Clarence Howard Clark, Jr.

Clarence Howard Clark, Jr. (1862 - January 9, 1916) was a financier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for 10 years the president of the Centennial National Bank there.^[1]

Biography

He was born in 1862 to Clarence Howard Clark, Sr.^[1] He followed his father into his grandfather's business, hiring on as a clerk with E. W. Clark & Co. in 1879 and becoming a partner in 1885. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1888 and served for 10 years as president of the Centennial National Bank.^[1] Clark Jr. built his own West Philly mansion near his father's house.

Clark was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia and at least three others.^[2]

He died of apoplexy on January 9, 1916, at the Pineland Club in Garnett, South Carolina^[1][2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Obituary". Electric railway journal. 1916. http://books.google.com/books?id=q6RMAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA149&ots=0qx5AtCuA4&dq=%22Clarence%20Howard%20Clark%22&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q=%22Clarence%20Howard%20Clark%22&f=false. "Clarence Howard Clark, Jr., president of the Centennial National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of the firm of E. W. Clark & Company of that city, bankers, died near Garnett, S. C, on Jan. 9. Mr. Clark was fifty-four years old. He entered the employ of E. W. Clark & Company in 1879, who control many public utility properties, as a clerk and became partner in 1885. For ten years he had served as president of the Centennial National Bank." 
2. ^ ^{a b} "C. Howard Clark Dead. Philadelphia Banker and Yachtsman Expires at the Pineland Club". New York Times. January 11, 1916. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50613FC3B5B17738DDDA80994D9405B868DF1D3. Retrieved 2010-09-23. "C. Howard Clark, banker, hunter, and yachtsman, died at the Pineland Club in Garnett, S.C. last night of a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Clark, vho was 54 years old, lived in Devon. He was a member of the banking firm of E. W. Clark & Co. ..." 

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Name	Clark, Clarence Howard
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Date of birth	1862
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Date of death	January 9, 1916
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