CLARK, HORACE F. 



in the New York it Harlem Railroad, then 

 not a very profitable enterprise, from which 

 time dated his active participation in railroad 

 operations, lie took stock atso in numerous 

 other roads, in the management of which ho 

 quickly obtained an important influence, and 

 was, perhajM, at his death, in control, directly 

 and indirectly, of as many miles of rail as any 

 otber railro.ul financier. He was President 

 of the Lake Shore, Michigan Southern 02 

 Northern Indiana Railroad, to which he was 

 elected upon the consolidation, a few years 

 since, of the various connecting lines forming 

 this ronte from Buffalo to Chicago, and of the 

 I'nion Paciiic lioilroad, besides beinu' director 

 in the New York Central & Hudson River 

 Railroad, the New York & Harlem, the 

 New Haven, Hartford & Springfield, tho 



-< Line, the Chicago & Xorth western, 

 and holding a valuable interest in various 

 other lines. He was also President of tho 

 Union Trust Company of this city, an active 

 manager of the Western Union Telegraph 

 Company, and other corporations. His in- 

 fluence on the Stock Exchange may be in- 

 ferred from the fact that, as the rumors of his 

 illness were favorable or unfavorable, the 

 most active stocks on the list, known as the 



irk stocks " and consisting of Lake Shore, 

 Northwestern, Union Pacific, etc., rose or fell. 

 At the close of his congressional career 

 Mr. fl.irk retired from active participation in 

 political affairs, though still retaining an in- 

 terest in municipal and national matters, and 

 the cares of his business quickly drew him 

 away from political lite altogether. When, 

 however, the combined attack was made on 

 the Tweed Ring, two years ago, he came for- 

 ward once more, even to the neglect of his 

 private business, and rendered powerful as- 

 sistance to Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, and Mr. 

 Aagu*tui Schell, and others, whom he aided 

 greatly in breaking the political power of tho 

 Ring, driving Twoed and his friends out of 

 Tammany Hall, and from that time continued 

 to be an active member of the General Com- 

 mittee, and recently a Sachem of that or- 

 der. In appearance, Mr. Clark was a man 

 of medium height, rather compact in btiiM, 

 with a broad and prominent forehead, clear, 

 peaetratinx eye, firmly-set month, and hair 

 freely tinged with (tray. He was pleasant in 

 address and atfablf in manners. Naturally of 

 a social disposition, he was eminently agree- 

 able to all with whom he came in contact, 

 though the eogroneing cares of his vast busi- 

 ness operation* prevented hi* mingling much 

 ia society. Attachment* with him were strong 

 and permanent. Liberal by nature, and re- 

 tiring ia Uste, he gave for the sake of giving 

 and ever responded freely to charitable 

 bat always without ostentation, and frequently 

 *ea with an injunction to m-crn-y. Ho was 

 man of indomitable energy, and. being pos- 

 seewl of a very strong con*titntion. which al- 

 lowed him to give full play to his powers, was 



CLARK, LEWIS G. 



an exceedingly hard worker, attending to his 

 affairs personally, which, being so vast, de- 

 manded his constant and prolonged attention 

 day after day, so that he really had few hours 

 of rest. But this tremendous strain 

 great inroads even upon so powerful an or- 

 ganization as his, and it was felt that, like many 

 others, he really tell a victim to overwork. He 

 received, in 1863, the degree of Doctor of Laws 

 from his alma mater. He married, in 1848, a 

 daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, who sur- 

 vives him. His death was the consequence of 

 an attack of rheumatism of the heart, brought 

 on probably by the intense confinement to 

 business. 



CLARK, LEWIS GATLOBD, an American 

 magazinist and man of letters, born in Otisco, 

 Onondoga, X. Y., in 1810; died at Piemiout- 

 on-tho- Hudson, November 8, 1873. Both 

 Lewis and his twin-brollier Willis Gnylonl 

 Clark (died June 12, 1841) were educated by 

 their ftither, a Revolutionary soldier, and a 

 man of fine culture and attainments. At tho 

 age of twenty-four tho brothers undertook tho 

 editorship and general management of tho 

 Kni-ktrbocltr magazine, which had been 

 founded two years before by Charles Fenno 

 Hoffman. For some yours before the death of 

 Willis, Lewis conducted the magazine alone, 

 his brother having removed to Philadelphia, 

 and he continued its sole editor until the clnso 

 of 1859, when it died from tho want of busi- 

 ness ability in its financial management. The 

 Knickerbocker was during the greater ]>nrt 

 of this period the ablest of tho American 

 monthly magazines, and the first to bring to 

 light the essays of nascent genius. A largo 

 number of our best American writers, living 

 and dead, made their debut in its pages. There 

 was, of course, a considerable quantity of chaff 

 with tho wheat, but some of those whose first 

 beginnings were weak developed ere long 

 abilities of a high order. Mr. Clark was a 

 genial, kindly editor, and sometimes suffered 

 platitudes to pass from unwillingness to wound 

 a sensitive spirit. But the magazine was 

 really the parentof much that is best in quality 

 in our later and abler periodicals. Its in- 

 fluence on American literature was wholi 

 and inspiring, and it led the way to a higher 

 standard of magadae-writing. Mr. ( 

 tboiiirh an nblo and brilliant writi-r, confined 

 himself mainly to the " Editor's Table," and 

 "Gossip with Readers and Correspondents," 

 and for years had a burlesque on the small 

 country newspaper as a part of these depart- 

 ments, with the title of The. Bunkum /"/</- 

 tlaff, edited by Wogstaff. This was the \< 

 for many humorous hits at his contemporaries, 

 though these wore always devoid of asperity 

 or bitterness. He published n volume of bis 

 brother's literary remains in 1844, with a me- 

 moir, and a collection of his poems in i 

 " The Knickerbocker Sketches" piil>li>brd 

 about 1850, though edited ami selected by 

 Lewis Gaylord Clark, contained little or notli- 



