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James Oscar Max ClarkA member of the Clark family in Scotland, who kept closely in touch with operations at the Newark plant of The Clark Thread Company was James Oscar Max Clark, son of Robert M. Clark, of Camphill, Paisley, Scotland. From 1912 to 1930, Mr. Clark made periodical visits to this country, and displayed a comprehensive knowledge of the business. In addition to an inspection of the several factories, he made extensive market surveys, which included visits to depots and customers, and conferences with sales personnel. He keenly sensed the need of the organization to keep up-to-date by means of new products, and had a strong influence in sponsoring many new articles for crochet and embroidery, which were put on the market at that period. They included Clark's O.N.T. Package Outfits, which were large envelopes containing stamped materials, together with all the crochet and embroidery cottons necessary to complete them. While nearly all other new products were marketed successfully, this venture in packaged stamped goods proved a failure because of the fluctuations in the prices of cotton textiles. In 1929, Mr. Clark was elected Chairman of the Board of J. & P. Coats, Limited, Glasgow, Scotland, being the first member of the Clark family to be thus recognized and honored. He never lived in the United States, and although he retired to private life in 1947, he has continued to be deeply interested in the business which he was actively engaged for almost fifty years. |
William ClarkWilliam Clark, son of John Clark, of the great firm of James & John Clark, cotton-thread manufacturers, and brother of the late George A. Clark, elsewhere mentioned in this volume, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1841. After receiving a good academic education in the grammar-school of his native town, he entered the famous establishment which had been founded by his ancestors, for the purpose of acquiring a practical knowledge of all the details of every department of the business in which he expected, at the proper time, to become an active and interested manager. This knowledge having been fully obtained, he accompanied his brother, Mr. George A. Clark, in 1860, to the United States, where already a general agency of the home firm had been established with its headquarters in New York. Here he rendered assistance to his brother in his manifold operations, and finally, in 1864, removed with him to Newark, N.J., where a branch of the Paisley works was established upon a very small scale. This branch was, however, greatly extended at a subsequent period, and in 1866, Mr. Clark became associated with his brother as a partner. The enterprise proved to be highly successful, and after the admission of Mr. Clark as a partner the works were from year to year extended.
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