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and >n the organization of tin- Republican piirty 



pr.'inplU unit'. I with it. ahd became -ii. i>! tin- in. .-I 



active exponents.'!' it.si.rineiplcs. For ten con.si-cuiiv.- 



. leeted a delegate to either State or owjntj 



COIIM ntioiiN and he became known a- tin- colored 



Hi- was a delegate to tin- national 



it ion of colored nifii In-Ill in Washington. 1*. < ., 



I; I ought tin- " Chicago Con-i i -valor" in l-.s-j. 



inliirtril it lor several \cars. rlrst as u lion 



.11 anil afterward us a Republican newspaper; 



ami in Iss;; was graduated at tin- Iowa Stuti- I. aw 

 SchiMil ami mlinitti-il to thr bar, after which In- livril 

 in Chicago. In August, lM'i>, In- was a|>)><)iiitril 

 1'iiitcd Stairs minister to thr republic of Liberia. 



Clark, Charles B., manufacturer, born in Tin -n ~a. 

 .Icil.T-on County, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1-11; il'u-il in 

 Wutcitown, i\. 'Y., Si-|.t. K', Is'.U. Hi- received a 

 common school education, ainl in Is.V. settled in 

 Neciiah, Wis., \\lu-n- lir engaged in manufacturing. 

 At thr beginning of the civil war hi- enlisted in 

 tin' .'1st Wisi-oiisin Intantry. with which In- si-rvi-il to 

 tin- eloM- of tin- war. In 188") ho was elected to the 

 Stair Assembly a.> a Republican, ami in issfj and 

 l--s was rli-i'ti-il to Congress from the t!th Wisconsin 

 District. While in ( 'ongivss In- was a ineinher of the 

 committees on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and on 

 Hivi-rs anil Harbors. 



Clark, Daniel, jurist, horn .in Stratham, N. II., Oct. 

 j. 1-".'; il'u-.l in Manchester, N. II., Jan. 2,1891. He 

 'adiiated at I >artmouth College in 1834, was 

 admitteil to the bar in 1837, and begun practicing in 

 Kpping. N. II. In IM;'.I he made his permanent 

 residence in Manchester, and soon became conspicu- 

 ous in public life. He served us a Whig in the Legis- 

 liitiin- in 1M-J, 1M:5, 1840, 1854, and 1855; was elected 

 t'nitcd States Senator in 1857, and re-elected in 1861 ; 

 was chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims; 

 Pivsiili-nt ITU t, in., of the Senate during the iii - 

 sion of the 38th Congress in 1863-'64- and resigned 

 his seat in July, 180C, to accept the office of United 

 Suites district judge. He held this oilier till his 

 deuth. In 1870 he was President ot the New Hamp- 

 shire Constitutional Convention. While in the 

 United States Senate he introduced, and supported 

 till its adoption, the resolution providing for tin- ex- 

 pulsion from the Senate of the Southern members 

 who had withdrawn on the secession of their States. 



Clark, Silas Moorhead, jurist, born in Elderton, 

 Armstrong County, Pa., m 1835: died in Indiana, 

 Pa., Nov. 20, 1891. He was graduated at Jefferson 

 College ; studied law and was admitted to the bar ; 

 \va> director of public schools in his town for twelve 

 years ; and was a projector and founder of the State 

 normal school there. In 1873 he was a member of 

 the State Constitutional Convention, and from 1882 

 till his death was a judge of the Supreme Court of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Clark, Simon Tucker, physician, born in Canton, 

 Mass., Oct 10, 1836; died in Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 

 24, 1891. He was graduated at the Berkshire Medical 

 College and at Genesee College, Lima, N. Y., settled 

 in Lockport to practice in 1861, and became a mem- 

 ber of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, the Jewell Scientific Society, the 

 Now York State Medical Society, the, Medico-h-iral 

 Society, and of the American Medical Association. 

 For six years he had been Professor of Medieal Juris- 

 prudence in Niagara University, Buffalo. Dr. Clark 

 was a well-known insanity expert, and originated the 

 term ' mania transitoria" in his testimony in the 

 Piercc-Bulloek murder case in Lockport in 1871. 



Ooe, Israel, manufacturer, born in Goshen, Conn., 

 Dee. 11. 17'.il;died iii Waterbury. Conn., Dec. 18, 

 1891. In !*_". he entered into' partnership with 

 Aaron Benediet, who formally years had been manu- 

 facturing bone and ivory buttons. About this time 

 the fashion in men's coat's changed t<> a snutl-colored 

 garment with gilt buttons, and the new firm deter- 

 mined to attempt to make the new style of buttons. 

 The basis ofSfhe buttons was sheet brass, which then 

 had to be imported from England. The flrm required 



thinner hict<- tliun thimc mllcd in K:.. 



iiiaMi- to obtain rolling., i.f the b.-.n : 

 to iiii|M>ri in cuttii-ii-ut i|tiaiitii\, 



eollii ti-d all llu- Worn out !'fa-n ketllial Mild 



hiiiiec pan* iii Wati-rburv and vii initv. i-ut them UK 

 nieltecf the pii-i-i-., with alloys, run the ma.-- into ruuc 

 mold,,, and with his own hands rollrd the lir-' 

 ol bra.-s ever ppiiliieed in the I niti-d StaV 

 iron rolling mill in Wo<Mlville, Conn. Wit! 

 sheet- the 11 rm begun maniifaeturilig tin- new style of 

 buttons, and also began the rolled-hniMM iiidu.-trv in 

 this country. They \M re .-,,n able to ,-n et a rolling 

 mill of their own and to siq.pU sheet liruc* for the 

 general trade. In !:; Mr. < o," , t -i .-t, d in Torring- 

 ton. Conn., a mill lor making brass kettles, and soon 

 afterward received a gold medal from the Federal 

 Government for making the tirst bra. kettle in this 

 count r\. In l-.".i>, | M . organi/ed the tirst eomj,an\ for 

 mining copper on a largi- scale in Michigan.' He 

 represented Wuterbury in the Legislature in 1824. 

 and was honored by tin- Legislature w itli a s|t-cial 

 reception and an engraved mem. .rial in 168.0. He 

 hud lived in retirement since 1880. 



Colbnm, Jeremiah, antiquary, Ixirn in Boston, Mas-., 

 Jan. 12, 1M.". ; died tin re. Dec. :;<, IMil. He received 

 a grammar-school education, entered mercantile life 

 in 1830. and carried on the hat and fur business from 

 1840 till 1852. In the latter year he wits appointed 

 an appraiser in the Boston custom-house, where 

 he remained through two administrations. He was 

 afterward engaged in literary work. When nftei-n 

 years old he began collecting coins, and subse- 

 quently extended his quest to medals, i/iinerals, 

 snellw, autographs, manuscripts, portraits, engravings, 

 colonial and continental money, paper tokens, bank 

 notes, counterfeit money, and b'ills' of broken bunks. 

 His collections became very large and vuluui- 

 pecially in Americana, lie was an early member of 

 the New England Historico-Gcnealogicul Society ; 

 was a founder of the Prince Society, and su|H-r\i-cd 

 the publication of Wood's u New England's Prospect" ; 

 was a founder and President of the Boston Numis- 

 matic Society, and an editor of the " American Jour- 

 nal of Numismatics " ; and was also a founder of the 

 Boston Antiquarian Club, changed in l^vj to the 

 Bostoniun Society. He compiled a "Bibliography of 

 the Local History of Massachusetts." 



Coles, Abraham, physician, born in Scotch Plains, 

 N. J., Dec. 26, 1813 ; died near Monterey, Cal., May 3, 

 1891. When seventeen years old he became tutor of 

 Latin and mathemutics iii the Pluintield, N. J., Sem- 

 inary : subsequently he studied -law for six months, 

 and in 1835 he 

 was graduated at 

 Jefferson Medical 

 College in Phila- 

 delphia ; and he 

 began a practice 

 of medicine and 

 surgery in Newark 

 that was contin- 

 ued there till with- 

 in a few veurs of 

 his death, 'in 1848, 

 during a trip to 

 F.urope. he spent 

 much time work- 

 ing and studying 

 in the hospitals of 

 Paris during the 

 Revolution. He 

 made a second 



visit to F.urope in 18M. Besides numerous transla- 

 tions, he wrote largely on literary, medical, and scieii- 

 titic subjects; took a keen interest in promoting Wai 

 and general education; and became proficient in 

 Greek. Hebrew, Sanskrit, and the modern Ian. 

 In I-''.'', he was President of the New Jersey Medical 

 Society, and his formal address was aj'h\-l 



|MK-m,"- 4 The MicrocoMn." His publications , ipnse 



a translation of the Dies lra.' V (lN47>; "Dies Ire, 



