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Samuel Peck Clark
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Grain merchant.
Born at Kingston, Ontario on 17 October 1859, he was engaged in railway contract work in the Dakotas for several years. On coming to Manitoba he went into the grain business. He later formed a partnership in the Northern Elevator Company with George Reading Crowe and Nicholas Bawlf, with himself as Secretary later rising to President.
In 1904, along with other grain merchants Alexander Reid, John Love, William Henry McWilliams, and William Wallace McMillan, he formed the North-West Grain Dealers’ Association. He was one of the founders of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and a founding shareholder in the Beaver Lumber Company (1906). In 1910, he went into partnership with William Martin in the grain brokerage firm previously known as O’Brien and Martin.
In April 1902, he married Mae McCullough (1878-1930) of Ottawa, Ontario. They had no children. He was a member and President of the St. Charles Country Club (1911) and Assiniboine Curling Club (1902-1903).
After a long illness, he died at his Winnipeg residence, 46 Osborne Street, on 15 December 1924 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Pioneer grain dealer, Sam P. Clark, is dead,” newspaper clipping dated 17 December 1924. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]
“Veteran grain man of west called by death,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 December 1924, page 1.
“Mrs. S. P. Clark dies suddenly at Ottawa home,” Winnipeg Tribune, 17 April 1930, page 3.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 March 2026
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