William S. Clark, American colonel and politician (died 1886)

William S. Clark

American chemist, botanist and college president (1826–1886)

William Smith Clark was an American professor of chemistry, botany, and zoology; a colonel during the American Civil War; and a leader in agricultural education. Raised and schooled in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He…