Biography of
Harry H. Clark
p. 1622
HARRY H. CLARK
has been cashier of the Bank of Wayne City since its organization in 1902, and
is recognized in this city as one of the able and progressive young business men
of the place. The bank, which was organized in July, 1902, as before stated, is
operated by Goddard & Hall as a private financial institution, with a capital of
$10,000. Present deposits amount to about $52,000. The proprietors are
H. T. Goddard, of Mt. Carmel, and T.
W. Hall, of
Carmi, Illinois. Mr. Clark has been in charge of the bank
since its opening.
Born November 28,
1872, near Crossville, Illinois, in White county,
Harry
H. Clark
is the son of
H. H. Clark,
also a native of
White county, born there in 1843, who is a retired farmer now living his
declining years in Carmi. He is the son of
George Clark,
a native of Vermont and an early pioneer of White county.
H. H. Clark, Sr.,
was a soldier in
the Union army during the war of the rebellion, serving in the Eighty-seventh
Illinois for three years. He married
Sidney A. Britton,
the daughter of
W. B. Britton,
a native of
Kentucky, who migrated to Illinois in early life, and they reared a family of
nine children, including:
Lela, now deceased; Luin R., a teacher in the Jacksonville schools; Harry
H., of Wayne City; George W.; Sylvia, a teacher near Jacksonville; Jessie, a
clerk in Jacksonville National Bank; Cecil, a student in Jacksonville
College, as is also Genevieve, the youngest of the family.
The boyhood and youth of
Harry
H. Clark was passed in attendance upon the common schools of his home
community. He later entered the old Enfield College, after which he was
graduated from the Normal at Valparaiso. Thereafter he taught school for
eight years in White, and was principal of the Carmi high school for two
years, spending in all four years in various capacities in the Carmi
schools.
In 1902 he came to Wayne City
to take charge of the new Wayne City Bank then organized, and he has
remained a citizen of this place continuously since that time, and has
fulfilled his full share of the duties of a citizen during his residence
here. In addition to his banking duties be, together with Goddard & Hall, is
interested in a fine farm near Wayne City, of one hundred and sixty acres in
a most fertile spot, and they make a specialty of the breeding of Shetland
ponies. Mr. Clark now has a handsome herd of fourteen ponies on the place,
and under his management the farm is kept well up to the standard of
productiveness in all lines. In a fraternal way Mr. Clark is a member of Orel Lodge, No. 759, A. F. & A. M., and is worshipful master of that lodge.
He is also a member of the Odd Fellows, lodge No. 558.
In 1903
Mr. Clark was united
in marriage with
Miss Zura Hollon, a daughter of
A. W. and
Nancy (Fleming) Hollon, of Wayne City. Of their union two children have been born. They are
Leland, aged five, and
Howard Kenneth, two years old.
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