Wood County, West Virginia    Biography of Friend Ebenezer CLARK, Ph. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg. 152

FRIEND EBENEZER CLARK, Ph. D. While the greater part of his career has
been devoted to the teaching of chemistry, Doctor Clark is widely known
in scientific circles by reason of his original scholarship and as an
authority on the chemical side of industry.

Doctor Clark, who for the past seven years has been head of the Department
of Chemistry of the West Virginia University, is a native West Virginian,
born at New Martinsville, August 21, 1876, son of Josephus and Lina Russell
(Cox) Clark. His grandfather, Ebenezer Clark, came to West Virginia from
Pennsylvania and settled in Wetzel County. Josephus Clark was born in
Marshall County, West Virginia, in 1835, and in Wetzel County was a
merchant and farmer, and served one term as sheriff. He died in May,
1905. His wife, Lina Russell Cox, was born in New Martinsville, West
Virginia, in 1848, daughter of Friend and Susan Cox, and she is still
living at New Martinsville at the age of seventy-three. She and her
husband were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and
Josephus Clark was a Mason.

Friend Ebenezer Clark grew up at New Martinsville, graduated from the
high school there in 1894, and from that year until 1898 carried the
undergraduate studies of West Virginia University, receiving in the
latter year the Bachelor of Science degree. The following four years
he spent in graduate work in Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore,
and was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1902. Since then
he has been a special student in other institutions of learning,
having attended the University of Chicago during the summer session
of 1907, and was in the University of Berlin during 1908. Professor
Clark was an instructor in chemistry in West Virginia University
during the school year 1902-03. Leaving his alma mater, he was
instructor in industrial chemistry in the Pennsylvania State College
from 1903 to 1905 and from 1905 to 1914 was professor of chemistry
at Center College, Danville, Kentucky. In 1914 he returned to his
congenial association with West Virginia University, and since then
has held the chair of chemistry.

Doctor Clark is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, is a Fellow and life member of the Chemical Society of London,
and a member of the American Chemical Society, American Electra-Chemical
Society and the Society of Chemical Industry. He is a Phi Kappa Psi and
Phi Beta Kappa, belongs to the Masonic Lodge at New Martinsville, and
took the Knight Templar Commandery degrees at Danville, Kentucky. He
and Mrs. Clark are members of the Presbyterian Church.

In June, 1911, he married Emma May Hanna, who was horn at Newcastle,
Pennsylvania, daughter of Samuel and Lucy J. (Dinsmore) Hanna. Doctor
and Mrs. Clark have two children, Josephine Brown, born August 6,
1912, and Samuel Friend, born February 16, 1916.