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CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 442 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838) , the well-known explorer, was the youngest brother of the foregoing. He was born in Caroline county, Virginia, on the 1st of August 1770. At the age of fourteen he removed with his parents to Kentucky, settling .at the falls of the
Ohio
  (Louisville). He entered the United States army as a
lieutenant
  of infantry in
March
  1792, and served under General Anthony Wayne against the Indians in 1794. In July 1796 he resigned his commission on account of ill-
health
 . In 18o318o6, with Meriwether
Lewis
  (q.v.), he commanded the famous exploring expedition across the continent to the mouth of the
Columbia
  river, and was commissioned second
lieutenant
  in
March
  1804 and first lieutenant in January 18o6. In
February
  he again resigned from the army. He then served for a few years as brigadier-general of the Louisiana territorial militia, as Indian agent for " Upper Louisiana," as territorial
governor
  of Missouri in 1813182o, and as superintendent of Indian affairs at St Louis from 1822 until his death there on the 1st of September 1838.


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