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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
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and a $ 27,000 library that held a large collection of books, meticulously catalogued in two volumes. The parklike grounds, which occupied a full city block on the southwest corner of 42nd Street, were open to the public, and included a fine collection of plants, including "a rare
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Orleans, and made considerable money performing domestic exchanges in the wake of the 1836
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art dealers to be matchless"; wallpaper "hand painted by a
Japanese"; an $ 1,800 chandelier, a $ 2,000 mantelpiece, mosaic tiling, radiant heat from hot water piped under the floors, a hydraulic elevator, and "secret vaults for the treasures of silver plate." It also had a
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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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America." (Chestnutwold would be torn down in 1916 by the Philadelphia Wrecking and Contracting Company. It would be replaced 10 years later by the Episcopal Divinity School, which was built in 1926.)
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created a board of trustees, Clark was on the first board. That same year, the city government established a board to promote and create museums, and Clark was on it, too. In 1899, he was a Life Member (City
Division) of the
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960:. Boston: Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.). 1907. p. 119.
581:. Philadelphia. Evening Public Ledger. April 7, 1916. p. 9.
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Jenkins, Howard Malcolm; George Oberkirsh Seilhamer (1898).
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The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made
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182:. The bank commissioned architect
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37:, land owner, and developer in
1012:"What's In A Name: Clark Park"
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781:Foundation, The Philadelphia.
608:"King's Views of Philadelphia"
547:"Kingsessing and Maylandville"
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746:"Obituary: Clarence H. Clark"
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41:. Ten years after his death,
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233:Free Library of Philadelphia
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838:"Centennial National Bank"
39:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
272:Clarence Howard Clark Jr.
257:Philadelphia Free Library
253:Walnut Street West branch
188:its headquarters building
179:The Philadelphia Inquirer
31:Clarence Howard Clark Sr.
472:Electric Railway Journal
311:Grubel, Matthew (2008).
170:Centennial National Bank
57:Providence, Rhode Island
1158:History of Philadelphia
1089:by guidebook publisher
1102:Clarence C. Zantzinger
1044:From "Poilu" to "Yank"
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522:www.archives.upenn.edu
1183:E. W. Clark & Co.
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927:"APS Member History"
912:The Railway News ...
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285:during World War I.
88:Frederick J. Kimball
407:Vitiello, Dominic;
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107:Nathaniel B. Browne
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790:www.philafound.org
755:. March 14, 1906.
753:The New York Times
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84:Edward White Clark
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