Information Regarding Day, Clark & Company

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SAMUEL CLARK

The city of Newark, New Jersey, is apparently the center of manufacturing interests of great importance, and prominent among these is the Day-Clark Company, manufacturing jewelers, of which Samuel Clark, whose name heads this sketch, is the able president and leading spirit. In connection with this concern he has displayed remarkable executive ability, combined with thorough practical knowledge for a long time, and has been closely identified with a variety of other business interests to their general advantage.

(I) John Clark, great-great-grandfather of the Samuel Clark mentioned above, served as a private during the Revolutionary War.

(II) Samuel, son of John Clark, was a man of influence in his day. He served as justice of the peace, and was highly respected as an elder in the Presbyterian church. He had children: Daniel, Eunice, David, Stephen, Polly, Libbie, Abraham and Martha.

(III) Daniel, son of Samuel Clark, was born in New Providence, New Jersey, where he married Sally Wilcox. Children: William, Levy, Samuel, David, Stephen, Jane, Eliza, Sarah and Mary.

(IV) Samuel, son of Daniel and Sally (Wilcox) Clark, was born in New Providence, New Jersey, October 30, 1809, and received as good an education as was generally accorded a farmer's son in that section and at that time. He became a school teacher in his native town and served as a tax collector there about 1836. After studying at the Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky, he was graduated from that institution in 1842. Having decided that a commercial line of business was more to his taste than a professional life, he engaged in the paint and varnish business in Newark, New Jersey, in 1849, and was identified with it until 1857. He was a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church, and his political affiliations were first with the Whig party, to which he adhered until the birth of the Republican party, when he joined its ranks. He married Mary, daughter of David and Huldah (Bonnell) Noe, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Ayres) Noe, and of Nathaniel Bonnell, who served as captain during the Revolutionary War. John Noe, born in 1757, died 1828, came from Wood- bridge and resided at Sterling Valley; he served as a private in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Clark and his wife had children: Arthur Perry, born May 22, 1844; Samuel, see forward; Jennie Noe, born September 9, 1849, and Huldah Noe, born June 11, 1851.

(V) Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary (Noe) Clark, was born at Summit, New Jersey, September 9, 1846, and was about two years of age when his parents removed to Newark, so that practically his whole life has been spent in the latter city. At a suitable age he was sent to the public schools, and was graduated from the Third Ward Grammar School in 1858. He was apprenticed to learn the jewelers' trade as it was taught at that time — refining, alloying, designing, making, finishing, etc. — called in the present day (1913) the old-line apprenticeship, which, in plain words, means learning the trade practically in every detail from the initial stages, and not in specialized branches as is done in the present day. Prior to learning this trade, Mr. Clark had held two positions — in 1858 with a Mr. Welsh, an architect, and in 1859, as clerk with Henry Price, an optician. His other positions were all connected with the jewelry trade, and were as follows: Roswell Davis, jewelry store, 1860; Enos Richardson & Company, manufacturing jewelers, 1861; J. D. & C. L. Nesler, until 1868; Stein & Redway, and Ailing Brothers, as journeyman jeweler until 1876. In this year the present business was organized under the firm name of Day & Clark, Mr. Clark having associated himself with Mr. Day in a business partnership. The business was conducted in a practical and successful manner, the high standard of the goods they manufactured producing a steady and consistent increase in the annual output. From time to time it was found imperative to increase their working capacity in every direction, and, in 1908, the firm was incorporated under the laws of the state of New Jersey as the Day-Clark Company, with Samuel Clark as president; Franklin Day, vice- president; Walter S. Campbell, secretary; Irving G. Day, treasurer. From the time of its organization until the present time this company has made a specialty of manufacturing fourteen-carat jewelry, and have gained a wide- spread reputation for the quality of their goods. Mr. Clark is also president of the Bath Portland Cement Company, which is the only company in that line of business that has its headquarters in Newark. He is vice-president of the Manufacturing Jewelers' Association, of Newark. He has no official connection with any bank, but has had an account at the Merchants' National Bank for the past thirty-five years. His political affiliations are with the Progressive Republican party, but he has never held public position. He is a member of the board of managers of the Roseville Athletic Association, president of the Artists' Club of Newark, member of the Sons of Temperance of New Jersey, second vice-president of the Bureau of Associated Charities, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He and his family are members of the South Park Presbyterian Church, in which he serves as elder and clerk.

Mr. Clark married in Newark, March 16, 1886, Jennie Finley Delano, born in Newark, November 23, 1859. Mrs. Clark is a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of Mayflower fame, through the marriage of their daughter, Mary, to Dr. Thomas Delano, a son of Philip Delano, who came to this country in the ship, "Fortune," in 1621. Mrs. Clark, who is a Daughter of the American Revolution, and also a Dame, is also a lineal descendant of Robert Treat, Jasper Crane and Samuel Swain, who were among the founders of the city of Newark. The father of Mrs. Clark, Albert Delano, was secretary of the Rosendale Lime and Cement Company. He held no public office, but served three years during the Civil War as hospital steward for the Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Mr. Delano married Margaret Anton Finley, and had children: Jennie Finley, mentioned above; Frank Elmer and Bertie. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have had children: 1. Wilson Delano, born December 29, 1886. Educated in the public schools of Newark, he was graduated from the Barringer High School, and then became a student at Cornell University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1909. The following year he entered the business of which his father is the president. He married, January 21, 1912, Frances Bill, of Eureka, California, who was graduated from Cornell University in 1910. They have a child, John Delano, born November 23, 1912. 2. Dorothy Noe, born October 27, 1889, educated in the city public schools, like her brother, and was graduated from Wellesley College in 1911. She is the secretary of the Junior Department of the Young Women's Christian Association of Newark. 3. Samuel Albert, born June 4, 1892. Attended the public schools of Newark and the Newark Academy, and was graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in 1911. He holds the position of stone expert in the Day-Clark Company.

Samuel Clark is a man of serious aims, and his artistic taste and skill has enabled the firm of which he is the official head to weather many storms to which other firms succumbed. He is a man of broad and liberal ideas, and his stern integrity has been recognized in the business world. He com- bines an extraordinary genius for administration with indomitable perseverance, and his self-reliance has never failed him. Genial, yet dignified, in his manner, he has won the affection as well as the respect of those with whom he has relations in the business and the social world.

Source: A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey - 1913

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Day, Clark & Company - New York - 1903

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1905

'BARETTES'

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NEWARK

A Christmas party was enjoyed by the office staff of Day, Clark & Co. last Friday evening in the office, 449 Washington St. A gaily decorated Yule tree, with myriad colored incandescent lights, was the center of attraction and a festive time was enjoyed for an hour after the close of the day’s business. Among those present were Irving G. Day, head of the firm; Miss Sophie Kranzlin, Miss Lillian Ritter, Miss Pfau, William Moser, and I. G. Day, Jr. The Day, Clark & Co. plant is one of those not closing down this week. J. P. Fagan is preparing for a western trip, to start about the middle of January, and A. L. Chapin will go to New England to call on the trade.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th December 1923

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Entry recorded in The Industrial Directory of New Jersey - 1901:

Day, Clark & Company, manufacturers of jewelry; employs 88 persons.

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1904

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DEATH OF SAMUEL CLARK

Veteran Newark, N. J., Jeweler Passes Away at His Home at Chatham, N. J.

Newark, N. J., July 14.—Funeral services were held at 3.30 o’clock last Thursday afternoon for Samuel Clark, a member of the jewelry manufacturing firm of Day, Clark & Co., Washington St., this city. The services were held at the First Presbyterian Church, New Providence. Burial was at New Providence.

Mr. Clark died at his home at Chatham, N. J., near Summit, where he was born 77 years ago. He had lived at Chatham for the past year. Besides his widow he is survived by three children, Wilson Clark, of San Francisco, and Samuel and Dorothy Clark, of Chatham.

Mr. Clark was a member of the Newark Museum Association, a former president of the Artists’ Club of Newark, a member of the board of directors of the Bureau of Associated Charities of Newark, an elder of the South Park Presbyterian Church, Newark, and a former president of the Roseville Athletic Club.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th July 1923

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Day, Clark & Co. - Newark, N.J. - 1914

'RONDELLE NECKLACES'

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1904

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Day, Clark & Co. - Newark, N.J. - 1914

'JULIET'

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Day, Clark & Co. - Newark, N.J. - 1914

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1901

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1902

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1907

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J. P. Fagan, of Day, Clark & Co., manufacturing jewelers of 449 Washington St., is starting this week on a trip to the southern and western territory. A. L. Chapin, of the same firm, is covering the eastern territory.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th December 1923

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1904

'VERMICILLA'

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1904

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1908

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Francis Gus Druding, 60 years old, who was well known in the Arcade, in this city, died at his home, 302 N. 7th St., last Thursday evening, of diabetes. The body was taken on Saturday night to the home of his sister, Mrs. George Sharpley, in Philadelphia. Funeral services were held there on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Weider, pastor of the Snyder Ave. Congregational Church, officiating. Interment was in the family plot in Fernwood Cemetery. Mr. Druding was born in Philadelphia. He was engaged in the china ana glass ware business there, and 32 years ago came to Newark, opening a jewelry store. Several years ago he sold out his business to accept a responsible position with Day, Clark & Co. He was married in Philadelphia in 1871, a year before he came to Newark, to Miss Anna C. Erve. who survives him.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st February 1905

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Day, Clark & Co. - New York - 1908

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