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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
November 26, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 329
Kanawha
WALTER E. CLARK. The enviable success of The Charles-
ton Daily Mail both as a newspaper and a business institu-
tion is credited to its proprietor and editor, Walter E. Clark.
Mr. Clark has been a newspaper man all his life, and he
brought to this West Virginia journal an exceptional range
of experience.
Mr. Clark was born at Ashford, Connecticut, January 7
1869, son of Oren Andrus and Jeannette (Jones) Clark.
He graduated from the Connecticut Normal School at New
Britain in 1887, and from the Wesleyan University of Mid-
dletown, Connecticut, with the Ph. B. degree, in 1895.
>From a local sphere of experience in journalism in his
native state Mr. Clark went in 1895 to Washington, where
for a year he was telegraph editor on the Washington
Times. For more than a dozen years he was Washington
correspondent for a number of leading newspapers, includ-
ing the New York Commercial Advertiser in 1897; was as-
sistant to the Washington correspondent of the New York
Sun from 1897 to 1909; was Washington correspondent for
the Seattle Post-Intelligeneer from 1900 to 1909; and of
the New York Commercial and Toronto Globe from 1904
to 1909.
In 1909 Mr. Clark was called from the busy routine of a
newspaper man to the important post of governor of Alaska
Territory. He served in that office until 1913, and soon after
his return to the United States in 1914 he acquired The
Charleston Daily Mail.
Mr. Clark is a republican, a member of the Congrega-
tional Church, is affiliated with the Chi Psi college frater-
nity, and was editor of its magazine during his early career
at Washington. He has membership in the Metropolitan
and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, the Arctic Club of
Seattle and the Edgewood Country Club of Charleston.
June 15, 1898, at New York, he married Lucy Harrison
Norvell, daughter of Captain Edward Norvell of Lynchburg,
Virginia.
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