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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
EDWARD CLARK. 
1822-1902. 
[Read before the Society, May 23, 1903.] 
Edward Clark was born in Philadelphia August 15, 1822, 
and died in Washington January 6, 1902. Being an old 
friend and in sympathy with the thought and labors of the 
founders of the Philosophical Society, he was elected to its 
membership February 24,1877, and continued therein until 
his death, but rarely, if at all, attended its meetings, and 
then only in the earlier years. 
He was descended from a notable ancestry beginning in 
Lancashire, England, thence passing to Ireland, where his 
grandfather was born, in Dublin, came in his manhood to 
America, and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 
James, the father of Edward Clark, was an architect in 
Philadelphia. His uncle Thomas entered the army, served 
in the war of 1812, and later was a captain in the Corps of 
Engineers, but resigned soon after the war and devoted the 
remainder of his life to study and authorship, largely in the 
Greek and Latin classics. His works are to be found in the 
Library of Congress. 
Edward’s mother was Mary Cottman. His education 
was obtained in the public schools and academies of Phila¬ 
delphia, but chiefly under the direction of his uncle Thomas. 
His father instructed him in free-hand drawing, and at an 
early age he entered the office of the architect Thomas U. 
Walter in Philadelphia, where he acquired training in 
architecture and experience in buildings on which Mr. 
Walter was engaged, among them that for Girard College. 
Later he worked on Mr. Walter’s competitive designs for 
the extension of the United States Capitol, and when these 
were finally successful and accepted by President Fillmore, 
and Mr. Walter received the appointment of Architect of 
