Clarence Howard Clark Jr. (1862 – January 9, 1916) was a financier in

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. He was born in 1862 to

Clarence Howard Clark Sr. Clarence Howard Clark Sr. (April 19, 1833 – 1906) was an influential banker, land owner, and developer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ten years after his death, ''The New York Times'' called him one of the city's "most prominent men of his day ...

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

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in 1888 and served for 10 years as president of the

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. The son, who often went by the name C. Howard Clark, built his own mansion near his father's house in

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, a
4220 Spruce Street, on the southwest corner of 42nd Street
He later moved to "Chestnutwold Farm" at Valley Forge and Dorset roads in

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, where he built a house in 1911 on a century-old 57-acre estate that he bought from Christopher Fallon, which he bought from the Perkins family. The Clarks sold the estate in 1923 for $250,000 ($ today) to Dorothy E. Cadwalader. An avid

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man, Clark was a member of the

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; the

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; and the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of

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. Clark died of "a stroke of apoplexy" on January 10, 1916, at the

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. He was survived by his wife, Eleanor D. Head Clark Jr., who died August 29, 1930, at her summer home in

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, and a son, Clarence H. Clark III (-1943). Clark III, whose own financial partnership, Kendrick & Co., failed in 1922, was a member of the

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, with which he served during World War I as a captain in the 310th Field Artillery. Clark III married Eleanor Townsend Clark (1899-1981), with whom he had two daughters, including Eleanor Yerkes, and a son, Clarence H. Clark IV,"Obituary: Eleanor T. Clark, active in clubs," ''Evening Bulletin'', June 16, 1981 who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Clark IV, husband of Jean E. Clark, had a son, Clarence H. Clark V, and a daughter, Amy Clark (d. 2012). Clark V and his wife Kathleen had a son, Chip, and a daughter, Betsy.

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