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Volunteers, which was mustered in at Elraira 

 eight days later, when he was elected colonel. 

 The regiment was attached to the Army of the 

 Potomac, in which Col; Christian won the rep- 

 utation of being an excellent drill-master and a 

 strict disciplinarian. He commanded the regi- 

 ment in the engagements at Cedar Mountain, 

 Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, 

 Gainesville, the second Bull Run, Chantilly, 

 South Mountain, and Antietam. His experi- 

 ence as a civil engineer made him invaluable 

 in military councils, and his advice was often 

 sought by superior officers. He was brevetted 

 brigadier general after the second Bull Run, 

 and resigned his commission shortly after the 

 battle of Antietam. On his return to Utica 

 he resumed his occupation of civil engineering, 

 and continued it till he developed such marked 

 evidences of mental troubles that his friends 

 were compelled to place him in the Insane 

 Asylum, where he died. He was one of the 

 founders, and for years an active member of 

 the Oneida Historical Society 



Cilley, Joseph, an American lawyer, born in 

 Nottingham, N. H., Jan. 4, 1791 ; died there, 

 Sept. 16, 1887. He was a grandson of Gen. 

 Joseph Cilley, a Revolutionary hero and an 

 officer on Washington's staff. He entered the 

 army as an ensign in 1812, and took part in 

 the battles of Sackett's Harbor, Chippewa, and 

 Lundy's Lane. In the latter battle, while act- 

 ing as captain of the company of which he 

 was lieutentant, he was struck by a solid shot 

 during a charge and suffered a fracture of his 

 left thigh, which produced a permanent lame- 

 ness. At Detroit he lost the sight of an eye 

 by an explosion of powder in a magazine. He 

 resigned from the army in 1816, studied law, 

 and was admitted to the bar in his native 

 State. In 1827 he was appointed an aide on 

 the staff of Gov. Pierce, by which office he ob- 

 tained the title of colonel. In 1846 he was 

 nominated for Governor by the Whigs, but de- 

 clined. The same year he was elected by the 

 Legislature United States Senator, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of Leva 

 Woodbury. He was an abolitionist from his 

 youth, and was the first of that party to hold 

 a seat in the United States Senate. While 

 there he presented the first petition for the 

 abolition of slavery. At the close of his brief 

 term he retired to a farm, and he died in a 

 house that he built in 1824, the oldest ex-United 

 States Senator. 



Clark, Patrick, an American inventor, born in 

 Roscommon, Ireland, April 2, 1818 ; died in 

 Rahway, N. J., March 5, 1887. His father 

 emigrated to the United States with his family 

 in 1827. Within a few years Patrick lost both 

 parents and all of his brothers and sisters by 

 death. As he was thus left alone in the world, 

 he determined to learn a trade, and, walking 

 to Rahway, N. J., apprenticed himself as fire- 

 man's boy in Vreeland's iron-mill, where he 

 remained till 1840, becoming proficient in the 

 various branches of the industry. In 1847 he 



established an iron-foundry in partnership with 

 E. G. Scisco, subsequently conducting it alone 

 till induced to engage in the manufacture of 

 pasteboard. This venture led to his financial 

 embarrassment. He then studied land-survey- 

 ing and civil engineering. In 1857, when the 

 gas-works were projected, he superintended 

 the erection of the buildings and the construc- 

 tion of the machinery, retaining a connection 

 with the works till his death. Mr. Clark was 

 the inventor of many useful mechanical appli- 

 ance?, the most noted being a damper regula- 

 tor for steam-boilers, in almost universal use 

 to-day, for which he received the only gold 

 medal of the American Institute in 1852; a 

 multiple fan-blower ; a machine for manufact- 

 uring paper; an improved packing for pis- 

 tons; a dryer for pasteboards; a dryer for 

 oakum ; and a dynometer for preventing ex- 

 plosions in boilers, which was patented in 1885. 

 He was frequently engaged by inventors to 

 argue interference cases before the Commis- 

 sioner and Examiners in Washington. 



Clark, William Andlcy, an American banker, 

 born in Newport, R. I., in 1803 ; died there, 

 March 26, 1887. His father was Audley Clark, 

 well-known in financial circles for his connec- 

 tion with the Bank of Rhode Island from its 

 organization in 1795 till his death in 1844. 

 The son was placed at work in the bank when 

 fifteen years old. He became cashier in 1839 

 president in 1862, holding the latter office at 

 the time of his death. Mr. Clark was also 

 president of the first telegraph company that 

 ever stretched wires in Newport, and of the 

 Rhode Island Bridge Company ; a director, 

 with a life interest, of the Newport Library; 

 a leading Unitarian, and one of the largest 

 contributors to the fund for the erection of the 

 Channing Memorial Church. He furnished the 

 money for the second Liberty Tree erected at 

 the head of Thames Street, and inclosed it 

 with an iron fence. He was unmarried, and 

 in person and surroundings was exceedingly 

 old-fashioned, clinging to the bank furniture 

 that his father had purchased, and using to the 

 last a box of black sand in preference to blot- 

 ting-paper. 



Cleveland, Channcey Fitcb, an American lawyer, 

 born in Hampton, Conn., in 1799; died there, 

 June 6, 1887. He received a public-school 

 education, studied law, and was admitted to 

 the bar in 1819. In 1826 he was elected a 

 member of the General Assembly, and served 

 as such twelve years, during the period of 

 1826-'66, being elected Speaker in 1836, 1838, 

 and 1863. He was appointed Attorney for the 

 State in 1832 ; elected Governor in 1842-'43, 

 being chosen by the Legislature both years be- 

 cause of indecisive popular votes; and elected 

 a member of Congress in 1849, serving till 

 1853. In 1851 he was a Free-Soil Democrat, 

 and afterward was one of the founders of the 

 Republican party. He was a presidential 

 elector in 1860, and a member of the Peace 

 Congress of 1861. During the past twenty 



