Background
Clerk, Ira was born on June 21, 1885 in at Ingham, Australia. Son of Arthur Temple and Alice Maud May (Cunningham) Clerk.
Clerk, Ira was born on June 21, 1885 in at Ingham, Australia. Son of Arthur Temple and Alice Maud May (Cunningham) Clerk.
Student Boys Normal School, Brisbane, 1898-1900, Toowoomba Grammar School (preparatory school), January-December 1901.
Came to the United States, 1905, naturalized citizen, 1914. Clerk New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company, Brisbane, Australia, 1902-1905. Sanger (California) Lumber Company, 1905.
Canadian Bank of Commerce, San Francisco and elsewhere, 1906-1912, Bank of Italy, San Francisco, 1913-1914.
With Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco since November 1914. beginning as acting assistant cashier, 1st vice president since 1936.
Clubs: Bohemian, Commonwealth, San Francisco Flycasting (San Francisco).
Married Winifred Mastick, December 27, 1913. Children: George Temple, Franklyn, Douglas, Norman.