a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in St. Helena Parish, La., Jan. 7, 1835. He was converted at the family altar in his fourteenth year; graduated with honors at Centenary College, Jackson, La., in 1863, and in the following year entered the Mississippi Conference. In 1868 he was transferred to the St. Louis Conference, but early in 1870 was obliged to become a superannuate, and retired to Darlington, La., where he died, Dee. 29, 1870. Mr. Clinton was social and genial, honest and humble, entertaining and successful, energetic and devout. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1871, p. 599.