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. 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 Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia; 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 Pineland Country Club in

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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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of Clark's house at 4220 Spruce Street in West Philadelphia. (From

by guidebook publisher

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