Northwest Territory would have been handed over to England or Spain in the treaty of 1783. The legislature of Virginia created Clark a brigadier-general, and gave him 8,049 acres of land in what is now the state of Indiana, not far from Louisville. Twice he was presented with a sword. But after the war his energy led him astray. He led an unsuccessful campaign against the Wabash Indians, and tried to organize an expedition to open the Mississippi River to navigation against the authority of the Spanish, with whom we were at peace. He spent the last years of his life in poverty on the land that Virginia had granted him. He died in 1818. Clark Street, Chicago, is named in his honor.
SIR MORTIMER CLARKClark, Sir William
Mortimer, was born
and educated in
Aberdeen, Scotland, and
studied law at
Edinburgh University,
becoming a writer to
the Signet. He
removed to Canada at
the age of 23.
Appointed lieutenant-governor
of the province
of Ontario, he
now holds this
position.
Clark, William Robinson, M.A., D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., of Canada, has been professor of philosophy in Trinity College, Toronto, since 1882. He was born in Inverurie, Scotland, March 26, 1829, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and Hertford College, Oxford, and was admitted to the priesthood of the church of England in 1858, becoming prebendary of Wells in 1870. He was Baldwin lecturer in the University of Michigan in 1887 and Slocum lecturer in 1899. In addition to several important works of a religious nature, including the lectures mentioned, he has edited and translated Hagenbach's History of Christian Doctrine and Haefele's History of the Councils.
Clark University was founded by Jonas C. Clark in 1887, in the city of Worcester, Mass., for the purpose of promoting research by post-graduate students in scientific rather than in philosophical or literary subjects. An undergraduate department, was added (1902), of which the late Carroll D. Wright, the well-known statistician, was made president. In the university proper, courses are now offered in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, psychology, education, economics and sociology, history and modern languages. The president is G. Stanley Hall, the psychologist, father of child-study in America, and it is in the department of psychology and education that the university has secured the most notable results. The university is unique in offering a “degree of docent,” certifying to fitness, both in scholarship and teaching ability, for an academic chair or college professorship. There are 31 fellowships, worth from $200 to $600 a year. There are exceptional facilities to get in touch with the latest literature upon the subjects above mentioned. The library contains about 40,000 volumes, and receives over 200 journals, mostly technical in character.
Clarke, James Freeman, an American clergyman, was born at Hanover, N. H., April 4, 1810. He graduated at Harvard College and Cambridge Divinity School, becoming pastor of a Unitarian church at Louisville, Ky., and afterward of the Church of the Disciples in Boston. Dr. Clarke became widely known as a religious writer. His best known books are Ten Great Religions and Orthodoxy, Its Truths and Errors. He died June 8, 1888.
Clark, Capt. Wm. See Lewis and Clark Exploration.
Clarks′ville, Tenn., a city and county-seat of Montgomery County, located on the Cumberland River, about 40 miles from Nashville. The surrounding country is a tobacco-growing region, and the city has tobacco and snuff-factories and lumber and flour-mills. A Methodist school for girls and the Southwestern Presbyterian University are located here, and the city is served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Population, 8,548.
Claude Lorrain (klõd-lŏr-rān′) (real name Claude Gelée), landscape painter, was born at Champagne in 1600. When a boy, he was carried to Rome by a relative who deserted him. But he soon obtained a place as servant to a painter, learning to paint as he ground his master's colors. After wandering about Europe, he painted for ten years at Rome before his pictures were sought after; but four landscapes painted by him for the pope gave him the fame he had been working for. He painted about 400 landscapes. Among the best are the series, Morning, Noon, Evening and Twilight. Claude himself liked best his Villa Madama, keeping it in his study and refusing to sell it, even when the pope offered for it as much gold as would cover the canvas. He also produced etchings, of which Le Bouvier is the finest. Claude's pictures brought such high prices, even during his lifetime, that many copies and imitations have been sold as his. He died at Rome in November, 1682.
Claudius, Roman emperor, a nephew of Emperor Tiberius, was born at Lyons, in Gaul, in the year 10 B. C. A sickly boy, he was neglected and left pretty much to himself, growing up a timid student. When Caligula was murdered, he hid himself in a corner of the palace, fearing that he
