George H. Clark Gymnasium

Who was George H. Clark?

George Halford Clark started working in his father's barrel stave business, which, overtime, grew to include the likes of the oil, gas, and paint industry. After accruing a good sum of wealth from this, he became a director for many Rochester-Area businesses, from the Genesee Valley Trust Company to the Rochester Dental Dispensary. Most notably, however, he was one of the 14 original stockholders in the Eastman Kodak Company, and a board member for the Rochester Institute of Technology.