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CLEMENT. CLEMENT. I29 John Russell Young, then managing editor, and soon after became exchange editor and assistant, subsequently telegraph editor, night editor and city editor. Afterwards he was for a short time managing editor of the "Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser," and in 1S71 became one of the editors and pro- prietors of the " Elizabeth (N. J.) Journal." Mr. Clement is now editor of the " Bos- ton Transcript," having been appointed assistant editor in 1875, an d chief editor in 1SS1. -He honorably follows a long line of able and influential editors, men who have given a character and literary flavor to the paper, which still holds its own as a favorite family guest. It is greatly to the credit of the present management that the " Transcript" maintains the high stand- ard of public spirit, good morals and lit- erary excellence outlined by such con- ductors as Epes Sargent, Daniel N. Has- kell, E. P. Whipple and Starr King, with William Durant especially contributing, as for half a century past, to its financial success. In 1869, in New York City, Mr. Clement was married to Gertrude, daughter of John and Jane (Lauder) Pound. Of this union were four children. He has been a member of the corpora- tion of Perkins Institution for the Blind, director in the Boston Memorial Associa- tion, Philharmonic Society, Home for Intemperate Women, and was one of the founders and the namer of the St. Botolph Club. The Clement family came from Coven- try, England, in 1643, and settled Haver- hill, after a brief stay at Salisbury, at the mouth of the Merrimack River. Robert Clement, the head of the family, was a man of education and leadership, and was chosen to buy and survey the territory of Haverhill, obtaining a title from the In- dians, afterwards representing the town in the General Court. His mill was the first in the town, and the marriage of his son with an Osgood was the first marriage in Haverhill. Many of his lineal descend- ants are spread through New Hampshire and Vermont. CLEMENT, George Colburn, son of James H. and Clara (Erskine) Clement, was born in Milford, Worcester county, August 15, 1855. He was educated at home until 1S67, then for two years in the family of Mrs. James Means of Andover, and subsequently was fitted for Dartmouth College in the boarding school of Dr. Lloyd W. Hixon, Lowell. He entered Dartmouth in 1871 and remained one year, then went to Bellevue Hospital medical college, New York City, for one year. In 1876 he entered the Harvard medical school and completed his course, graduating in the class of 1878, but as he accepted an appointment in Boston City Hospital, he did not receive his diploma until 1880. Before he began his professional studies he made a voyage to the Mediterranean as cabin-boy. This was during the Franco-Prussian war. While a pupil of the late A. B. Crosby, M. D., professor of anatomy at Bellevue, N. Y., he had an attack of serious lung trouble, and the interim from the fall of 1873 until he resumed his studies, he passed by travel- ing in Chili, Peru, California and the West. Within twelve months he rounded Cape Horn three times. Since 1880 Dr. Clement has been in active practice in Haverhill, devoting himself especially to surgery. At present he is serving his second term of three years each as city physician of Haverhill, having been appointed in 1886. He is one of the visiting surgeons to the Haverhill City Hospital; medical examiner G. COLBURN CLEMENT. for the New York Life Insurance Company, Penn Mutual, Equitable Life and several other insurance companies. He is a mem-