He became its proprietor and remained at its head for the rest of his life. Mr. Clark died in 1841. He was the author of a number of short poems and of a series ofshort essays, anecdotes, etc., entitled '' Ollopodiana," which were published in the Knickerbocker Magazine, then edited by his brother Lewis. The latter conducted the Knickerbocker for many years, and became wideh' known by his monthly "Editor's Table," a selection from which was published with the title, "Knick-knacks from an Editor's Table,'' in 1852. He died at Piermont-on-the-Hudson, Novembers, 1873.

The noted naval commander, Matthew Galbraith Perry, whose claim to literary distinction rests upon the notes which he furnished for an interesting account prepared by F. L. Hawks and George Jones, c)f his naval expedition to Japan, resided at one time in Mount Pleasant, on the Sing Sing road. Commodore Perry was born at Newport, R. I., in 1794, and was a brother of the famous Oliver Hazard Perry, who fought the battle of Lake Erie. As commander of the " Cyane," he fixed the first settlement of Liberia, and in a cruise in the schooner "Shark," in 1821-24, he captured several pirates. He took an active part in the Mexican War, and in 1852-54 commanded the expedition to Japan, with which country he negotiated an important treaty, ^larch 21, 1854.

Another great naval hero, Admiral D. G. Farragut, was a resident of Westchester County (Hastings, in the town of Greenburgh) in 18<51-62.

John Orde Creighton, another commodore of the United States navy, who was born in New York City, died at Sing Sing, October 13, 1838. Commodore Josejih B. Hull, of the Ignited States navy, was also born in Westchester.