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Hail Clark sole proprietor of the growing business.55 At 13 Clark had worked as a muletender
on the canal, and within six months he settled in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and turned to the
trade of carriage and harness-making. Clark moved to Saltsburg in 1849, where he soon after
earned the reputation as a skilled mechanic. The carriage trade attracted many proficient
craftsmen and their families to the borough. Between 1867 and 1883 Clark employed twenty
men to build and repair carriages, wagons, and buggies, as well as related tasks such as
trimming, painting, woodworking, and blacksmithing. In 1873 Clark attempted to expand the
enterprise-which produced 200 buggies annually, some shipped to Pittsburgh~by constructing
repositories in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Butler County. But by 1878 business had fallen off
sufficiently to reduce the staff to six men, and abandon both the latter outlets.
In its prime, Clark's reputation was that of producing "only the highest class of work." He owned the
"largest and most complete establishment of this kind in the county" and, expanded another
source, it is "one of the largest and best-equipped carriage factories in the state."5* By 1913
Clark's two sons, Murray and Ferdinand, were partners in the carriage business, whose buildings
were thereafter abandoned and used for automobile storage by 1927
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