Edward Walter Clark III (1885 – November 16, 1939) was an investment banker with E. W. Clark & Co.

Biography

He was born in 1885 to Edward Walter Clark Jr. and Mary Newbold (Taylor) Clark. He graduated from

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in 1907; the following year, he won golf's Presidents Cup (Harvard). During World War I, he served overseas with the

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. He worked at E.W. Clark for 19 years, making partner in 1920. He also served for several years as a director of the Farmers National Bank of

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, Pennsylvania, founded by a maternal great-grandfather. Clark died on November 16, 1939, in Chestnut Hill Hospital after a brief illness.

References

1885 births 1939 deaths E. W. Clark & Co. Harvard University alumni Clark banking family {{US-business-bio-1880s-stub