Background
CLARK, Henry Alden was born on January 7, 1850 in Harbor Creek, Erie Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Chauncey G. and Ermeline E. (Wheelock) Clark.
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Henry Alden Clark
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Erie Academy; State Normal, 1864. Harvard College, 1874. Harvard College Law, 1877.
Career
After admission to the bar in 1878, Clark was associated with the Edison electric light interests in New New York He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1882, continuing with the Edison corporation until 1887. He bought and edited the Erie Gazette from 1890 to 1892.
He served as Chairman of the Republican city and county committees in 1890, and as City Solicitor of Erie from 1896 until 1899.
He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1911 through 1915. Clark was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918. He resumed the practice of his profession, and served as judge of the Orphans’ Court for Erie County from 1921 to 1931.
He died in Erie and is interred in Erie Cemetery.
Membership
Member: Erie Company Historical. Society; Elks; Mason 32°. Clubs: Art (Director), University (Erie, Pennsylvania).
Connections
Spouse Sophy Gertrude McCreary, July 18.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party