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CLAPP, JAMES WILKINSON, M.D., son of Otis Clapp, the founder of the house of Otis Clapp & Son, was born in Boston Sept. 22, 1847. He was educated in the Boston public schools, Chauncy Hall School, and the Boston University School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1877. He has been lecturer on pharmacy in the Boston University Medical School for eight years, and still holds that position ; one of the trustees and also treasurer of the Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary since Jan. 1, 1881 ; and is asso- ciate editor of the " Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia," now being issued by the American Institute of Home- opathy. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homce- opathic Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He has contributed to medical journals papers pertaining to pharmacy. Dr. Clapp was married Oct. 20, 1868, to Eliza T., daughter of the late John Tuckerman, of Boston.
CLARK, AUGUSTUS N., son of Ninian and Sally (Warner) Clark, was born in Hancock, N.H., March 23, 1811. He was educated in the district school of his native town, and at seventeen was at work in the dry-goods and apothecary store of William Endicott, jr., in Beverly. In that town he has ever since lived. He remained in Mr. Endi- cott's store until he became of age, and then he branched out for himself in the same business. In 1858 he became interested in the manufacture of machine leather-belting in Boston, and subsequently in other enterprises ; and after a prosperous career of twenty-five years he practically retired from busi- ness life. He is still, however, a trustee of the Beverly Savings Bank and a director in several corporations. He represented his town in the lower house of the Legislature in 1861, and in 1880 was a presidential elector. In politics originally a Whig, he became a Republican upon the organization of that party, and he has been ever since an active member of it. Mr. Clark was married in Beverly Aug. 23, 1838, to Miss Hitty Smith. She died in May, 1888, and of their four children only one is now living - Sarah Warner Clark.
CLARK, CHARLES E., was born at Auburn, Me., July 8, 1850. He received his early education in the Lewiston Falls Academy, and afterward removed to Portland, where he attended the high school, graduating in 1867. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1871, and the same year entered the Harvard Medical School, taking his degree of M.D. in 1877. He then practised his profession until 1883. In 1885 and 1886 served as ferry com-
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missioner of Boston. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart a registrar of voters for a term of three is unmarried. years.
CLARK, C. EVERETT, was born in Townsend, Mass. He has been a building contractor for over twenty- one years, beginning business in Athol in 1870. In 1872 he removed to Worcester, where he remained for one year, coming to Boston in 1873. His work, however, is not confined to Boston, but extends all over the country. He built the Newport houses of William K. and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, Mr. Ogden Goelet, and the Lorillards ; of Charles Lanier at Lenox ; the residence of F. F. Thompson at Canandaigua, N.Y. ; the Opera House and the Union Club House, Chicago ; large office- buildings and residences in Kansas City ; the Cupples large warehouses and Church of the Messiah in St. Louis ; and many elegant houses in the Boston Back Bay district. In 1891 he built the Security Building, an $800,000 office-building, and two additional ware- houses for the Cupples Real Estate Company in St. Louis ; a large building for the Michigan Trust Co. in Grand Rapids, Mich .; the largest private resi- dence in the Northwest for Mr. J. J. Hill at St. Paul, Minn. ; and a large stone seaside-mansion at New- port, R.I., for Joseph R. Busk, of New York. He is one of the trustees of the Master Builders' Associa- tion, and a director in the Smith-Carleton Iron Com- pany. He has several superintendents who have been in his employ for nearly twenty years, and who personally superintend his buildings. His office is in the Master Builders' Association Building, No. 166 Devonshire street, and he controls his vast busi- ness by correspondence with his superintendents and by making regular trips West once a month.
CLARK, CHESTER WARD, son of Amasa Ford and Belinda (Ward) Clark, was born in Glover, Vt., Aug. 9, 1851. He was educated in the academy of his native town, and at Phillips (Exeter) Acad- einy. In 1874 he began the study of law in Boston, in the office of B. C. Moulton, and was admitted to the bar March 12, 1878. He immediately began practice, opening an office on Court street, from which he removed in 1882 to the Equitable Building. He has established a lucrative practice, principally in commercial and probate law. His residence is at Wilmington, where he is prominent in local affairs, and active in' originating and promoting public im- provements. To his efforts are largely due the greatly improved school facilities there. He has served as chairman of several local organizations. He is a member of the Congregational Club of in 1876 ..
Boston, and clerk of the local church. Mr. Clark
CLARK, EDWARD W., was born in Augusta, Me., Aug. 16, 1850. He was for some years foreman for his father, William M. Clark, for a long period a heavy builder of Boston. Afterwards he became foreman for Otis Wentworth, which position he occupied until 1875, when, in partnership with Capt. Walter S. Sampson, the present building-firm of Sampson, Clark, & Co. was established. They have
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taken and successfully completed some of the heaviest contracts known, contracting for every branch of the work of construction and finishing. The new Court House is their latest large success ; but others of their buildings, among them the State Building at Rutland, \'t., the County Building in Keene, N.H., the O'Brien Grammar School and Hyde High School in the Rox- bury district, the Continental Sugar Refinery, the People's Church, the largest and finest horse-railroad stables in the country, at South Boston, the Plymouth Woollen Mills, and many blocks of stores in Boston, are notable. The private residences, particularly large and substantial mansions in the Back Bay dis- trict, which they have constructed, can be counted by the hundred. Mr. Clark is a member of the Master Builders' Association and of the Mechanics' Exchange of Boston. He was married in Boston
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CLARKE, AUGUSTUS P., M.D., son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke, was born in Pawtucket, R.I., Sept. 24, 1833. He was fitted for college in
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the University Grammar School of Providence, R.J., and entering Brown graduated in the class of 1860. Then he studied in the Harvard Medical School and received the degree of M.D. On the first day of August, 1861, he entered the United States service as assistant surgeon of the Sixth Regiment New York Cavalry, and was on duty in this capacity with the Army of the Potomac until May, 1863, when he was promoted to the rank of surgeon of that regiment. In November following he was assigned to duty as surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brig- ade, First Division of Sheridan's Cavalry, and in February, 1865, was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the First Cavalry Division, Sheridan's Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, which position he held until the close of the war. Mustered out October, 1865, he was appointed " brevet lieutenant-colonel, New York State Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious conduct during his term of service." He was present and on duty in eighty two battles and en- gagements. During the seven days' battle of the Peninsular Campaign in 1862 he was taken prisoner, -- at the battle of Savage Station, June 29, -- and after- wards sent to Richmond, was held there until August 1, when he was exchanged. Immediately after his miltary service Dr. Clarke established himself in
Cambridge, where he has since practised his pro- fession. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and has been one of its councillors ; is vice-president of the Boston Gynecological Society ; member of the American Academy of Medicine ; of the American Association of Obstetri- cians and Gynæcologists ; the American Medical Association ; the Cambridge Medical Society, of which he was one of the originators, and for several years its secretary ; and the Public Health Associa- tion. He is also a member of the Cambridge Club and Art Circle, the Boston Baptist Social Union, and one of the standing committee of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge. He belongs to a number of charitable and fraternal societies, and is a prominent member of the G.A.R. and the Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. After two terms in the Cambridge common council (1872 and 1873) and one in the board of alder- men (1874), he declined, further to serve in public positions. Dr. Clarke was married in Bristol, R.I., Oct. 23, 1861, to Miss Mary H., daughter of Gideon Gray ; they have two daughters: Inez Louise and Genevieve Clarke.
CLARKE, THOMAS W., son of Calvin W. and Ann K. (Townsend) Clarke, was born in Boston Dec. 1, 1834. His father was a native of Roxbury, and a well-known merchant of this city ; he was a mem- ber of the common council a number of terms, an alderman one term, and was twice elected to the State Legislature on the Whig ticket ; he was treas- urer, of the American Unitarian Association a num- ber of years, and for a long period was a director of the Traders' Bank, the Manufacturers' Insurance Company, and the New England Glass Company ; he died in 1879, at the age of eighty-three. Mr. Clarke's mother was a native of Boston, and daugh- ter of the late Dr. David Townsend, who was a pupil of Dr. Warren, and one of the surgeons at Bunker Hill, General Gates' chief surgeon at Sara- toga, and director-general of hospitals during the Revolution, and surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital, inspector of pot and pearl ashes for the State of Massachusetts, and president of the Society of Cincinnati later. Thomas W. Clarke was educated in Chauncy Hall School and by private tutors, and graduated from Harvard in 1855. He studied law with H. M. & H. G. Parker, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1857, and conducted a general prac- tice until 1861. He was commissioner of insol- vency in 1859-60-61. In 1861 he went into the war as captain of the Wightman Rifles, which was
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first attached to the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and afterwards organized at Fort Mon- roe, with other three-years companies which had gone into service independently, into the Massachu- setts Battalion, which itself became, in December, 1861, the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts. He was mustered out in 1865 as captain, with Massachusetts appointment of colonel, to which the size of the regiment did not permit muster. He was quarter- master at Alexandria, Va., 1862-3 ; commissary in East Tennessee, January, 1864 ; judge-advocate in Alexandria, Va., 1863, and near Petersburg, Va., 1865 ; and adjutant-general in the Second and Third Brigades, First Division Ninth Army Corps, in 1864-5. He was at Big Bethel, June 10, 1861 ; in the Irish Brigade during the siege of Richmond, 1862 ; was in the Vicksburg and Jackson campaign in 1863 ; in East Tennessee, 1863-4 ; in the Wilderness and Peters- burg campaigns from the last of May, 1864, until after the fall of Petersburg ; and led the third line at the Crater, July 30, 1864, taking in the Two Hun- dred and Eighth Pennsylvania in the fight at Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865. After the war Mr. Clarke resumed his practice. He confined it almost entirely to patents, copyrights, and trade-marks. He is now associated with F. F. Raymond at No. 32 Pemberton square. He was counsel for the High- land Street Railroad from its organization until its consolidation with the Middlesex. He is a member of the Loyal Legion. In politics he is a Republi- can. Mr. Clarke married Miss Eliza A. Raymond, of Boston ; they have three children living : Lois W., Thomas W., and Grace T. Clarke.
CLEMENT, EDWARD HENRY, son of Cyrus and Re- becca Fiske (Shortridge) Clement, was born in Chelsea, Mass., April 19, 1843. He is a descend- ant of Robert Clement, who came from Coventry, Eng., in 1643, who was chosen to buy and survey the territory of Haverhill ; afterwards he represented the town in the General Court. His mill was the first in the town, and the marriage of his son was the first marriage in Haverhill. Edward H. was edu- cated in the Chelsea public schools and at Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1864, leading his class. Subsequently he received from Tufts the honorary degree of A.M. He began his profes- sional life as a reporter and assistant editor of. an army post newspaper, started with the deserted plant of the " Savannah News" by two correspond- ents of the " New York Herald " stationed at Hilton Head, S.C. In 1867 he returned to Boston, and for a month was chief proof-reader of the "Daily Advertiser." Then he resigned to accept a similar
position on the " New York Tribune." Instead of that, however, John Russell Young, then the man- aging editor of the " Tribune," gave him a place as reporter. Soon after he was promoted to the posi- tion of exchange editor, then advanced to the tele- graph editor's desk, and then to that of night editor. Subsequently he was for a short time managing edi- tor of the " Newark [N.J.] Daily Advertiser," and in 1871 he became one of the editors and proprie- tors of the " Elizabeth [N.J.] Journal." In 1875 he was called to Boston to take the position of assistant editor of the "Transcript," which at that time was under the editorship of William A. Hovey. Upon Mr. Hovey's retirement, in 1881, Mr. Clement was promoted to the position of chief, which he still holds. He has ably maintained the paper upon the lines laid down by the long line of eminent editors of this favorite Boston institution. He has been connected with a number of local organizations, among them the Boston Memorial Association and the Philharmonic Society ; and he was one of the founders of the St. Botolph Club, of which he is still a member. In 1869 Mr. Clement was married, in New York city, to Miss Gertrude Pound ; they have three children.
CLEMENTS, THOMAS W., was born in Weymouth, N.S., April 1, 1840. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the army and served three years in the Twelfth Maine Regiment ; a portion of the time as sergeant and the remainder as second lieutenant. He began the study of dentistry in 1864 in Port- land, Me., where he remained for some time, sub- sequently practising in Waldoborough and Ellsworth. Then he came to Boston and took the course of the Boston Dental College, from which he graduated in IS72. He first associated himself with Dr. D. S. Dickerman, of this city, and later removed to Brook- line, where he now enjoys an extensive practice. Dr. Clements is a prominent member of various societies. From 1873 to 1884 he was adjunct professor in the Boston Dental College, and he is now a member of the board of trustees of that institution.
CLIFFORD, HENRY M., was born in Lewiston, Me. After receiving his education in the grammar and high schools of his native city, he engaged for a time in different mercantile pursuits. Then he began the study of dentistry in the office of Dr. I. Goddard, Auburn, Me., but soon left him to enter the Harvard Dental School, where he graduated in the class of 1886. A year later he became demon- strator of operative dentistry in the same school,
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which position he still occupies. Dr. Clifford is a first to introduce the German system, which provides member of the Harvard Dental Alumni, the Har- vard Odontological Society, the Massachusetts Den- tal Society, and the American Academy of Dental
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Science. He has contributed interesting papers to a number of dental journals, and has several times read essays on professional topics before the socie- ties of which he is a member.
CLOUGH, GEORGE A., architect, son of Asa Clough, of Bluehill, Me., a man of reputation in that com- munity as a ship-builder, having built eighty-three ships during his lifetime, was born in Bluehill, May 27, 1843. He was educated in the Bluehill Acad- emy, and when still a youth worked under his father four years as a draughtsman in the ship-yard, draw- ing the sweeps upon the floor, and forming the moulds for the ship timber. He began the study of architecture with George Snell, of the firm of Snell & Gregerson, in Boston, in March, 1863, and re- mained with him until 1869, when he went into business for himself. In December, 1875, he entered the city's employ as city architect, the first to hold that office. Mr. Clough organized the department, and during his régime, which covered a period of nine years, many notable public buildings were erected by the city from his plans. Prominent among these is the English High and Latin School building on Montgomery street, in which structure he was the
for constructing the building around open courts, thus affording ample light and ventilation to all parts of it; the Prince School, on the German system for smaller school-buildings, completed in . 1881 ; the Pumping-station, the Westborough Insane Hospital, and the Suffolk County Court House. Mr. Clough's skill is especially manifested in his con- struction of school buildings, of which, since 1875, he has built twenty-five or more in Boston. He also de- signed the Marcella-street Home, the Lyman School for Boys, the Durfee Memorial Building at Fall River, one of the finest school-edifices in the world, the Bridge Academy at Dresden, Me., and similar buildings all over New England, as well as in Penn- sylvania and New York. Mr. Clough's plans for the new Suffolk County Court House were accepted after an extended competition among the architects of the county. The building, however, as erected is the re- sult of serious modification made by the commission, and to a considerable degree does not represent Mr. Clough's views expressed in the original design, or as to what the county needed. Mr. Clough was mar- ried in 1876, to Miss Amelia M. Hinckley, of Thet- ford, Vt. ; they have three children living : Charles Henry, Annie Louisa, and Pamelia Morrill Clough.
COBB, FREDERIC CODMAN, M.D., was born in Boston April 3, 1860. He was educated in the Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated with the degree of A.B., in 1884, and that of M.D. from the Medical School in 1887 ; then went abroad, spending two years in Heidelberg, Vienna, Dublin, and London. Returning to Boston in 1889, he be- gan the practice of his profession. He was ap- pointed assistant in diseases of the throat and nose at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and physician to the Boston Dispensary, and also assisted Dr. Hooper at the City Hospital in throat diseases. Dr. Cobb is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
CODMAN, CHARLES RUSSELL, eldest son of Charles Russell and Anne ( Macmaster) Codman, was born in Paris, France, on Oct. 28, 1829, while his parents were travelling abroad. The Codman family have been identified with Boston since 1640. His father was a well-known merchant, whose mother was Margaret, daughter of the Hon. James Russell, of Charlestown, and his grandfather, the Hon. John Codman, laid the foundation of the family fortune. His mother was of Scotch origin on her father's side, and on her mother's was of New York Dutch descent, from the Dey and Van
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politics and the advancement of the best interests of the country his powerful influence is uniformly given, and in this advocacy his clarion voice utters no un- certain sound.
Buskirk families. He was educated in the private schools of Boston under the late Henry R. Cleve- land, Edmund L. Cushing (afterward chief justice of New Hampshire), and the late Franklin Forbes. He was also for three years at school near Flushing, L.I., under the late Rev. William . A. Muhlenberg, CODMAN, JOHN THOMAS, son of John Codman. who descended from one of Boston's oldest families, was born in Boston Oct. 30, 1826. He is now one of the oldest-established dentists in the city. He was first associated with his uncle, the late Dr. Willard W. Codman, and afterwards with Dr. N. C. Keep, of this city. He graduated from Harvard in 1870, receiving the degree of D.M.D., and has been forty-five years in the practice of his pro- fession, nearly forty of which have been spent in Boston. He has filled all the prominent offices of the Massachusetts Dental Society, is a member of the New York Odontological Society, the New England Dental Society, the Connecticut Valley Society, and the Boston Society for Dental Im- provement ; and he has acceptably filled various offices in the American Academy of Dental a distinguished divine of the Protestant Episcopal church. In due time he entered Harvard College, and graduated in the class of 1849. He then studied law in the office of the late Charles G. Loring, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practised law for a short time, subsequently engag- ing in general business. He resided in Boston until 1855, and then moved to Barnstable. At Walton- on-Thames, England, on Feb. 28, 1856, Mr. Cod- man was married to Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of the late Russell Sturgis, of Boston, and afterwards of the firm of Baring Brothers & Co., of London. They have three sons and two daughters living : Russell Sturgis, Anne Macmaster, Susan Welles, John Sturgis, and Julian Codman. In 1861 and 1862 Mr. Codman was a member of the school committee of Boston. In 1864 and 1865 he repre- Science. Dr. Codman has been active also in sented a district of the city of Boston in the State society work ; has written many essays and read papers before the Massachusetts Dental Society, the American Academy, and other similar organiza- Senate ; for four years, from 1872 to 1875 inclusive, he was a member of the House of Representatives, serving each year on important committees, in the last two being chairman of the committee on the judiciary. He began life as a Whig. In 1856 he joined the Republican party, and was an active mem- ber of it until 1884, since which time he has acted with the Democrats. During the Civil War Mr. Codman served as colonel of the Forty-fifth Massa- chusetts Regiment, having previously been lieutenant and captain in the Boston Cadets. He has been president of the Boston Provident Association, suc- ceeding the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop ; president of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, and a trustee of the State Insane Asylum at Westborough. He was elected a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College in 1878, and again in 1884. He was president of the board in 1880 and 1881, and again from 1887 to 1890. He was Republican candidate for mayor of Boston in 1878. Mr. Cod- man has always been independent in political con- nections. He supported the Republican party in its early days, when resistance to the slave power seemed to him a duty. He gave the Democratic party an equally cordial and enthusiastic support when to his mind that party stood for just and liberal tariff-legislation. He has always been iden- JOHN T. CODMAN. tified with and heartily in favor of the cause of tions. He is a charter member of Boston Council, civil-service reform ; and, in fact, to all the great Royal Arcanum, and one of the founders of the moving reforms that tend to the purification of order of the Home Circle and of the United
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Fellowship, as well as the Boston Society for Dental public schools and Dartmouth College, graduating in Improvement. In his leisure hours he still uses his pen, and has some valuable unpublished manu- scripts in his possession. Dr. Codman was married Dec. 13, 1859, to Miss Kezzie H., daughter of Mort Clark, of Brewster, Mass.
COGGAN, MARCELLUS, son of Leonard and Betsey M. Coggan, was born in Bristol, Me., in 1847. He obtained his early education in the district school, and when yet a youth went to sea, engaging in the coasting trade between Maine and Southern ports, and the West Indies. Abandoning a seafaring life a few years later he went to Lincoln Academy, New Castle, Me., where he prepared for college. Entering Bow- doin in 1868, he made his way through by hard. work, teaching in schools and academies during the winter months. He graduated with honor in 1872. Immediately after graduation he became principal of Nichols Academy, in Dudley, Mass., where he re- mained seven years, diligently studying law in his leisure hours with the view of ultimately adopting the legal profession. While living in Dudley he was active in town affairs, and was for four years upon the school committee. When in 1879 he retired from school-teaching, he came to Boston and entered the law office of Child & Powers. Two years later he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and at once began practice. In 1886 he formed a partnership with William Schofield, then instructor in the law of torts at the Harvard Law School, under the firm name of Coggan & Schofield, and they have since continued together with offices in Boston and Malden. Mr. Coggan established his home in the latter city when he began his legal studies in Boston, and there, as in Dudley, he early became active in local affairs. During the second year of his residence there he was made a member of the school com- mittee, which position he held for three years. Then in 1884 he ran as an independent candidate for the office of mayor, against the regular nominee, and was defeated ; but the next year, running again as an independent, he was elected. His administration was so successful that he was reelected for a second term by an almost unanimous vote. Declining a nomination for a third term, he retired from office with an admirable record. In 1872 Mr. Coggan was married to Miss Luella B. Robbins, daughter of C. C. Robbins, of Bristol, Me. ; they have had three children.
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