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to the army post in that city from St. Louis 

 under a contract with the Government. He also 

 was an Indian agent for several years. He laid 

 out the present town of Billings, Mont., and also 

 formed a mining company and built extensive 

 works there. He removed to California, where 

 he was associated in business with men who 

 afterward became very wealthy through mining 

 enterprises. As a contractor Mr. Clark did con- 

 siderable railroad building in Alabama and Nova 

 Scotia, and then completed his greatest railroad 

 work, the Northern Pacific. After finishing this 

 railroad, he removed to New York city, where 

 he formed the firm of O'Brien & Clark, which ob- 

 tained the contract for building the New Croton 

 Aqueduct. Mr. Clark's last engineering work 

 was the construction of the Harlem River draw- 

 bridge for the New York Central Railroad. 



Clark, William, manufacturer, born in Pais- 

 ley, Scotland, in 1841; died in Portland, Eng- 

 land, July 7, 1902. He entered the thread-mills 

 in Scotland founded by his ancestors, and mas- 

 tered the details of every department of the busi- 

 ness. In 1860 he joined his brother, George A. 

 Clark, who came to the United States in 1856, 

 and established a branch of the Paisley establish- 

 ment on a small scale, from which grew the great 

 works in Newark, N. J. George A. Clark died 

 in 1873, and William Clark became sole manager 

 of the business. (See GIFTS AND. BEQUESTS.) 



Clarke, Annie, actress, born in Boston in 1845 ; 

 died in Chicago May 22, 1902. She made her first 

 appearance at the Boston Museum, in 1853, as 

 the Duke of York in Richard III. Early in her 

 experience with this company she appeared as 

 Polly in Uncle Tom's Cabin when the play was 

 first performed in Boston, and she played a 

 juvenile rOle in The Silver Spoon. In 1856 she 

 was one of the fairies in a spectacular production 

 of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She then joined 

 the Boston Howard Athenaeum for a season, play- 

 ing child's parts, after which she traveled in the 

 New England States with various organizations. 

 In 1861 she returned to the Boston Museum, oc- 

 cupying a secondary place for a few seasons, aft- 

 erward becoming the leading actress and appear- 

 ing for many years in the principal roles of all 

 the plays produced at that theater. It was a 

 famous company that she acted with, including 

 such players as William Warren, Charles Barron, 

 and Mrs. Vincent, and Miss Clarke was their 

 worthy associate, as she developed into a brilliant 

 and versatile actress, in classical plays as well 

 as x in the modern drama. She became famous 

 throughout the country, but seldom acted else- 

 where than in Boston. The Museum was one 

 of the last of the old theaters to keep its com- 

 pany together, but in 1892 its doors as a stock 

 theater were closed, the plays on that occasion 

 being A Scrap of Paper and Masks and Faces, 

 in each of which Miss Clarke played the leading 

 character. After this she played in several dif- 

 ferent companies, appearing with Richard Mans- 

 field, Olga Nethersole, and Julia Marlowe. Her 

 last appearance was in Chicago, where she was 

 acting in Miss Marlowe's production of When 

 Knighthood was in Flower at the time of her 

 death. Miss Clarke was a highly accomplished 

 woman, a great favorite professionally and so- 

 cially, and one of the best-known stock actresses 

 of her time! 



Collis, Charles H. T., military officer; born 

 in Cork, Ireland, Feb. 4, 1838; died in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., March 11, 1902. He came to the United 

 States in 1853, and was admitted to the bar in 

 Philadelphia in 1859. His first military service 

 was as sergeant-major in the 18th Pennsylvania 



Volunteers in April, 1861. After serving three 

 months with his regiment in Baltimore, he raised 

 a company of infantry, with which hfe took part 

 in operations in the Shenandoah valley. His first 

 commission was as captain, and he was soon 

 made colonel of the 114th Pennsylvania Volun- 

 teers. For bravery at Fredericksburg he received 

 a Congress medal. At Chancellorsville the regi- 

 ment took and held for some time the breast- 

 works defended by Trimble's division of the 

 enemy. Col. Collis was recommended as a bri- 

 gade commander, but he was attacked with 

 typhoid fever, and was sent to his home. Late 

 in the same year, in the Mine Run campaign, 

 a horse was shot under him. At Spottsylvania, 

 in May, 1864, he performed a service that won 

 the praise of Gen. Grant and gained for him the 

 rank of brigadier-general. Before Petersburg, 

 April 2, 1865, a portion of the 9th Corps having 

 been driven back from the works they had 

 stormed and captured, Gen. Collis, who had been 

 ordered to the spot by Gen. Grant to assist Gen. 

 Parke, rushed to their relief, leading the 114th 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers and 61st Massachusetts 

 in person, retaking all the lost ground and ad- 

 vancing to an inner line of works. This was not 

 accomplished without serious loss of life. Three 

 officers of his own regiment were killed in the 

 assault. For his conduct on this occasion he 

 was bre vetted major-general at the request of 

 Gen. Grant. In June, 1865, he was mustered out, 

 and at once resumed the practise of law in Phila- 

 delphia. He was elected city solicitor in 1871 

 and 1874, and was for many years a member of 

 the Board of Directors of Public Trusts of Phila- 

 delphia. In 1882 he removed to New York city, 

 where he connected himself with the anti-Platt 

 branch of the Republican party. He became a 

 member of the Republican County Committee 

 and the Committee of Thirty, which undertook 

 the reorganization of the Republican party in 

 1894. In the following year he was appointed 

 deputy commissioner of public works in the 

 Strong administration, and later in the same year 

 he became commissioner. He served in this office 

 till the expiration of Mayor Strong's administra- 

 tion, Jan. 1, 1898. On the advent of the adminis- 

 tration of Mayor Van Wyck, charges were laid 

 against Gen. Collis of carelessness, incompetency, 

 and favoritism as commissioner, but the grand 

 jury promptly dismissed them. 



Cooke, Lorrin Alanson, manufacturer, born 

 in New Marlboro, Mass., April 6, 1831; died in 

 Winsted, Conn., Aug. 12, 1902. He was educated 

 at Norfolk Academy, taught school a few years, 

 and then settled on a farm. In 1856 he was elect- 

 ed to the Connecticut Legislature; served four 

 years in the State Senate; was elected Lieut en- 

 ant-Governor in 1884 and 1894, and Governor in 

 1896. He was a director of the State Industrial 

 School for Girls and the State Humane Socii-ty. 

 and was a trustee of Hartford Theological Semi- 

 nary. 



Corrigan, Michael Augustine, third Roman 

 Catholic archbishop of the diocese of New York, 

 born in Newark, N. J., Aug. 13, 1839; died in 

 New York city, May 5, 1902. His parents emi- 

 grated from the province of Leinster. livland, 

 to America early in the last century and settled 

 in Newark. They gave their son a good educa- 

 tion, first at St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del., 

 and then at Mount *St. Mary's College, Emmets- 

 burg, Md., where he took the lead in his classes. 

 In his junior year he made a tour of Europe 

 with his sister, and returned to complete his 

 course in 1859. By this time he had made up 

 his mind to enter the priesthood. He was one 



