Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE CLARK
This is essentially the time of the
self-made man. Time was when self-made men were born in log houses and
made their way to fame and to fortune without education except as they were
able to obtain a little, crude and unclassified, through the reading of
miscellaneous books of Hobson's choice by the light of pitch-pine torches stuck
in the ground beside them. Now the self-made man sets out along the
devious way of business life with more education, but he has to encounter greater
obstacles and more determined competition. He has no recollection of a
log domicile, but his goal is a brownstone one. Sacramento has many men
of both classes, the old and the new. Among the
latter is George H. Clark, who is forging ahead to eminence in the field of
building, the visible evidence of the growth of every city.
Born in Stockton, Cal., in December, 1880,
his education was begun in the public schools of his native city and continued
in high school in San Mateo county, where he was duly
graduated therefrom, with the degree of A. B., with
the class of 1904.
It was a business life rather than a
professional life that Mr. Clark chose for himself. Coming to Sacramento
he found employment with the Clark & Henry Construction Company as manager.
Later he went in a similar capacity to the Sacramento Cement Company, dealers
in building material, rock, lath and other merchandise in the line, and has
been so successful and so useful to the enterprise that his connection with it
is by all his friends regarded as permanent.
The captaincy of the football team of 1904
at Stanford university fell to Mr. Clark. He is
a member of the University club and of the Sutter club. The Republican party commands his political allegiance. He married
Miss Esther Numan of Stockton, Cal., in July, 1905,
and they have a son and a daughter, William R. and Katharine.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 788-789. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.