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OBITUARIES, AMKUICAN. M'LAKK 







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Clark. Alvan (iraham .^'ronomer. J...rnin Fall 

 !&, July HI. IK*.*; died in ( ami.: 



Mass.. June . 1887. He was a son of Alvan dark. 

 the fa- ianand manufacturer of tele* 



and after acquir nnar-sch.M.l edu a: K-II be- 



came associa' el with hi- father under the firm i 

 ..f A 1 van Clark ft Sow. The superiority ..f the!. 

 made by the firm wait first brought the attention 

 of astronomer- l.y t r*. & Dewea, who in- 



troduced several of the Instrument* abroad ! 

 years -p' 1 'hat >" l(i ' 



was a 15-ineh n instrument made in Ku- 



od the United States bad produced nothinc 



:.|ire with it. In IvV.i tin- < larks began 

 i-> with an ajM-rturc 'f 18 



f Mississippi, luit the civil war 

 prevented its salv to that institution, and it Itccarae 

 \ of the Astronomical Societyof Chicago. 

 With thi* instrument Alvan (inihani Clark discov- 

 ion of Siriiis. for which tin- French 

 Academy awarded him a medal. The next I.. 



throne made fT Princeton College 

 Observatory. In l^Tothe firm c.intra-i-.l wit h the 

 .ites Government for a telescope for tho 

 Naval Observatory, to IK? the largest in existence. 

 The origin T called f.-ran instrument with 



a 84-inch aperture, hut as an English instrument if 

 25 inches had just been completed the contra* ' 

 changed to 26 inches. On the completion of this 

 telescope, with which Prof. Asaph Hall disco 

 that Mar> had two satellites, the firm made another 

 of the sat; r the I'nivcrsity of Virginia. 



known as the McCormick telescope. Then came the 

 great 90-inch instrument for the im|H-rial <!- 

 tory a which the Kui|N>n>r pre- 



sented Mr. Clark with a p. Id medal weighing half 

 a pound. In 1880 an order for the most powerful 

 telescope in the world was completed for the Lick 

 Observatory. at Mount Hamilton. Cal.. with the 

 aperture of :JO inches. With this instrument tin- 

 fifth satellite of .Jupiter was discovered. Afterward 

 Mr. Clark had made a 20-inch lens for Denver I "ni- 

 v. one of 24 inches for Pcrcival Lowell, one 

 ^rvard Observatory station 



at Arequipa, Peru, and, the greatest of all ever com- 

 pleted, the wonderful Yerke- Jen- of 40 inci 

 gift of Charles T. Yerke- to the Chicago I'nivcrHt y. 

 formally installed in the observatory at Lake Ge- 

 neva. Wis.. in 1897. Mr. Clark was a member of i he 

 -erve the eclipse of the sun at Shcl- 

 byville. Ky.. in "f the eel ij>se expeditions 



vain, iti 1*70. and to Wyoming in 1878, 

 and had made manv discoveries of double stars. 



i'lark. .lames (towdy. balladist, born in < 'on- 



stanti. V V . Jon 1 in Pasadena. 



- '?. He iN'caine favorably 



known as a concert singer, song writer, and poet 

 early in life, and in his career was closely associated 

 w.th 0-,-ian K. Dodge, George P. Morris, Nathaniel 

 l. Willie nd oth., the day. He had a 



and sang his own compositions with 

 great effectiveness. Among his most popular songs 



: Mountain Tree." "The i 



tin* of L I'..." l-V.-.-dom's I'mttle Hymn." 



Children of the Battlefield." "The Beautiful 



StM of my Soul." 



which was sung at \i\~ funeral. Mr. Clark served 



i the civil war in a New York regiment. 

 Clark. Lew in i;corre. ex-slave, born in ; 



.aU.ut inn; died in Li-xington. K 

 1897. He was a son of Daniel Clark by" a mulatto 

 woman; was brought up in slavery; escaped to 

 Oberlin. Ohio, in 1H41 : ami spent many years in 

 lertnring through the North against slavery. About 

 four years ago he returned t- ;i . and for 



some* time he was Hipj>or1ed by charity. Clark 

 bad claimed for many years thai he was the origi- 



nal of th. in " I'nde 



claim, in brief, was set forth 

 as follows: I OMM '- Man.-- where 1 si 

 nearly two year- Ir.-turin- aL r ain-t >la\.-r\. 'in 

 1844 I was sent for ,, .'port. 



M\ home wan . 9. Salford'S, huring her 



tther, wh- 



dent i\.:it Ualliii! H ill. Cineililiat 1, 



cameli;i-i and made t he SalTord house their stop- 

 M >dical aliolitioii- 



re would sit in th" parlor and a^k me 

 When she got through -he would go oil 



to her room and note down what 1 had -aid. and 



then she would . n. She tokl roe afterward 



that 1 is 1 hat it was ^< 



ally very hard to g.-t anything from a -lave, but 

 that I was inclined to talk, ami she was glad to 

 learn many Ihini;- that I could tell her. She fur- 

 ther said i ' 'llccted t he facts, thinking that 



they might become useful at sonic lime." Alter 

 many denial* of ihi- claim. Mrs. Siowe. ii 



tin:; i' : "I wish to saytha' ;;arris 



ha- ii" living prototype. I created him." Clark, 

 h'-wever. p.'i--i-ted in his claim, and im: 

 many with its truthfulness that after hi- death his 



iay in state in the Auditorium in I 

 the first time that a negro had been so honored in 

 Kentucky. 



din-man Thomas l.nnier :. born in 



1Iunts\ille. N. <'.. .Inly:.'?. l^TJ: dieil in Morgan- 

 town. [897. H- iraj graduated as 



first -honor man at the I'niver-ityof North < 

 lina in l^?'-*. studied law, and entered political 

 life as a Whig member of the Legislature when 

 twenty-three years old. In 1 *:;' lie i. 



A-heville. N. (''.. where he wa> elected to the ! 



Senate four years afterward. At this |>eriod he was 

 known as a brilliant speaker and a remarkably able 

 deliat'T. In consequence ( .f a memoralile dCliati- 

 with Charles (;. Mcmminger. of South Carolina, af- 

 terward Seeivtary of the Confederate Trea-urv. he 



Dfl one of the foremost of Southern \\ 

 In 1843 he was elected to Congress, and, with the 

 exception of one term, he served continuously till 

 During this service he wa- one of the iii'.-t 

 active and con-taut members of the Hoii-e. II, 

 took part in the discussion of all important D 

 mv-. frequently jrovoking per-nal eneoiinters by 

 his can-tic language, and was part ieiilarlv outspoken 

 against the Hulwcr-Claytoii treaty. l\\< api 

 inent to the chairmanship of the Committee on Kor- 

 ciirn Affairs gave him a powerful inllm-ncc. and 

 brought him to his feet whenever an Internationa] 

 jue-tion was under discii ion. lie was an it. 

 admirer and supporter of Henry Clay, and his com- 

 ment- on his friend's defeat led to a harmless dud 

 between him-elf and William L. Tancej, <! 

 bama. In 1*">* he was appointed t'liited | 

 Senator to fill the vacancy cau-e.l by the appojnt- 

 inent of B< _ ; s as United State- judire 



for the district of North Carolina, and afterward he 

 was elected for the term beginning March 1. isiii ; 

 but in .January of the last year he withdrew from 

 the Senate, and in July was expelled therefrom with 

 other Southern members who had withdrawn with- 

 renignations. Soon after withdraw- 

 ing from the Senate he entered the Confe ; 

 army as a colonel : in 1862 was commi ioncd i 

 dier general HI: mmand of four regiments 



rth Carolina infantry: and in April. lsfi.". he 

 surrendered with (Jen. .I--"ph K. .lohn-tou. His 



articipation in national politics was as a dele- 



to the National Democratic Convention of 

 1868. In his last years adver-ity overtook him. 



<'liti!_ r man irave nni'-h attention to scientific 

 and literary pursuits. He mea-ure<l the highest 

 point of the Black mountain, since known as Cling- 



