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__NOTOC__ Enoch White Clark (1802 – August 4, 1856) was the founder of E. W. Clark & Co., a prominent financial firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that helped the U.S. government finance the Mexican–American War. In 1857, Clark was listed as one of Philadelphia's 25 millionaires.〔 There is obviously some confusion by the source; Clark died in 1856. But the passage was directly about fellow financier Francis Drexel.〕 ==Biography== Clark was born in 1802 in Easthampton, Massachusetts, a descendant of Captain William Clark (1609–1690), who emigrated from England aboard the ship ''Mary and John'' and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630, and moved to the town of Easthampton in 1639. Enoch traced his descent from William as follows: John (1651-1704), John (1679-1768), Eliakim (1707-1781), Lt. Asahel (1737-1822), to his father, Bohan (1772-1846), a merchant and miller who married Mary White (1777-?) on February 11, 1802.〔(Memorials of Elder John White, One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of His Descendants, 1860 )〕〔(Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society )〕 On February 1, 1826, he married Sarah Crawford Dodge (1806-1878), daughter of Nehemiah Dodge. (After she died, her son Edward White Clark commissioned a stained-glass window in her memory in the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.〔(Census of Stained Glass Windows in America Window: First Unitarian Church - Window L1 )〕) Clark was at the time a broker for Allen & Co.〔 In 1837, Enoch founded E. W. Clark & Co.〔 Clark died on August 4, 1856, of nicotine poisoning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enoch White Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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