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See also:CLARK, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1770-1838) , the well-known explorer, was the youngest See also:brother of the foregoing. He was See also:born in See also:Caroline See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 1st of See also:August 1770. At the See also:age of fourteen he removed with his parents to See also:Kentucky, settling .at the falls of the See also:Ohio (See also:Louisville). He entered the See also:United States See also:army as a See also:lieutenant of See also:infantry in See also:March 1792, and served under See also:General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne against the See also:Indians in 1794. In See also:July 1796 he resigned his See also:commission on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health. In 18o3—18o6, with Meriwether See also:Lewis (q.v.), he commanded the famous exploring expedition across the See also:continent to the mouth of the See also:Columbia See also:river, and was commissioned second lieutenant in March 1804 and first lieutenant in See also:January 18o6. In See also:February he again resigned from the army. He then served for a few years as brigadier-general of the See also:Louisiana territorial See also:militia, as See also:Indian See also:agent for " Upper Louisiana," as territorial See also:governor of See also:Missouri in 1813—182o, and as See also:superintendent of Indian affairs at St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis from 1822 until his See also:death there on the 1st of See also:September 1838.
End of Article: CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)
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