The son, who often went by the name C. Howard Clark, built his own mansion near his father's house in West Philadelphia, at 4220 Spruce Street, on the southwest corner of 42nd Street. He later moved to "Chestnutwold Farm" at Valley Forge and Dorset roads in Devon, Pennsylvania, 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.[2] The Clarks sold the estate in 1923 for $250,000
($4,471,000 today[3]) to Dorothy E. Cadwalader.[4]
He was survived by his wife, Eleanor D. Head Clark Jr., who died August 29, 1930, at her summer home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, and a son, Clarence H. Clark III (-1943).[6] Clark III, whose own financial partnership, Kendrick & Co., failed in 1922, was a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry,[7] 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,[8] 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,[9] and a daughter, Amy Clark (d. 2012). Clark V and his wife Kathleen had a son, Chip, and a daughter, Betsy.[9]
References
^ abc"Obituary". Electric Railway Journal. 1916. Archived from the original on 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2020-11-23. 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.
^"Our Landed Estates; the 13th of a series of articles on charming country homes", Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, May 14, 1916.
