The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 832 

GEORGE W. CLARK.

George W. Clark, who since 1912 has been connected with the plumbing and heating
business in Yakima, his interests being organized under the name of the Modern
Plumbing & Heating Company, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 20th
of February, 1872, a son of George W. and Emma J. (Snyder) Clark, who in 1877
removed westward to Kansas. The father, a plasterer by trade, had taken up his
abode at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the '60s but returned to the Keystone state. He
was a veteran of the Civil war, having served throughout the period of
hostilities as a member of a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment. On leaving Kansas
the second time he came to Tacoma, Washington, about 1888 and the family joined
him in that city in 1890. Both he and his wife passed away there.

George W. Clark acquired his early education in the schools of Kansas and after
the removal to Tacoma learned the plumping business in that city. He started
business on his own account in 1902 under the name of the Modern Plumbing &
Heating Company, which he organized in Tacoma, there conducting business for a
decade. In 1912, however, he removed to Yakima and opened a plumbing
establishment at No. 128 North First street, where he conducts a general line
of plumbing and heating. His business has steadily grown to gratifying
proportions and it is recognized that in point of skill, as well as of
enterprise. He is one of the leading plumbers of this section of the state.

Mr. Clark is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He also has
membership with the Commercial Club and with the Yakima Valley Business Men's
Association. His has been an active and useful life and not a little of his
success is attributable to the fact that he has always continued in the field of
activity in which he is now engaged. Thoroughness has characterized everything
that he has undertaken and he has executed some most difficult and important
contracts, so that he is now regarded as one of the foremost representatives of
industrial activity in Yakima.

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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.