CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD American clergyman, was born of New England ancestry at Aylmer, Prov ince of Quebec, Canada, Sept. 12, 1851. He graduated at Dart mouth college in 1873 and at Andover theological seminary in 1876, and was pastor successively of the Williston Congregational church in Portland, Me., and of the Phillips Congregational church in South Boston, Mass. In Feb. 1881 he founded at Port land the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour, which beginning as a small society in a single New England church, de veloped into a great interdenominational organization, which in 1908 reported 8o,000 societies and more than 4,000,000 members throughout the world. For many years he devoted himself to this work as president and finally president emeritus of the United Societies of Christian Endeavour and president of the World's Christian Endeavour Union, and as editor, and then honorary editor of the Christian Endeavor World until his death at Newton, Mass., on May 26, 1927.