History of Plattsburgh, (Clinton County) New York United States of America

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Biographies:

Nathaniel Walling Clark, educator, was born at Plattsburg, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1859; son of George L. and Ja-ann (Walling) Clark, grandson of Nathaniel Clark of West Chazy, N.Y., and a descendant of Samuel Clark of Weathersfield, Conn., a soldier of the Revolution, who served under Washington at Valley Forge. He was graduated from Wesleyan university A. B. in 1879, A.M., 1882, and from Drew theological seminary, B. D. in 1883, entering the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was transferred to the Newark conference in 1885 and to the Germany conference in 1889. He was professor in the Martin mission institute, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, 1889-93 and in 1893 was transferred to the Italy conference, becoming president of the Methodist theological college at Rome, Italy. He was a reserve delegate to the General conference of 1896. He was married, Aug. 22, 1883, to Felicia H., daughter of the Rev. Henry A. Buttz, D.D., of Madison, N. J. He was elected a member of the British and American arch?ological society.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet, was born in Plattsburg, N.Y., Sept. 27, 1808; daughter of Oliver and Margaret (Miller) Davidson. Her father was a physician and her mother an author. The child was remarkably well read before she was twelve years old, and was the author of numerous verses before she was nine. Her propensity for writing verses was checked for a time by her parents who denied her pen and paper. She was largely a creature of impulse and would stop in the midst of pleasure or work to write. In 1824 she attended Mrs. Willard's school at Troy, N.Y., but application to her studies undermined her health and she was taken home. She left in manuscript 278 poems including five of several cantos each. In speaking of her accomplishment, Shelley, the poet, said: "In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and of Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so early, so ardent and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement." Her sister, Margaret Miller, had a similar sensibility and precocity and her poems were introduced to the world by Washington Irving. She died when fifteen years old. Their brother, Levi P., was a lieutenant in the U.S. army and also "wrote verses with elegance and ease." He died when twenty-five years old. Lucretia's poems were published under the title Amir Khan and Other Poems with a sketch by S. F. B. Morse (1828; new edition, illustrated by Darley, 1871); and the works of the two sisters in 1850. She died in Plattsburg, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1825.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor