David Lytle Clark (1864 - 1939)

Born 26 Sep 1864 in Londonderry, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Jane (Snitger) Clark — married Sep 1890 in Beaver Falls, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1939 at age 74 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

David Clark is Notable.

David Clark migrated from Ireland to USA.

His first job was selling newspapers and carrying market baskets. Then, at the ripe old age of 12, he attended business college, taking courses at night after working during the day.

His first job as an adult was in a frame factory where he earned $1.50 a week. After that, he moved from one job to another, working at everything from paint manufacturing to selling fish. Finally he found steady work with a small New York candy manufacturer. He drove the delivery wagon, peddling chocolates door to door.

After three years in the job he had enough money to buy the wagon, horses, and merchandise, and in 1886 he went into business for himself. He manufactured his candy in a small house in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and sold it from the wagon. The success of his chocolate business surprised even Clark.

During his life, the D. L. Clark Company became a leading manufacturer of confections, and the Clark Bar, introduced during World War I, made Clark a household word.

From the book The Name's Familiar by Laura Lee^[2]

ClarkSnitger

[3]

David married Martha and then after Martha's death he married her sister Carrie in 1925. It is possible that the trip to Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii February 21-27 of 1925 was a honeymoon trip^[4]

Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, Utah) Feb 4, 1939	The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania) Feb 6, 1939
Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio) Feb 6, 1939	The Morning Herald Uniontown, PA Feb 9, 1939

He died at 74 years of age^[5]

Clark Mausoleum

David Lytle Clark Marker

Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania^[6]

Census

1880 Allegheny, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States^[7]

1900 Precinct 1 McKeesport city Ward 3, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States^[8]

1910 North Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States ^[9]

1920 North Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States ^[10]

1930 North Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Clark
2. ↑ Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc ISBN: 1565548221WAPI (Tower ID): 101948449
3. ↑ "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-20620-38146-5?cc=1589502 : accessed 09 Nov 2014), 004811647 > image 1248 of 1502; county courthouses, Pennsylvania.
4. ↑ Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving or Departing at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900–1954. NARA Microfilm Publication A3422, 269 rolls; A3510, 175 rolls; A3574, 27 rolls; A3575,
5. ↑ Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates #10572, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #18496
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW6C-HH3 : 24 December 2015), David Clark in household of S S Clark, Allegheny, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 10, sheet 255D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1086; FHL microfilm 1,255,086.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3MW-WCW : 22 January 2015), David L. Clark, Precinct 1 McKeesport city Ward 3, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 6B, family 118, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,368.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGQ4-Z6T : 29 October 2015), David L Clark, North Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 179, sheet 8B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,309.
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6BV-1PF : 14 December 2015), David L Clark, North Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 7B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,516.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCCC-F4P : 8 December 2015), D S Clark, 1930.