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J. HARRY CLARK

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J. Harry Clark, treasurer of the Third Loan & Savings Association, of Piqua, is a citizen who has found time from his numerous important business and financial connections to render valued service to his community, being at present president of the Piqua city council. He was born at Piqua, October 16, 1852, a son of Harvey and Mary J. (Kitchen) Clark, the latter a native of Piqua and the former of Westfield, N. J., from whence he came to Piqua about I840 and engaged in the grocery business. Harvey Clark subsequently became a manufacturer of engines, threshing machinery and tile machinery, as a member of the firm of Rouzer, Evans & Clark. Likewise he was a stockholder of the Citizens Bank and a director of the Third National Bank, and was prominent in civic affairs, at one time serving as mayor. He and his wife Were the parents of seven children. J. Harry Clark was educated in the schools of Piqua and engaged in business with his father, with whom he was identified for twenty years in the production of building stone, the firm style being H. Clark & Son.

When this business was sold, in 1889, J. Harry Clark entered the lumber business, with the Piqua Lumber Company, and later was with the Piqua Hosiery Company. When he disposed of his interests in the latter concern, Mr. Clark engaged in the real estate business, in Piqua, where he is now treasurer of the Third Savings & Loan Association. For more than ten years he was also connected with the Piqua National Bank, and has served as director of the old Third National Bank which was taken over by the Piq ua National Bank. During 1918, he served as secretary of the Third Savings & Loan Company. During the war period he was an active member of the war chest committee. For a number of years he has served as president of the council, his other public service including efficient work as a tax commissioner, to which executive office of Miami county he was appointed by Governor Willis. He was for a number of years, a director of the Young Men's Christian Association and a trustee of the Green Street Methodist Episcopal Church. As a fraternalist he belongs to the Masons and the junior Order of United Mechanics.