Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke was born in Annam, Dumfreshire, Scotland, May 1, 1829. He removed with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840, was educated at Woodward College and became a bookseller arid publisher in that city. He edited George Rogers Clarke’s : “Campaign in the ‘Illinois’ in 1788-9” (Cincinnati 1869), James McBride’s “Pioneer Biographies: (1869), and is the author of a pamphlet entitled, “The Prehistoric Remains which were Found on the Site of the City of Cincinnati with a Vindication of the Cincinnati Tablet,” printed privately, 1876 --Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography.
The mystery of the fate of Sir John Franklin for a long term of years aroused the sympathy of the civilized world. He had sailed from England in May, 1845, in two British ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a voyage of discovery of the northwest passage across our continent, and never returned. Several expeditions were sent in search, two from our country, DeHaven’s and Griffith’s in 1850, and the last under Dr. E. K. Kane in 1853. The last under McClintock sailed from England in 1857 in the little steam-yacht Fox, purchased by Lady Franklin, and brought back from the Eskimos intelligence of the sad fate of the expedition with many relics.
From Historical Collections of Ohio: By Henry Howe; Pub. 1888