Enoch White Clark

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Enoch White Clark (1802 – August 4, 1856) was the founder of E. W. Clark & Co.,[1] a prominent financial firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that helped the U.S. government finance the Mexican–American War. In 1857, Clark was listed as one of Philadelphia's 25 millionaires.[2]

Biography

File:Enoch-clark-from-scharf-hist-of-phila.png
Portrait of Enoch White Clark (1802-1856), banker, founder of E.W. Clark & Co., and one of the richest men in Philadelphia at his death.

Clark was born in 1802 in Easthampton, Massachusetts, a descendant of Captain William Clark (1609–1690), who emigrated from England aboard the ship Mary and John and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630, and moved to the town of Easthampton in 1639.[3] Enoch traced his descent from William as follows: John (1651-1704), John (1679-1768), Eliakim (1707-1781), Lt. Asahel (1737-1822), to his father, Bohan (1772-1846), a merchant and miller who married Mary White (1777-?) on February 11, 1802.[4][5]

On February 1, 1826,[6] he married Sarah Crawford Dodge (1806-1878), daughter of Nehemiah Dodge. (After she died, her son Edward White Clark commissioned a stained-glass window in her memory in the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.[7])

Clark was at the time a broker for Allen & Co.[6]

In 1837, Enoch founded E. W. Clark & Co.[1]

Clark died on August 4, 1856, of nicotine poisoning.[8][9]

Family

Clark was the patriarch of a family that gained much prominence in Philadelphia and national affairs. He married Sarah Crawford Dodge.[10] Together they had at least four sons and three daughters:

1 Edward White Clark, (1828–1904).[11] Edward married Mary Todhunter Sill (1835–1908)[12] on July 18, 1855. They had six children:[11]
1.1 Edward Walter Clark II, (1858–1946), commodore of the Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club and senior partner in E.W. Clark & Co. He married Lydia Jane Clark. They had at least one child:
1.1.1 Edward Walter Clark III (1885–1939), who won golf's Presidents Cup (Harvard) in 1908.
1.2 Clarence Munroe Clark (1859–1937), U.S. tennis doubles champion, partner in E.W. Clark & Co.
1.3 Joseph Sill Clark, Sr. (1861–1956), U.S. tennis champion. He married Kate Richmond Avery, sister-in-law to the inventor of Tabasco sauce, on November 26, 1896, on Avery Island, Louisiana.[13] In 2002, Mrs. Clark's will bequeathed $1,950,226.11 to Harvard University.[14] They had two sons:
1.3.1 Joseph Sill Clark, Jr. (1901–1990), mayor of Philadelphia and a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania,.[15][16] Clark Jr.'s children included:
1.3.1.1 Joseph S. Clark III
1.3.1.2 Noel (Clark) Miller.
1.3.2 Avery B. Clark (d. July 14, 1957). He had at least one daughter:
1.3.2.1 Kate Avery Clark.[14]
1.4 Herbert L. Clark (1865–1940). Partner in E.W. Clark & Co.[10] Opposed Prohibition.[17] His 1913 residence became the clubhouse of the Overbrook Golf Club.[18]
1.5 Marion Clark (1867–1938).[19] Married Louis Childs Madeira (1853–1930) in 1890.[10] They had three children:
1.5.1 Edward W. Madeira
1.5.2 Crawford Clark Madeira (1894–1967). He married Sarah Claypool Neilson in 1918.[20] They had three children:
1.5.2.1 Crawford Clark Madeira (1929–2009),[21]
1.5.2.2 Harry R. Madeira,[21]
1.5.2.3 Lewis Neilson Madeira (University of Pennsylvania class of 1943, non-grad.), who had at least one child:
1.5.2.1.1 Lewis Neilson Madeira, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania class of 1967), who had at least one child:
1.5.2.1.1.1 David Clark Madeira (University of Pennsylvania class of 1989; M.G.A. 1996).
1.5.3 Elizabeth Madeira (1906–2001)
1.6 Percy Hamilton Clark (1873–1965), a top U.S. cricket player. He married Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.[22] They had at least one child:
1.6.1 Mary Todhunter "Tod" Clark (1907–1999), who in 1930 married the future New York governor and U.S. vice president Nelson Rockefeller. They had five children. They divorced in 1962, which was considered to have hurt Nelson's 1964 bid to become the GOP's candidate for U.S. president.[22]
1.6.1.1 Rodman Rockefeller
1.6.1.2 Anne Rockefeller
1.6.1.3 Steven Clark Rockefeller
1.6.1.4 and .5 twins Michael Clark Rockefeller and Mary Rockefeller.
2 Sarah Crawford Clark (1832-1835). Buried in North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island.[23]
3 Clarence Howard Clark, Sr. (1833–1906). Clarence Clark married Amie Hampton Wescott, who died in 1870 during childbirth. They had at least one child:
3.1 Clarence Howard Clark, Jr. (1862–1916); In 1873, he married Marie Motley Davis and they had a son:
3.1.1 Charles Clark III. Married Eleanor Townsend Clark (1899-1981), with whom he had two daughters and a son:
3.1.1.1 Eleanor Yerkes
3.1.1.2 daughter, name unknown
3.1.1.3 Clarence H. Clark IV,[24] who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and married Jean E. Clark. They had a son and a daughter:
3.1.1.3.1 Clarence H. Clark V, who married Kathleen, and had a son and a daughter:[25]
3.1.1.3.1.1 Chip Clark
3.1.1.3.1.2 Betsy Clark
3.1.1.3.2 Amy Clark (d. 2012).
4 J. Hinckley Clark (ca. 1835-1889). Became partner in E.W. Clark & Co. in 1872.[26]
5 Frank Hamilton Clark (1844-1882). Banker, president of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad.
6 Sarah Crawford Clark (?-?): Married Alfred Zantzinger,[27] with whom she had one son:
6.1 Clarence Clark Zantzinger (1872-1954), an architect and public servant in Philadelphia.
7 Mary White Clark (?-?): Married John Appleton Burnham.[28][29] They had at least two daughters:
7.2 Helen Clark Burnham (born in Massachusetts).[30]
7.3 Annie Crawford Grew (born in Massachusetts), who married Edward S. Grew.[30]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. There is obviously some confusion by the source; Clark died in 1856. But the passage was directly about fellow financier Francis Drexel.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Memorials of Elder John White, One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of His Descendants, 1860
  5. ↑ Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Census of Stained Glass Windows in America Window: First Unitarian Church - Window L1
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Memorial history of the city of Philadelphia, from its first settlement to year 1895
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ http://www.jscornell.com/earlyyears18.htm
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 25, 1918.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Obituary of the younger Crawford Clark Madeira
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ "Obituary: Eleanor T. Clark, active in clubs," Evening Bulletin, June 16, 1981
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Son's NYT marriage announcement, 1911
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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