Homer Pierce Clark

Homer Pierce Clark (also Homer P. Clark , born July 6, 1868 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 27, 1970 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was an American publisher .

Life

Family and education

The native Boston Homer Pierce Clark, descendant of the painter Winslow Homer and the grocer Samuel Stillman Pierce, son of Charles Henry Clark (1836-1907) and his wife Martha Cowper Pierce Clark (1837-1929), 1887 graduate of St. Paul High School , went on to study law at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis , in 1894 he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws . In the same year he was admitted to the bar at the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Homer Pierce Clark married Elizabeth Turner Dunsmoor (1886–1977) in Saint Paul on January 12, 1910. From this connection came the daughters Elizabeth Turner, Catherine Pierce and Helen Dunsmoor and the sons Lieutenant Robert Stuart Clark, killed on February 1, 1943 during combat during World War II , and Thomas Kimball. Homer Pierce Clark, who resided in a manor house built in Saint Paul in 1884, died in the autumn of 1970 at the old age of 102.

Professional background

At the beginning of his professional career, Homer Pierce Clark held an employee position for the Finch, Van Slyck and McConville Wholesale Dry Goods Company in Saint Paul from 1888 , which he filled until 1890. Two years later he moved to the West Publishing Company , where he was appointed treasurer in 1902 . In 1921 he was appointed President, in 1932 he was elected Chairman of the Board , and in 1950 the Honorary Chairman of the Board was ceremoniously retired.

Homer Pierce Clark also held the positions of director of the Waldorf Paper Products Company , the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company , the Vice Chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee for the ninth district in World War I. , of the Trustee of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library in Saint Paul and of the President of the St. Paul Community and War Chest in 1943 and 1944 .

Homer Pierce Clark, who has been named Honorary Chairman of the American Law Book Company and has a publishing focus on law books, was a member of the American Bar Association , the Minnesota State Bar Association and the Mayflower Society.

literature

William Richard Cutter: American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Volume XX, American Historical Society, New York, 1924, p. 75.
The Lawyer, Volume I, American Law Book Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1937, p. 124.
Commercial West, Volume 116, Commercial West, Co., Minneapolis, Minn., 1958, p. 37.
Who was who in America: with world notables: Volume VI, 1974-1976, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1976, p. 79.
Virginia Huck: The Many Worlds of Homer P. Clark, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1980
Lila Johnson Goff, James E. Fogerty, Minnesota Historical Society: The oral history collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, 1984, p. 3.
Jay P. Pedersen: International Directory of Company Histories./ Vol. 40, St. James Press, London, 2001, p. 504.

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personal data
SURNAME	Clark, Homer Pierce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clark, Homer P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 1970
Place of death	Saint Paul , Minnesota