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and surrendered with General Lincoln on May 12, 1780. He "was held a prisoner in Charleston until the spring of 1781, when he was paroled. He was married Feb. 13, 1783, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Hite, Sr. They settled in Spotsylvania county, Va., and in 1793 Colonel Clark was commissioned a major-general of Virginia militia. In 1803 he joined his brother, George Rogers, at the falls of the Ohio, settling at Trough Spring, near Louisville, Ky., where he accumulated a large property which he left to his widow and six surviving children. He died suddenly at his home near Louisville, Ky., Nov. 25, 1811.

CLARK, Laban, clergyman, was born in Haverhill, N.H., July 19, 1778. He was educated at an academy at Bradford, Vt. In 1800 he began to preach; joined the New York Methodist conference in 1801 and for fifty years was an itinerant preacher. He was instrumental in the

formation of the missionary society of the M.E. church, established in 1819. He actively interested himself in the formation of a Methodist college and procured the necessary endowments for Wesleyan university, which was established at Middletown, Conn., in 1831, and which in 1853 conferred upon him the degree of D.D. He served as president of its board of trustees until his death at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 28, 1868.

CLARK, Lewis Gaylord, journalist, was born at Otisco, Onondaga county, N.Y., in 1810; son of a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and twin brother of Willis Gaylord Clark. He went to New York city, where he engaged in literary work, and from 1834 to 1859 edited the Knickerbocker Magazine, which had been established in 1833, but was not prospering, even with Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Longfellow, and Willis as contributors. In 1855 "The Knickerbocker Gallery," a volume of contributions by the writers for the Knickerbocker, with portraits, edited by Francis, Griswold, Kimball, Morris and Shelton, was published for his benefit. The proceeds from the sale went far toward the purchase of a home at Piermont-on-the-Hudson. The Knickerbocker was the pioneer of advanced literary taste and the immediate cause of a higher class of popular periodical effort. While an educator, it failed of sufficient support, and in 1859, owing to financial mismanagement, it became bankrupt. Mr. Clark was for some time employed in the New York custom house and continued his literary work for the press up to the time of his death. He was one of the originators of the Century association and a member of the St. Nicholas society. He published the Knickerbocker Sketch Book (1850), and Knick-knacks from an Editor's Table (1852). He died at Piermont, N.Y., Nov. 3. 1873.

CLARK, Lewis Whitehouse, jurist, was born in Barnstead, N.H., Aug. 19, 1838; son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Whitehouse) Clark; and grandson of Jonathan and Sarah (Priest) Clark. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1850; was a teacher in Pittsfield academy, 1850–52; was admitted to the bar in 1852; was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1856–57; attorney-general of the state, 1873–76, justice of the supreme court of the state, 1877–98, and chief justice from June 1 to August 19, 1898, when he retired, having attained the age of seventy years. He was married Dec. 29. 1853, to Helen, daughter of William and Betsy (Drake) Knowlton. The Rev. John Lew Clark was their son. Judge Clark died at Manchester, N.H., May 28, 1900.

CLARK, Lincoln, representative, was born in Conway, Mass., Aug. 9, 1800; son of Elisha and Lucinda (Keith) Clark. He was graduated at Amherst in 1835; taught in North Carolina and Virginia, 1835–31: practised law in Pickensville, Ala., 1831–36, and served in the state legislature in 1834, 1835 and 1845. He resided in Tuscaloosa, 1836–47, and was attorney-general of the state in 1839 and judge of the circuit court in 1846. He was a lawyer in Dubuque, Iowa, 1848–63, and a representative from Iowa in the 33d congress, 1851–53. He then removed to Chicago where he practised law until 1866, when he was made register in bankruptcy. In 1869 he returned to Conway. Mass., where he died, Sept. 16, 1886.

CLARK, Marvin R., journalist, was born in New York city, Jan. 5, 1840; son of Benjamin Franklin and Margaret J. Clark. He was educated at private schools, and at the Mechanics' society school, from which institution he was graduated in 1856. He early began to write and in 1861 joined the staff of the New York Sunday Dispatch. He became successively editor and publisher of different daily and weekly newspapers, notable among which were the Evening Press, the Canard, and Truth. To the last named publication he contributed the celebrated "Trumpeter" papers, of which the authorship was generally attributed to the former mayor,