Nathan Clark SR. (1787 - 1880)

Born 10 Aug 1787 in Cornwall, Orange, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Julia (Nichols) Clark — married 10 Feb 1811 in Athens, Greene Co. NY

Descendants

Died 15 Jan 1880 at age 92 in Athens, Greene, New York

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Biography

Nathan Clark was born in 1787 in Cornwall, Orange, New York, son of Reuben Clark and Mary Peppard. In 1809 Nathan Clark established the Athens Pottery Works in Athens, NY. The business was very successful, virtually monopolizing the pottery manufacturing in New York around the turn of the 19th Century. Nathan married Julia Nichols. They had three sons, Nathan Henry (died young), Edward Cabot, and Nathan Jr. Nathan Jr. took over the family business. Edward went on to found the Singer Sewing Machine Company and become one of the richest men in America.

BURIAL Mount Hope Cemetery Athens, Greene County, New York, USA^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55904695

• Weber, Nicholas Fox. "The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud" (New York, Knopf, 2007).
• Ries, Heinrich, and Leighton, Henry. "Histories of the Clay-Working Industry In The United States" (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1909).
• Clarke, Edgar W. "History and Genealogy of Samuel Clarke, Sr. and His Descendents" (St. Louis, Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892), pp.37-40.
• http://www.sodasandbeers.com/ManufactureNotes/SABManufNotes57424.htm
• Funeral performed at Athens Trinity Episcopal Church and was Buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in family plot at Athens, Greene Co. NY

Clarke, Edgar W. "History and Genealogy of Samuel Clarke, Sr. and His Descendents" (St. Louis, Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892), pp.37-40