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OBITUARIES. AMERICAN. (CILLEY CLARKE.) 



of Boston, having been at one time president of 

 the Chickering Club and later a member of the 

 Apollo Club. 



Cilley, Bradbury Longfellow, educator, born 

 in Nottingham, N. H., Sept. 6, 1838; died in Exe- 

 ter N. H., March 31, 1899. He was graduated 

 at Harvard College in 1858. After teaching m the 

 Albany High School a year, he went to 1 hillips 

 Exeter Academy as Professor of Ancient Lan- 

 guages in February, 1859. The institution then 

 had fewer than 100 students, and, as Prof. Cilley 

 expected to hold the chair for a short time only, 

 he began his new work and the study of law 

 simultaneously. With his coming, however, a 

 new life was infused in the famous academy, and 

 his term was prolonged to the end of his lite 

 He taught both Greek and Latin till 18/1, and 

 afterward confined himself to the former. 



Clapp Alexander Hunting-ton, clergyman, 

 born in Worthing! on. Mass., Sept. 1, 1818; died 

 in New York city, April 27, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 1842 and at Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1845. In 1846 he occupied 

 the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature in 

 Middlebury (Vt.) College temporarily, and, de- 

 clining the permanent professorship, was or- 

 dained pastor of the Central Congregational 

 Church at Brattleboro, Vt. An affection of the 

 eves caused him to suspend preaching in 1853, 

 but in 1855 he took the pastorate of the Benefi- 

 cent Congregational Church in Providence, R. I. 

 During a leave of absence from his church in 1862 

 he served as chaplain of the 10th Rhode Island 

 Volunteers. From 1865 till 1878 he was secre- 

 tary of the Home Missionary Society in New York 

 city, and on resigning that office was elected 

 treasurer of the society, which charge he held 

 till his death. He was for many years editor of 

 The Home Missionary, and from 1875 till 1895 

 was the New York editor of The Congregational- 

 ist of Boston. He received the degree of D. D. 

 from Iowa College in 1868. While a student at 

 Andover Seminary he edited a selection from the 

 writings of Bishop Joseph Hall, and while at 

 Brattleboro, Vt., he edited Lives of the Presi- 

 dents and others works. Several of his sermons 

 and addresses have been published, and he con- 

 tributed frequently to magazines and to the re- 

 ligious press. 



Clapp, Almon M., journalist, born in Killing- 

 ly, Conn., Sept. 14, 1811; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 9, 1899. His parents removed to Liv- 

 ingston County, New York, when he was seven 

 years old, and when he was fourteen he was appren- 

 ticed to the printer's trade. In 1835 he founded 

 the Aurora Standard, in 1838 became editor and 

 part proprietor of the Buffalo Commercial Ad- 

 vertiser, and in 1846 established the Buffalo Ex- 

 press. Mr. Clapp was a delegate to the conven- 

 tion at Pittsburg in 1856, where the Republican 

 party was formally organized, and after the elec- 

 tion of President Lincoln he was appointed post- 

 master of Buffalo. In 1866 President Johnson 

 removed him from this office. Three years later 

 he was elected congressional printer, and he held 

 the office till 1877. On removing to Washington 

 he sold the* Buffalo Express, and on the expira- 

 tion of his term he purchased the National Re- 

 publican and edited it till 1880, when he retired 

 from active life. He was president of the Anti- 

 Civil Service League. 



Clark, Meriwether Lewis, sportsman, born in 

 Louisville, Ky., in 1846; died in Memphis, Tenn., 

 April 22, 1899. His life was principally spent in 

 his native city, where he engaged in the banking 

 business and accumulated a modest fortune. For 

 twenty-five years his life was almost wholly de- 



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voted to promoting the American turf, and his 

 character is best attested by the fact that during 

 this period no breath of scandal ever assailed his 

 name. He was the author of a majority of the 

 turf rules or laws of the present day, the founder 

 of the first American Turf Congress, the maker 

 of the first uniform scale of weights, and the 

 pioneer in a system of stakes and races that has 

 been followed by every race track in the country. 

 Mr. Clark was also the organizer of the Louis- 

 ville Jockey Club. 



Clarke, John Sleeper, actor, born in Balti- 

 more, Md., Sept, 3, 1833; died near London, Eng- 

 land, Sept. 24, 1899. In childhood he was closely 

 associated with the family of the elder Booth, 

 whose daughter Asia he subsequently married. 

 With the Booth boys he formed an amateur dra- 

 matic society and gave a performance before the 

 friends of the family at Belair, Md., in the county 

 courthouse, Aug. 2, 1850, at which he and 

 Edwin Booth made their debut together in Shake- 

 sperean readings, the latter selecting Richard III, 

 Macbeth, Hamlet, and Richelieu, and Clarke 

 Shylock and Otway's Jaffier, and the boys ap- 

 peared together in the quarrel scene from Julius 

 Ca3sar, Booth as Brutus and Clarke as Cassius. 

 Mr. Clarke's father died in 1836, and, as he had 

 designed the boy for the bar, young Clarke, after 

 a fairly good education, entered a law office. But 

 the drama was more attractive, and in the au- 

 tumn of 1851 he made his first appearance at the 

 Howard Athenasum, Boston, playing the part, of 

 Frank Hardy in Paul Pry. He remained until 

 the end of the season in that theater, doing the 

 usual work of a beginner in a stock company, 

 and at the opening of the season of 1852-'53 

 became a member of the company of the Chestnut 

 Street Theater, Philadelphia, where he entered 

 upon a three years' prosperous sojourn on Aug. 

 28 in the part of Soto in Colley Gibber's comedy 

 She Would and She Would Not. John Drew, 

 the elder, then the leading comedian of that thea- 

 ter, relinquished his place in January, 1853, and 

 Mr. Clarke was intrusted with its responsibili- 

 ties. He was eminently successful, and in the 

 autumn of 1854 went to Baltimore as the come- 

 dian of the Front Street Theater, where for a 

 season he was enthusiastically applauded in all 

 the parts of standard comedy. He became first 

 comedian of the Arch Street Theater, Philadel- 

 phia, where he remained in very popular estima- 

 tion for three years. In 1858 he entered into 

 partnership with William W 7 heatleigh in the man- 

 agement of that theater. He began during this 

 year to make short tours as a star through the 

 South, meeting .everywhere with large and de- 

 lighted audiences. On April 29, 1859, he mar- 

 ried Asia Booth at Baltimore. In 1861 he re- 

 tired from the management of the Arch Street 

 Theater and went to New York, where he ap- 

 peared for the first time on May 15 of that year 

 at the Metropolitan Theater. His first part 

 was Diggory in The Specter Bridegroom. Mr. 

 Ireland, in his History of the New York Stage, 

 says of this dbut: " He was not merely a success; 

 he was a revelation " ; and George William Cur- 

 tis wrote of him in Harper's Weekly: " I consider 

 Clarke by far the finest artist who has been seen 

 on our boards since Rachel." In May, 1862, Mr. 

 Clarke went to England and made an engagement 

 with Dion Boucicault to play Mr. Toodles, one of 

 his most popular characters, in London, but for 

 business reasons the arrangement was not car- 

 ried out, and Mr. Clarke returned to the United 

 States in time to resume his starring engage- 

 ments in the autumn. The name of the Metro- 

 politan Theater in New York was changed 



