He was born in 1862 to Clarence Howard Clark, Senior He followed his father into his grandfather"s business, hiring on as a clerk with E. W. Clark & Company in 1879 and becoming a partner in 1885. 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 was admitted to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1888 and served for 10 years as president of the Centennial National Bank. 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. The Clarks sold the estate in 1923 for $250,000 to Dorothy East. Cadwalader.
Clark died of "a stroke of apoplexy" on January 10, 1916, at the Pineland Country Club in Mullins, South Carolina.
He was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia. The New York Yacht Club. And the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Clark III, whose own financial partnership, Kendrick & Company, failed in 1922, was a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, with which he served during World War I as a captain in the 310th Field Artillery.
