The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1029 

A. L. CLARK.

With marked ability in the line of his chosen vocation, A. L. Clark has been
connected with some of the most important building, projects of the northwest,
contributing in substantial measure to the development of this section of the
country. He is the manager for the Yakima Paving Company at Yakima and brings to
his important duties in this connection thorough training and broad experience,
although he is still a young man.

Mr. Clark was born in Lincoln. Nebraska. On the 1st of January, 1884, a son of
Byron T. and Ella (Dye) Clark, who removed to Tacoma in the year 1905. The
father was engaged in the grain business and became one of the representative
merchants in that field in his adopted city but is now living retired.

A. L. Clark acquired a public school education and in his youthful days took up
the occupation of farming, early becoming familiar with the best methods of
tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He afterward turned his attention,
however, to construction work in Tacoma and for ten years was connected with
the Washington Paving Company, which .vas organized in Tacoma. The Yakima office
was established in 1915 in the Wilson building and in 1918 was removed to the
Miller building. Mr. Clark then severed his connection with the Washington
Paving Company and organized the Yakima Paving Company, of which he is now
manager. He has organized the A. L. Clark Company, which operates in the Yakima
valley.

On the 8th of April, 1908, Mr. Clark was married to Miss Ethel Savage and they
have an interesting little daughter, Frances Ellen. Politically Mr. Clark is a
republican, having supported the party since reaching voting age, but is not an
office seeker. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons. He is recognized as
a man of genuine worth and marked ability and Yakima numbers him among her
valued and representative citizens.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.