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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CARLTON CLARK.) 



Bible by Itself. Two years later he published a 

 biographical sketch of Martin Van Buren, and 

 in 1871 Lawyer and Client, first delivered as a 

 lecture before the Law School of the University 

 of the City of New York. His collected poems 

 were published in one volume in Boston in 1871. 

 In prose he published, anonymously, Mrs. Lim- 

 ber's Raffle (187(5) and Domesticus, a story rela- 

 ting to the labor question (1880). He also deliv- 

 ered or published numerous other addresses and 

 sketches. For portrait, see frontispiece. 



Carlton, Charles, educator, born in Eythorne, 

 Kent, England, Aug. 21, 1821; died in Bonham, 

 Texas, Feb. 13, 1902. He went to Toronto, Can- 

 ada, with his parents in 1854; was a seaman 

 several years; and later worked on a farm in 

 Fredonia, N. Y. While farming he studied for 

 the ministry, and was graduated at Bethany 

 College, West Virginia, in 1849. He held pas- 

 torates in a Baptist church in Georgetown, Ky., 

 in 1849-'50; in Lexington, Mo., and Little Rock, 

 and Van Buren, Ark., where he also engaged in 

 teaching, extending his labors from Fort Smith 

 and Fayetteville to Waldron. When the civil 

 war broke out he removed to Texas, and settled 

 on a farm in Collins County, where he remained 

 a year, when he removed to Dallas and resumed 

 his work as teacher and preacher. In 1867 he 

 removed to Bonham, where he resided till his 

 death. Here he established the coeducational 

 school known as Bonham Seminary, which in 

 1882 became an institution exclusively for wom- 

 en, the name being changed to Carlton College. 

 He was active in the organization of the Amer- 

 ican Christian Missionary Society in 1849, and 

 was also one of the leaders in the Christian de- 

 nomination in Texas. 



Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, author, born 

 in Luray, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1847; died in Chicago, 

 111., Dec. 26, 1902. She was graduated at the 

 Female College in Granville, Ohio, in 1868; and 

 married John Steele Catherwood in 1887. She 

 began her literary career as contributor to a 

 juvenile magazine, and later she was on the edi- 

 torial staff of the Chicago Graphic. She was the 

 author of Craque-o'-Doom ; Old Caravan Days; 

 The Secret of Roseladies; The Romance of Dol- 

 lard; The Belle of Ste. Anne; The Story of 

 Tonty ; The Lady of Fort St. John ; Old Kaskas- 

 kia; The White Islander; The Chase of St. Castin 

 and Other Tales; The Spirit of an Illinois Town 

 and the Little Renault; The Days of Jeanne 

 d'Arc; Bony and Ban; Mackinac and Lake Sto- 

 ries; Spanish Paggy; and Lazarre. 



Charming, Blanche Mary, author, born in 

 Liverpool, England, about 1863; died in Brook- 

 line, Mass., Aug. 9, 1902. She was the daughter 

 of the Rev. William Henry Channing, for many 

 years a Unitarian minister in Liverpool, and a 

 grand-niece of Dr. William Ellery Channing. 

 Her earlier years were spent in England, but in 

 1890 she came to the United States and made 

 her home in Brookline, where she engaged in 

 literary work and the designing of posters and 

 book-covers. Her published books include 

 Zodiac Stories (1899); Winifred West (1901); 

 and The Balaster Boys (1902). 



Charles, Brother (name in religion), educator, 

 born in Paterson, N. J., in 1855; died in New 

 York city, March 11, 1902. He was graduated 

 with high honors in 1874 at Manhattan College, 

 of which he later became president, holding the 

 office till his death. In adopting the career of 

 teacher he interested himself especially in Latin 

 literature, and for many years was widely known 

 in the educational work of the Roman 'Catholic 

 Church in the United States. 



Chase, Jefferson, inventor, born in Concord, 

 Vt., July 24, 1831; died in Portland, Me., May 

 20, 1902. He was a son of John Denison Chase, 

 the inventor of the first all-iron-and-steel circular- 

 saw mill made in New England. At an early 

 age Jefferson showed a tendency to follow in 

 his father's footsteps. He became associated with 

 his father and brother under the firm name of 

 the Chase Turbine Manufacturing Company, 

 which in 1855 introduced the Chase water-wheel, 

 a device that rapidly grew in favor. Mr. Chase 

 had taken out 34 patents since his twenty-fifth 

 birthday. These include the automatic shingle 

 and heading machine, the lever set circular-saw 

 mill, the traveling-bed planer, the automatic 

 grooving machine, the self-shipping power-feed 

 saw machine, and the lath machine and bolter. 

 At the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 

 1876, while Mr. Chase was exhibiting some of his 

 inventions, he became interested in some paper 

 pails that were exhibited. These were made with 

 sheets of paper wound round a block. He at 

 once began experimenting, substituting wood-pulp 

 for paper, and in 1883 made the first wood-pulp 

 pails, tubs, etc. His son, the late William I. 

 Chase, then invented machines for making these 

 articles. 



Cist, Henry Martyn, military officer, born in 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1839; died in Rome, 

 Italy, Dec. 17, 1902. He was graduated at Farm- 

 er's (now Belmont) College in 1858, and studied 

 law. When the civil war broke out he enlisted 

 as a private in the 6th Ohio Infantry; was pro- 

 moted to 2d lieutenant, then adjutant, and later 

 major; and resigned from the army Jan. 4, 1866, 

 with the rank of brevet brigadier-general. He 

 was post adjutant of Camp Chase during the con- 

 finement of the Confederate prisoners captured at 

 Fort Donelson, and served in Middle Tennessee 

 and in the Chickamauga and Eastport cam- 

 paigns. After the war he practised law in Cincin- 

 nati; was mayor of College Hill, Ohio, two terms; 

 corresponding secretary of the Society of the 

 Cumberland in 1869-'92; contributor to period- 

 icals on civil-war subjects; and author of The 

 Army of the Cumberland (1882); Life of Major- 

 Gen. George H. Thomas, etc. He was president 

 of the Ohio Chapter of the Sons of the American 

 Revolution, and originator of the movement that 

 resulted in the conversion of the Chickamauga 

 battle-field into a national park. 



Clark, Edward, architect, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1822; died in Washington, D. C., 

 Jan. 6, 1902. He received an academic education: 

 studied architecture with Thomas U. Walter, and 

 when the latter became architect of the Uniicd 

 States Capitol Extension was appointed his as- 

 sistant. In 1865 Mr. Walter resigned, and Mr. 

 Clark was appointed his successor, and in that 

 office he served continuously until his death. He 

 was a member of the commissions on the com- 

 pletion of the Washington Monument and the 

 construction of the Library of Congress, and 

 served on various other commissions for special 

 Government work. In addition to his duties as 

 architect of the Capitol, Mr. Clark had charge of 

 improving the Smithsonian Institution, repairing 

 the local court-house, and drawing plans for 

 schoolhouses in Alaska. He was a trustee of 

 the Corcoran Art Gallery and a member of nu- 

 merous scientific societies. 



Clark, Heman, contractor, born in Ohio about 

 1839; died in New York city, Sept. 7, 1902. He 

 was educated at Hiram College, taught school 

 for a short time, and then went to Pike's Peak, 

 where he worked in the gold-mines. Later he re- 

 moved to Salt Lake City and conveyed supplies 



