Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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G. WARD CLARK, 
 
W. B. WARD
 
WARD & CLARK
 
granite and stone contractors, East Fifth street, Los Angeles. This prosperous 
firm came to Los Angeles in 1885 and established their present business, on a 
small scale. Soon after they took in other partners who were only connected with 
the business about one year, when Messrs. Ward and Clark bought their interest, 
and since then have carried on the business. Their granite and stone quarries 
are located in San Bernardino County, at Riverside. The stone is of superior 
quality and is partly dressed there and partly in Los Angeles. Showing how the 
business has increased, we note that when they began they only furnished work 
for three men and now they employ from twenty-five to forty men. The granite for 
the new court-house is being furnished from their quarries. They have the 
contract for furnishing and setting the granite for the new postoffice, and have 
also furnished the granite for some of the heaviest buildings in the city and 
county. W. B. Ward, of the firm of Ward & Clark, is a native of the State of 
Maine, and was born June 19, 1859. He grew up and served an apprenticeship to 
his trade there, and worked at his calling in different parts of New England 
until he came to California in 1884. He remained in the northern part of the 
State one year and then came to Los Angeles. Since that time the firm, of which 
he is senior member, has been prominently identified with building interests 
here. Mr. Ward was married September 8, 1881, to Miss Hattie E. Ellis, a native 
of Maine. They have two children: Alva and Theresa. George W. Clark, of the 
above-named firm, was born in the State of Maine, September 6, 1860, son of 
Thomas Clark. He attended school during boyhood and served an apprenticeship to 
his trade in his native State. He worked at his trade in New England, Texas and 
Mexico, and came to the Pacific Coast in the spring of 1883, first going to 
Washington Territory. In the spring of 1885 be came to Los Angeles and became 
associated with his present partner, and since then has been successfully 
engaged in granite and stone business. Mr. Clark was united in marriage August 
2, 1887, to Miss Nellie C. Ward, a native of the State of Maine and daughter of 
Ira and Hannah (Goodwin) Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have one daughter, Ethel M.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 721
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler