People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — REV. WILLIAM G. CLARKE, THE SCOURGE OF CHICAGO GAMBLERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REV. WILLIAM G. CLARKE, THE SCOURGE OF CHICAGO GAMBLERS.

On Mr. Clarke, as chairman of the committee on gambling of tne Civic federation. has fallen the brunt, of tlie battle being waged against gambling in Chicago. Mr. Clarke was born at Adrian. Mich., in 1861. His parents removed soon afterward to the City of New York, and then westward, finally settling in Chicago. They were Presbyterians, and when William G. was a boy of 14 he united with the congregation of Rev Albert Kittredge, b. D . now of New York. Ho ■finished his college and seminary studies In 1883. and after holding the pastorate of a Waukegan and a! terward of a Riverside Presbyterian church, he. in 1888. received a call from the ('ampbell Park (Chicago) Presbyterian church, of which congregation he is still the pastor. Perhaps, says a ( hlcago paper, no better equipped man could be found us a leader in this new crusade against the vice of gambling.

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