Patsy Clark Family part 7.2
1911 - 1919
1911
Patrick Clark 1911 1025 Old Nat Bank Bldg
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| Patrick Clark 1911 1025 Old Nat Bank Bldg 1911 Spokane City Directory |
patrick f clark 1911 rhea patrick john
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| patrick f clark 1911 rhea patrick john 1911 Spokane City Directory |
1912
Patrick Clark 1912 216 Old Nat Bank Bldg
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| Patrick Clark 1912 216 Old Nat Bank Bldg 1912 Spokane City Directory |
patrick clark 1912 patrick rhea john
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| patrick clark 1912 patrick rhea john 1912 Spokane City Directory |
1915
17 March 1915
Patrick Clark will visit Mrs Clark's sister, Mrs Marcus Daly
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| (The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, 1915) |
Mrs. Marcus Daly of New York, a sister of Mrs. Clark, has taken a house on Figueroa street for two or three months, and will be specially honored, as will Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Clark, Misses Rhea and Katherine Clark, their daughters, and Miss Katherine Clark, a niece, the latter of Spokane. All these friends formerly lived in Montana, where they formed an intimate circle.
The Patrick Clarks, who are making their headquarters at the Maryland, have gone to the San Diego exposition, but will return on Friday.
Initially, I thought Mary Stack Clark's sister married Marcus Daly, but I have accounted for her sister's marriage. So, this must be Mrs. J. Ross Clark's sister. There are too many Clark's in these two paragraphs.
Patsy Clark died
There is quite a lot of information on his Find a Grave memorial page. For instance, we find his birth and death dates, and his burial at Fairmount Memorial Park. We find photos of his mansion, and his mausoleum, as well as an obituary from a newspaper. We can also see the names of his wife, and two of his children, John Francis Clark, and Rhea C Clark Amsden (Lewis, 2011).
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| Patsy Clark Mausoleum (Pettit, 2016) |
Patsy was 64 years old when he died of a heart attack. He was first laid to rest in his brother James' mausoleum, until his own $16,000 mausoleum was built right next to it, and he was moved there (Pettit, 2016).
Mary Clark stayed in the mansion for another 11 years untill she died in 1926 (Clouse, 2019), (Boggs, 2004), continuing his philanthropy and charitable gifts. We should be able to cover this in the next post. I hope.
7 June 1915
Patsy Clark Obituary
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| Patsy Clark 1915 Obituary The Oregon Daily Journal, 1915 |
This article says Patsy Clark died of apoplexy, which is another name for Heart Attack.
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The Boston Globe, 1915
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Patrick F Clark 1915, Patrick W, John
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| Patrick F Clark 1915, Patrick W, John
1915 Spokane City Directory
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8 June 1915
This Day in History by Jim Kershner, Spkesman-Review
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| (Kershner, 2015) |
From our archives, 100 years ago
Spokane was mourning the death of mining magnate Patrick Clark, better known as Patsy Clark.
His name remains familiar to today's Spokane residents as the owner of Patsy Clark's Mansion, 2208 W. Second Ave. in Browne's Addition.
Clark died of an apparent heart attack at his mansion. His obituary said he was born in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day in 1850. He came to the U.S. at age 20 and found work in the mines of Virginia City, Nevada, and Ophir, Utah. His "industry and thrift" -- in short supply in mining towns at the time -- attracted the attention of mining tycoon Marcus Daly, and before long Clark was superintendent at Ophir. Then he went to Butte and became the foreman of Daly's Alice Mine. He later was put in charge of the Moulton and Anaconda mines. He also had an interest in the Bullwhacker Mine.
He came to Spokane in 1887 to open the Poorman Mine in the Coeur d'Alene district. He spent the rest of his life in Spokane, "extending his interests and developing new mining properties" throughout the region.
Clark had been afflicted with heart troubles, but doctors had hoped that his "rugged constitution, acquired by strenuous labor in early mining days," would allow him to shake it off. However, an attack of the grippe, or flu, proved to be "a dangerous complication."
His heart condition we don't really know about. It could be an arrythmia like Atrial Fibrillation, or it could be Congestive Heart Failure. Regardless, getting the grippe (which is influenza, according to the online medical dictionary (Youngson, 2004, 2005)) was the last straw. Any time someone dies of an infection, he dies of sepsis, according to Sepsis.org. Patsy Clark died of sepsis.
16 June 1915
Nephew Patrick Parnell Clark (son of brother James Clark) married Nadine F. Dudley
22 June 1915
No Will was left by Patrick Clark
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| Spokane Chronicle, Spokane Washington, 1915 |
Letters of administration in the estate of the late Patrick Clark were asked in superior court late Monday afternoon by the widow, Mary R. Clark, who filed a petition declaring that search for a will had failed to reveal the existence of such a document.
The estate is valued at $400,000, the remainder of the property having been distributed among the members of the family prior to Mr. Clark's death, according to Attorney R.W. Nuzum, who filed the petition.
Besides the widow, the heirs are Ella Clark Richards, Rhea Clark and Katherine Clark, daughters, and P.W. Clark, John F. Clark and James B. Clark, sons. A hearing on the petition will be held July 2.
29 August 1915
Battle of Big Hole 1915 Commemoration
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| The Butte Miner, Butte Montana, 1915 |
Yeah, this one is a long one. The whole subject is highly interesting, and we will get to it in a separate post.
15 September 1915
Patrick Clark 1915 left an estate valued at a lot
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| The Spokesman-Review, Spokane Washington, 1915 |
Clark Estate is $424,841
Inventory Filed by Widow, Who Is Executrix of Will
Patrick Clark left an estate valued at #424,831, according to an inventory filed in the superior court yesterday by the widow, Mary R. Clark, executrix of the will
The inventory and supplementary inventory filed yesterday shows that Mr. Clark held notes against the firm of Clark Brothers & Klein for $325,380. The mining stock includes 15,739 shares of Standard Silver-Lead Mining Company, and 128,450 shares of Butte-Bullwhacker Copper company. The personal property is valued at $500.
Mr. Clark had cash on hand ammounting to $11,554 at the time of his death.
19 October 1915
Patsy Clark 1915 Estate in Butte Montana
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| The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda Montana, 1915 |
The Patsy Clark Estate Up
Letters of administration for the Patsy Clark estate were issued yesterday to Geoffrey Lavell and a nominal bond accepted. The estate in Butte consists mainly of a few mining claims. The balance of the estate was probated in Spokane, where Mr. Clark made his home. Mr. Clark was best known in Butte as the promoter of the Bullwhacker mine.
1918
12 September 1918
Son Patrick W. Clark Draft Card
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Patsy's son Patrick 1918 Draft Card
Registration State: WashingtonRegistration County: Spokane Roll: 1992105; Draft Board: 3 found on Ancestry.com |
1918 Influenza Epidemic
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| newspapers.com |
This is the Spanish Flu epidemic which killed more people than World War I which had just ended. Many who survived the war, perished of the flu.
1918 Spokane City Directory
Mary Clark 1918 Patrick James B, John F,
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| 1918 Spokane City Directory |
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Resources
Boggs, A. (2004, July 15). Patsy Clark's looks like a million. Retrieved December 13, 2019, from SpokesmanReview.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20071029212221/http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=15707
Lewis, T. (2011, October 13). Patrick Francis “Patsy” Clark. (F. A. 78349263, Editor) Retrieved December 16, 2019, from Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78349263
Pettit, S. (2016, August 10). Landmarks: Patsy Clark, brother close in life and death. The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Retrieved January 2020, from https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/aug/10/landmarks-patsy-clark-brother-close-in-life-and-de/
The Boston Globe . (1915, June 8). Patrick Clark 1915 death notice, heart failure. Retrieved December 2019, from newspapers.com: newspapers.com
The Boston Globe. (1915, June 8). Patrick_Clark_1915_death_notice__heart_failure. Boston, Massachusetts. Retrieved December 2019, from newspapers.com
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. (1915, March 17). Patrick Clark 1915 will visit Mrs Clark's sister, Mrs Marcus Daly. Retrieved January 2020, from Newspapers.com: newspapers.com
The Oregon Daily Journal, Portland Oregon. (1915, June 7). Patrick "Patsy" Clark 1915 obituary. Retrieved February 2020, from Newspapers.com: newspapers.com
The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review. (1910, October 29). Patrick Clark 1910 Moves Office, Traders Block, Old National Bank Building, Ziegler Block. Spokane, Washington, USA. Retrieved December 2019, from newspapers.com
Youngson, R. M. (2004, 2005). Collins Dictionary of Medicine, Grippe. Retrieved February 8, 2020, from Free Dictionary Online: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/grippe
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