a twenty-six inch Clark telescope. Cyrus McCormick, the maker of reapers, gave a large Clark to the University of Virginia. A thirty-inch instrument was made for the Imperial Observatory at St. Petersburg; a thirty-six inch for the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, California, and lastly a forty-inch object glass was ordered by C. T. Yerkes for the University of Chicago Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The Yerkes lens is the most powerful in existence. It brings the moon within an apparent distance of a few miles from the observer. It requires the purest of glass and the work of years to bring one of these lenses to perfection. The finish is so delicate and so perfect that a single careless touch with the end of one's finger would ruin the surface and render the glass useful only for a smaller lens. See Telescope
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Clark, George Rogers
George Rogers (1752-1818), an American soldier and pioneer. He was a native of Virginia. In 1775 he settled in Kentucky. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a leader in the midst of the Indian warfare waged in the Ohio Valley. He defended Harrodsburg against the combined attack of British and Indians. In 1778-9 he led a force of Kentucky riflemen across the Ohio to the capture of Kaskaskia on the Mississippi. From this post he marched eastward to surprise the British at Fort Vincennes on the Wabash. This cross country march of a small force, floundering through deep snow or wading waist deep in icy water to attack a superior foe intrenched in comfort, is one of the most notable, as well as successful, expeditions on record. At the conclusion of peace it gave the United States a title to the Mississippi Valley by virtue of conquest and occupancy. In his latter days, as is too often the case, Clark's services were forgotten. He became a drunkard, fell into want, and died near Louisville in utter neglect. Good portraits are given in Churchill's The Crossing, Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes, and Roosevelt's Winning of the West.
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Clark, William
William (1770-1838), an American explorer. A brother of George Rogers Clark. He migrated from Virginia to the present site of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1808, he was appointed to the joint command of the Lewis and Clark expedition , sent by Jefferson to explore the upper waters of the Missouri, and the great Northwest. Clark's journal of the trip from St. Louis through the mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon is full of thrilling anecdotes. It is better reading than any story of Indian adventure. He died at St. Louis. See Lewis
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Clarke
CHARLES COWDEN, an English prose-writer and poet; born in Enfield, Middlesex, Dec. 15, 1787; produced "Tales from Chaucer" and "Shakespeare's Characters," besides lectures and essays innumerable; and "Carmina Minima," a volume of verse. He died in Genoa, March 13, 1877.
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Clarke
JOHN HESSIN, resigned from the Supreme Court September, 1922, to devote himself to the advancement of American participation in the League of Nations.
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Clarke
FRANK WIGGLES- WORTH, an American scientist; born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1847. He was graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, in 1867; was Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Cincinnati from 1874 to 1883, and in 1883 became chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey and honorary curator of minerals, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. He was a member of many domestic, foreign, and international commissions and scientific societies, received several honorary degrees and medals, and published numerous books and papers on chemical, mineralogical, and geological topics.
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Clarke (II)
JAMES FREEMAN, an American Unitarian clergyman and author; born in Hanover, N. H., April 4, 1810. In 1852, together with Emerson and William H. Channing, he prefor United States Senator from Mon-pared the "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller d'Ossoli." His chief work was "Ten Great Religions" (1871-1883). Among his other publications were "Self-Culture" (1882); "Anti-Slavery Days" (1884); "Every-Day Religion" (1886); and "Vexed Questions" (1886). He died quent productions were his discussions in Boston, Mass., June 8, 1888.
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