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  CLARK, Eli P.: Capitalist. Born Iowa City, Iowa. November 25th, 1847, son of
Timothy B. and Eliza E. (Calkins) Clark. Educated in public schools and Iowa
College, Grinnell, Iowa; taught school in Iowa, 1866: moved to Missouri, 1867,
engaged in farming and teaching district school, 1867-75. Crossed plains driving
his own team to Prescott, Arizona; assistant postmaster, clerk and bookkeeper in
general store, 1875-77; appointed Auditor Arizona District 1877, which office he
held ten years; engaged in lumber business with A. D. Adams, operating under
firm name of Clark & Adams, 1891. Moved to Los Angeles, California, 1891. and
with his brother-in-law, Gen. M. H. Sherman, built Los Angeles Consolidated
Electric Railway; vice-president and manager of this corporation; organized
Pasadena & Los Angeles Railway in 1894, opened for traffic 1895; built Los
Angeles Pacific Railway, connecting Los Angeles with Santa Monica; subsequently
built road to Venice, Del Rey and Redondo; he was president and general manager
of this corporation and half owner with General Sherman until their entire
holdings were sold to the Southern Pacific Co. and the system merged into
Pacific Electric System in 1910. Organized Mt. Hood Railway and Power Co.;
president of this corporation 1901-11; president Clark & Sherman Land Co.,
organized in 1905. Besides extensive holdings in beach property, this company
has large oil interests. He is vice-president of the Main Street Company, a
corporation holding real estate with improvements, of which the Central
Building, at Sixth and Main Streets, is the most important. He is now engaged in
the construction of the Clark Hotel, which will be eleven stories in height and
contain 550 rooms. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College,
president of the Board of Trustees of the First Congregational Church, president
of the Congregational Union, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Los
Angeles Young Men's Christian Association, also a member of the California,
University and L. A. Country Clubs of Los Angeles. Married in Prescott, Arizona,
on April 8th, 1880, to Miss Lucy H. Sherman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S.
Sherman of West Rupert, Vt. Residence, 9 St. James Park. Office, Consolidated
Realty Building, Los Angeles.

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Men of California
Western Personalities and their Affiliations
With Club Memberships and Civic Associations

ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF MEN
With Biographs of their Activities

Published by
WESTERN PRESS REPORTER, INC.
San Francisco - Los Angeles


Copyright, 1925, by
W. C. Wolfe, Managing Editor
In Collaboration with Assistants


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