Memorable Obituaries From the Times Archives. This is the story of Cassius Marcellus Clay . He forestalled further ado by slicing off the assailant. He was 8. 4 at the time. Clay Weds Pretty Dora. She ran away repeatedly from home and from the boarding school to which her husband sent her. Green Clay and the former Sally Lewis, Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on Oct. White Hall, his family. Returning home after earning a law degree in 1. Lexington, served three terms in the Kentucky General Assembly and was a captain in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry in the Mexican War. Financial aid programs and services offered by the College Board, including PowerFAIDS AmeriCorps programs do more than move communities forward; they serve their members by creating jobs and providing pathways to opportunity for young people entering. In 1. 84. 4, he freed his own slaves and the next year started The True American, an emancipationist newspaper published in Lexington. His proposals for gradually ending slavery, which he also promulgated in public lectures, did not go over well in Kentucky. He kept a cannon on hand to protect the newspaper office from looming mobs and weathered several more attempts on his life. General Clay, who in the 1. Republican Party, was a friend and staunch supporter of Abraham Lincoln. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized the Cassius M. Clay Battalion, a corps of several hundred volunteers charged with protecting the White House. In 1. 86. 1, Lincoln appointed him minister to Russia, a post he held through the following year and again from 1. Petersburg, General Clay was instrumental in brokering the deal that in 1. United States purchase Alaska. The general. Barricaded in White Hall with a veritable arsenal beside him, he pined for the faithless Dora and worried obsessively that enemies, real and imagined, were coming to kill him. Photo. In 1. 90. 3, The New York Times ran two articles pondering the level of General Clay. He fathered a string of children . Two daughters, Mary Barr Clay (1. Laura Clay (1. 84. In 1. 85. 3, he donated the land for what became Berea College in Berea, Ky. Established two years later, it was the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, open to blacks and to women from its inception. General Clay was buried in Richmond Cemetery, in Richmond, Ky., and his funeral was newsworthy for the racially mixed crowd in attendance..
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