CLEWS, HENRY

(1840-1923), an American banker, 6. in Staff ords hire, Eng. As % youth he studied for the ministry, but coming to New York on a visit with his father, he took a position as a clerk in a busine firm in that city. After the panic of 1857 he organized the banking firm of Stout, Clews & Mason. During the Civil War he negotiated the sales of Government bonds for the Federal Government. In 1877 he organized the Yer firm of Henry Clews & Co., of which he was the active head until his death. As such he has been one of the most influential figures in the financing of American industries. He was the author of Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, 1885; The. Wall Street Point of View, 1900; Fifty Years in Wall Street, 1908, and Speeches and E ays, 1910.