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Charles S. Clark founded Wakeman's
biggest business in 1878 when he was
eighteen years old. With five dollars he
bought two kinds of seed corn. With
the fifteen cents left over he bought
stamps to solicit mail orders. He
received two mail orders for four
bushels of seed, making eight dollars.
Four years later he sold $42,409 worth
of corn seed. Between 1925 and 1935
he sold one fifth of all seed corn sold in
the United States.

C. S. Clark

Wakeman Milling and Elevator Co.

Clark's Seed House. Now owned by W. B. French