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to that of Winter Garden, and in August, 18G4, 

 Mr. Clarke, in partnership with Edwin Booth 

 and William Stuart, assumed the management. 

 Mr. Clarke played his repertory of comedy there 

 from Aug. 18 to Christmas, and Mr. Booth fol- 

 lowed him. At this time his popular characters 

 were : Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of 

 Errors, Smashington in Somebody's Coat, Paul 

 Patent in Love and Livery, Paul Pry in the com- 

 edy of the same name, Bob Tyke in The School 

 for Reform, Jeremiah Beetle in The Babes in the 

 Wood, Bob Brierly in The Ticket-of-leave Man, 

 Waddilove in To Parents and Guardians, Peter 

 Plumley in Single Life, Mr. Dove in Married Life, 

 Major Wellington de Boots in Everybody's Friend, 

 Lord Sparkle in A Roland for an Oliver, Jack 

 Shepherd, Toby Twinkle, Simon Parefoy, and 

 Timothy Brown. In 1863 Mr. Clarke and Edwin 

 Booth bought the Walnut Street Theater, Phila- 

 delphia, which they managed several years, and 

 in 1866 they took the lease of the Boston Thea- 

 ter. In both of these they maintained the usual 

 stock company, as well as that of the Winter 

 Garden, New York, playing starring engagements 

 in the three cities successively. In the autumn 

 of 1867 Mr. Clarke visited England on a pleasure 

 trip with his wife and family. While in London 

 he found the opportunity to play Major De 

 Boots, and made his appearance before a London 

 audience, changing the name of the play to The 

 Widow Hunt, at the St. James's Theater, in Octo- 

 ber. His success was instantaneous and perma- 

 nent, and, acting partly on the advice of Charles 

 Dickens, who became his enthusiastic friend, he 

 settled in the English metropolis. In February, 

 1868, he played Salem Scudder in The Octoroon 

 at the Princess, and he made thereafter a very 

 prosperous tour to Liverpool, Birmingham, Dub- 

 lin, Belfast, and Edinburgh. On returning to 

 London he took an engagement at the Strand 

 Theater, with which house he was identified many 

 years. July 26, 1869, he began there with a sig- 

 nal triumph as Babington Jones in John Brough- 

 am's comedy Among the Breakers, and achieved 

 great success as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law 

 and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman. His 

 performance of Mr. Toodles ran two hundred 

 nights during this season. On his return to the 

 United States he met with a series of ovations, 

 opening, April 17, 1870, in New York, where he 

 played forty-two nights, then visiting Chicago, St. 

 Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Balti- 

 more, and Philadelphia. In the last named he 

 played fifty nights. July 29, 1871, began a run of 

 Dr. Pangloss at the Strand in London, one hun- 

 dred and fifty nights. In December he was in 

 Philadelphia again, playing alternately with Ed- 

 ward Sothern in two houses. Clarke began with 

 Dr. Pangloss at the Arch, while Sothern played 

 Dundreary at the Walnut. Then Clarke went to 

 the Walnut and finished the performance with 

 Mr. Toodles, and Sothern went to the Arch, where 

 he gave Dundreary Married and Settled. Though 

 prices were doubled in both houses, they were 

 filled every night. March 9, 1872, Mr. Clarke 

 was at the Strand again, and played Dr. Olla- 

 pod sixty nights, followed by Paul Pry for the 

 summer weeks. In November, 1872, he assumed 

 the management of the Charing Cross Theater, 

 London, where he opened with a charming per- 

 formance of Bob Acres in The Rivals. This ran 

 one hundred and twenty-seven nights, and a 

 long time in the provinces. April 4, 1874, he 

 made another London success as Phineas Pet- 

 tiphogge in Henry J. Byron's Thumbscrew at 

 the Holborn Theater. In 1878 Mr. Clarke be- 

 came lessee of the Haymarket Theater, London, 



but he did not play there till April, 1879, when 

 he played for a short time Bob Acres, Too- 

 dles, and Dr. Pangloss. Sept. 20, 1880, he began 

 another short engagement at the Haymarket, and 

 in the beginning of 1887 went again to the United 

 States. When he returned to London it was to 

 play at the Strand, beginning Nov. 18, 1882. On 

 Jan. 18, 1883, a revival of The Comedy of Errors 

 was given for a run of considerable length. 

 Thereafter his work was mostly in the provinces. 

 His last appearance in America was in 1879, and 

 in later years he lived in leisure near London. 



Clarke, Joseph Morison, clergyman, born in 

 Bethany, Conn., Oct. 6, 1827; died in Syracuse, 

 N. Y., Nov. 30, 1899. He was graduated at Ho- 

 bart College in 1847, and, deciding to enter the 

 Episcopal ministry, was ordained deacon in 1852 

 and priest in 1853. From 1852 to 1858 he was 

 rector of St. Peter's Church, Niagara Falls, N. Y., 

 and from 1858 until his death rector of St. James's 

 Church at Syracuse. From J886 to 1891 he was 

 Professor of Exegesis at Nashotah Seminary, Wis- 

 consin. He published Was John Wesley a Meth- 

 odist? and Christian Union and the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church (New York, 1886). 



Clarke, Robert, publisher, born in Annan, 

 Scotland, in 1829; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 

 26, 1899. When eleven years old he went with 

 his family to Cincinnati. He was educated at 

 Woodward College, and began his business life 

 as clerk in a second-hand bookstore. In 1858, 

 on the retirement of the publishing firm of H. 

 W. Derby & Co., Mr. Clarke organized the firm 

 of Robert Clarke & Co., which in 1894 became 

 the Robert Clarke Company. Early in his career 

 Mr. Clarke took a special interest in historical 

 works, and he also began a systematic collecting, 

 particularly of Americana, for his private libra- 

 ry. This collection had reached nearly 7,000 vol- 

 umes a few years ago, when William A. Proctor 

 purchased it. In 1898 the purchaser presented it 

 to Cincinnati University. Among the notable 

 historical works that the firm published are Col. 

 George Rogers Clarke's Campaign in the Illinois, 

 1778-79, James McBride's Pioneer Biographies, 

 and Capt. James Smith's Captivity with the In- 

 dians. Mr. Clarke was the author of The Pre- 

 historic Remains which were Found on the Site 

 of the City of Cincinnati, with a Vindication of 

 the Cincinnati Tablet, which he printed in 1876. 



Clement, Nathaniel H., jurist, born in Tilton, 

 N. H., March 23, 1844; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 March 3, 1899. He was graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1863, and was a member of the Dart- 

 mouth cavalry company that formed a part of 

 the command under Col. Davis that escaped from 

 Harper's Ferry through the enemy's line during 

 the night preceding the surrender of that post 

 to the Confederates in September, 1862. After 

 leaving college he spent three years as a clerk 

 in the War Department, and then, removing to 

 Brooklyn, became a law student in the office of 

 Crooke, Bergen & Pratt. When Mr. Pratt was 

 elected a justice of the Supreme Court Mr. Clem- 

 ent succeeded him as junior member of the firm, 

 and held that place till the dissolution of the 

 firm in 1873. In 1882 he was elected judge of 

 the old city court, and in 1887 became chief 

 judge. When the new constitution consolidated 

 the city court and the Supreme Court Judge 

 Clement became a justice of the Supreme Court 

 for the 2d District for the term expiring Dec. 31, 

 1896. In the autumn of that year both Judge 

 Clement and Judge Charles M. Brown were re- 

 nominated for a term of fourteen years .each. 

 Both candidates, however, refused the nomina- 

 tion because they could not subscribe to the Chi- 



