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Edward Walter Clark III

American banker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5345793 ↗
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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 Harvard University in 1907; the following year, he won golf's Presidents Cup (Harvard). During World War I, he served overseas with the Army Signal Corps.

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 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, founded by a maternal great-grandfather.

Clark died on November 16, 1939, in Chestnut Hill Hospital after a brief illness.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1939, 1907, 1920—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Edward, Walter and Clark can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Edward Walter Clark III” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.