Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-03
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EX-SENATOR CLARK
OF MONTANA DIES
VICTIM PNEUMONIA

New York, Mar. 2-William An
drews Clark, former United States
senator from Montana, died this eve
ming at his home here.
Death was due to pneumonia. Mr..
Clark had been ill a week.
William Andrews Clark was the
last of the three great Montana min
ing magnates - Heinze, DAILY and
Clark. Arriving in Hannach, Idaho,
in 1868, with IS capital after an over
land journey of 65 days in a prairie
schooner, he became forty years lat
er, multimillionaire and a United
States senator. He was born in Con-
nellsville, Pa, on Jan. s, 1889.
A school teacher in central Mis-
souri, when the gold rush lure6 him to
Colorado and then to Idaho, Clark's
services to that part of the territory
which later became the state. of Mon
tana-he helped to draft it's constitu-
tion-were recognized n few years
ago by the Society of Montana Pho
neers in the form of monument ito
commemorate, while he still is living,
his deeds which. have contributed in
major part to the development of the
great West"
ScIldlOE SldIh lOT years w dS d YELL
trail figure in the triangular indus
trial war between the Clark, Heinze
and Daily mining interests and around
this spectacular fight for supremacy
was woven much Of the history of
Montana. It led to battles between
great numbers of miners UNDER
ground occupied the courts Of Mon
tana almost to the exclusion Q other
litigations and at last established the
apex" principle as the mining law
of America. Subsequently the Heinze
and Daily interests were merged and
the conflict came to an end.
Clark's fortune was what might be
called comfortable" in 1872. He had
become interested in banking and
quartz mining in Butte and in that
year, when just 33 years old. pur-
chased an interest in the Original,
Colusa. Mountain Chief and Gam
BETA mines. Determined to know as
much as possible about the industry
he took a course at Columbia Univer-
sity in assaying and analysis as well
as other complex branches of mining.
During the Nez Perez Indian up
rising of 1878, Clark organized a bat
talon of volunteers and. as its major
helped to quell the trouble. He was
pr esident of the Constitutional con-
vcntions of Montana in 1884 and
I1sS9 and was State commissioners
from Montana to the New Orleans
Cotton Exposition in 1884. In 1891
Democrats of Montana first nominal
/! ed him for United States Senator an
he claimed the election but was de-
MED his seat. Eight years later he
was elected to the Upper House but
a factional contest was started IN
Washington and before the investi-
cation ended he resigned, informing
the Senate that he would submit his
case to the voters of Montana by
Immediately seeking reelection.
Winning on the first ballot in the
LEGISLATURE chosen On the sole issue
of "Clark or Anti Clark" he served
,, a full term and then declined to be
a candidate again.
A devotee of golf. which he learned
to play after his 50th year. Senator
Clark's other hobbies were art an
philanthropy. He owned large pic
ture gallery including six panels OF
Eaauvais tapestries illustrating the
nrincipal events in the life of Joan
If Arc. alone worth 100000.
One of his gifts to the city OF Butte
was a public park known as "Solum-
hia Gardens" a playground abound
ing in flowers. landscapes, picnic
groves. baseball park. a zoologicai
Collection and other recreation iea-
lures. Another was the Paul Clark
Taroe a refuge for poor and crippled
children, built in memory Of a son
who died in childhood. In Los An
ge1es. senator Clark built lit. the Mor Md5g
Owls in honor of his mother. In
New York he maintained a Kinder e, :.
garten School named for one OF ,i ms
other children who died early =, in lie !,
In March, 1909, Senator Clark mar
to Miss Kate L. Stauffer of Con-
r,fn M1ss Pa. They had six children n;
san Mateo. Calf; w. A. Clark, ,. Jss
of Butte, Mont. and Mrs. Charles
T,;nn and Mrs. DR.. Morris. both OF
New New York, were living in 1872 ds:
Mrs. Clark died Oct; 10, 1893 5,, ana
several years later Sen sena ae11e c lave
a i.o Andree and Huguette'
Irere born of this marriage.