Finding Guide
TITLE: Henry Austin Clark Sr. papers
CREATOR: Clark, Henry Austin Sr. 1865-1951
INCLUSIVE DATES: 1695-1951
BULK DATES: 1850-1940
QUANTITY: 10.4 linear feet and 18 boxes
LANGUAGE: The materials are in English
ABSTRACT
Henry Austin Clark Sr. papers include manuscripts, Colonial deeds, wills, land surveys, broadsides, diaries, family correspondence, genealogical records, personal business records, family photographs and studio portraits.
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Mr. Henry Austin Clark Sr. 1865-1951 was born at 28 University Place, NY, and resided in New York City, Flushing, and Long Island. He was one of the earliest stockholders of Hawaiian Steamship Company, Vice President and director of Cuban-American Sugar Company, director of the Chaparra Sugar Company, Colonial Sugar Company and the National Sugar Refining Company. Henry Austin Clark, Sr. was husband of Marguerite Dixon Clark (Smith College 1906), and father of Elizabeth Dixon Clark Nicholas and Henry Austin Clark Jr, noted car collector and museum owner.
Henry Austin Clark Sr. was the son of Dr. Frederick Hamilton Clark, New York City dental surgeon and Elizabeth Stebbins (Waterbury) Clark. Henry Austin Clark Sr. traces his Stebbins family line from Benoni Stebbins (1655–1704), killed at the Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. His son, Benjamin Stebbins (1692-1780) was an early settler of Ridgefield, Connecticut and married to Sarah Mead (1695–1774). The 1777 Battle of Ridgefield took place within the bounds of their homestead. To their son, Joseph Stebbins (1733–1794) and wife, Joanna Smith (1743–1793) and the children, John Stebbins (1783–1834), Betsy Stebbins Hawley (1785–1878), William Stebbins (1786–1873), Ruth Stebbins (1789–1851), Joanna Stebbins (1793–1866), Samuel S Stebbins 1796-1852, Sarah Stebbins (1798–1892), Cecilia Stebbins Waterbury (1802–1871), Mary Emma Stebbins Dauchy (1805–1860) and to their grandchildren John Wilson Stebbins (1807–1837), Charles Largin Stebbins (1809–1836), Henry G. Stebbins (1811–1881), Mary Garland (1813–1905), Emma Stebbins (1815–1882), Angeline Fleming (1818–1896), William Stebbins (1820), and Caroline Tilton (1828–1901). Mary Hawley Hatch (1817–1899), Sarah Maria Stebbins Merrill (1812–1870), Emma Louisa Bowne (1814), William Stebbins (1817), James Jordan Stebbins (1821–1848), Alfred Stebbins (1825–1903), Adelaide Huntington (1827–1856), Elizabeth Waterbury Clark (1827–1913), Henry Waterbury (1831–1891).
The Clark family line traces lineage to the original settlers of Old Saybrook, CT. John Clark (1612-1674), John Clark Jr. (1630-1677), Maj John Clark (1655-1735), Nathaniel Clark (1694-1772), Christopher Clark (1736-1820), Christopher Clark Jr (1782-1843), Roxanna Snow (1784–1808) wife, mother of Austin Griswold Clark (1804–1880), Frederick Hamilton Clark (1806–1883), Roxanna Clark Wheeler (1808–1856), wife of Allen Wheeler, (1802–1863), Henry Augustus Wheeler (1833–1896) Frederick Wheeler (1838–1860), Emma Wheeler (1843), Helen Roxana Wheeler (1846–1929).
Henry Austin Clark Sr. family tree: Clark-Stebbins tree, Ancestry.com http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/29324290/family
Clark-Stebbins tree: Flickr.com/HACLibrary https://www.flickr.com/photos/haclibrary/
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
COPYRIGHT: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
SCOPE AND ARRANGEMENT
Series 1. Colonial Connecticut Papers 1685-1850
Series 2. Stebbins Family papers 1795-1913
Series 3. Dixon-Clark family photographs 1890-1948
Series 4. Henry A. Clark Sr. papers 1880-1951
Series 5. Genealogy records
CONTAINER LIST
Box 01 Colonial CT papers
Box 02 Oversized papers
Box 03 Stebbins papers
Box 04 Papers, deeds
Box 05 Daguerreotypes
Box 06 CDV, Cabinet, Calling Cards
Box 07 EMD Clark letters, postcards, poetry
Box 08 Clark family photographs and ephemera
Box 09 Clark artifacts, Smith College Alumnae
Box 10 Clark studio photos, news clippings
Box 11 Clark family correspondence
Box 12 Frederick H. Clark estate records
Box 13 Bank Statements
Box 14 Trustee accounting
Box 15 Cuban-American Sugar records
Box 16 C-AS Co. merger, business records
Box 17 Family plot records, church records
Box 18 Genealogy, books, correspondence
PROCESSING INFORMATION:
Collection processed 2014 by e-Archives, Project Archivist, Caroline Welling Van Deusen, scanning and inventory completed 2013, distribution to permanent repositories completed in 2015, permalinks updates in 2016-2017
Details about the collection may be found by clicking on the links on this page or related websites: http://www.Flickr.com/photos/haclibrary
Family collection of Marguerite Dixon Clark, (Mrs. Henry Austin Clark Sr.)
Collection of renowned car collector and automobile museum owner, Henry Austin Clark Jr.