ARTHUR B. CLARKE,
President of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works Company, of Richmond,
was born in that city, on December 29, 1854. In that city,
November 17, 1885, he married Lelia T. Berry, who was born in Richmond.
They have one daughter, Teresa Louise. The father of Mr.
Clarke is Augustus B. Clarke, of Richmond, born in 1818, the son of
John Salle Clarke, who was an officer of the Revolutionary army, and
descendent from French Huguenot ancestors who settled in Virginia in
colonial days. His mother, born in Henrico county in 1824, is Emma
Bullington Clarke, the daughter of Jesse F. Keesee, sheriff of Henrico
county before the war, since collector of State taxes for the city of
Richmond. The wife of Mr. Clarke is a daughter of David H. and
Martha A. (Hill) Berry, now of Richmond. Her mother was born in
Richmond, her father in Chesterfield county, Virginia. He has been
living in Richmond for fifty years, and has been superintendent of the
Gallego flour mills for over forty years.
Arthur B. Clarke was educated in Richmond, at the school of Thos.
H. Norwood in the old St. John Churchyard, and the University school
of John M. Strother. He was clerk in a coal office in 1869, and since
1872 has been with the company of which he is now president. Himself
and wife are members of the First Baptist church, Richmond.
