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Clay, Joseph, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1741. In 1778-80 he was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress; and was judge of the United States district court of Georgia in 1796-1801. He was paymaster-general of the southern department during the revolution. He died Jan. 16, 1805, in Savannah, Ga.

Clay, Joseph, lawyer, jurist, clergyman, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1764, in Savannah, Ga. He was a leading member of the state constitutional convention and was United States district judge of Georgia in 1796-1801. In 1803-09 was a representative to the eighth, ninth and tenth congresses. In 1807-09 was pastor of the First baptist church of Boston. He died Jan. 11, 1811, in Boston, Mass.

Clay, Matthew, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1797-1813 he was a representative to the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth congresses. He died in 1815 in Virginia.

Clayberg, John Bertrand, lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 8, 1853, in Cuba, Ill. In 1875 he began the practice of law in Lansing, Mich. He became a member of the Montana state senate. In 1889 he was attorney-general of Montana. In 1891 he was lecturer on mining law in the law department of the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Clay-Clopton, Virginia Carolina, litterateur, author, was born in 1825, in Nash county, N.C. In 1865 she secured the release of Senator Clay, who had been imprisoned at Fort Monroe with Jefferson Davis. She is the author of Memories of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, or A Belle of the Fifties.

Claypole, Edith Jane, biologist, was born Jan. 1, 1870, in England. In 1894 she became instructor in zoölogy at the Wellesley college. She is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. She is the author of Embryology of Anurida Maritima.

Claypool, Benjamin F., statesman, was born Dec. 1825, in Connersville, Ind. He was in 1856 a delegate to the Philadelphia convention that nominated John C. Fremont. In 1860 he was elected state senator from the counties of Fayette and Union to the Indiana legislature. In 1874 he was the nominee for congress in the then fifth congressional district; and was prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his state. He became president of the national farmers' congress.

Claypole, Edward Fuller, educator, naturalist, scientist, was born June 1, 1835, in England. He joined the geological survey that found the oldest known remains of the fossil fish. For fifteen years he was professor of natural science in the Buchtel college of Akron, Ohio. He was a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He died Aug. 17, 1901, in Long Beach, Cal.

Claypoole, James, lawyer, jurist. In 1685 he was commissioned associate justice of the state supreme court of Pennsylvania.

Clayson, Edward, mariner, pioneer, journalist, statesman, was born in 1839 in Kent, England. During the Russian war of 1854-55 he served as a boy on her majesty's ship Orion in the Baltic fleet; and in 1857-58 served on board the Amazonas frigate during the great rebellion in Peru. He came to America in 1859; and in 1865 located in Kitsap county, being one of the pioneers of Washington territory. In 1868-70 he was a United States mail contractor; and is now a journalist and editor of the Patriarch of Seattle, Wash.

Clayton, Alexander M., lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Arkansas when it was a territory; and in 1835 was appointed one of the United States judges for that district.

Clayton, Augustin Smith, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born on Nov. 27, 1783, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was appointed judge of the superior court; was a presidential elector in 1829; and in 1831-35 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-second and twenty-third congresses. He died June 21, 1839, at Athens, Ga.

Clayton, Benjamin F., farmer, congressman was born in 1839 near Carlisle, Ky. He moved to Indiana in 1855; and to Iowa in 1873. He has been a member of the Iowa house of representatives for three terms; and has been president of the board of trustees of Simpson college of Indianola, Ia. For four years he has been president of the Farmers' national congress of the United States; and in 1895 was president of the Pan-American agricultural parliament at Atlanta, Ga. In 1896 he was prominently identified as a nominee for the governorship of Iowa. In 1899-1901 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-sixth congress.

Clayton, Bertram Tracy, civil engineer, congressman, was born on Dec. 19, 1862, in Clayton, Ala. In 1888 he entered business as civil engineer in Brooklyn, N.Y. During the Spanish-American war he commanded a troop guard. In 1899-1901 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. Since 1901 he has