In 1908 he married Euphemia Murray Abrams, of Hartford, Connecticut.
They had a son in 1909, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who was the author of novels The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat that were made into films, and he received the O. Henry Prize and was the first person inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame.
In 1918 Clark accepted the position of president at the University of Nevada, and moved his family to Reno, Nevada. During his time as president, the university expanded, surpassing 500 students for the first time in 1921, and 1,000 students in 1936. The School of Education was organized, as well as an Engineering Experimental Station. The Memorial Library was completed in 1927, with an approximate cost of $250,000 donated by William A. Clark in memory of his wife. Another gift of $415,000 from Clarence Mackay led to the construction of Mackay Science Hall in 1930, which housed the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. Additionally donations of land by Clarence Mackay increased campus acreage by nearly fifty percent.
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In 1908 he married Euphemia Murray Abrams, of Hartford, Connecticut.
They had a son in 1909, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who was the author of novels The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat that were made into films, and he received the O. Henry Prize and was the first person inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame.
In 1918 Clark accepted the position of president at the University of Nevada, and moved his family to Reno, Nevada. During his time as president, the university expanded, surpassing 500 students for the first time in 1921, and 1,000 students in 1936. The School of Education was organized, as well as an Engineering Experimental Station. The Memorial Library was completed in 1927, with an approximate cost of $250,000 donated by William A. Clark in memory of his wife. Another gift of $415,000 from Clarence Mackay led to the construction of Mackay Science Hall in 1930, which housed the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. Additionally donations of land by Clarence Mackay increased campus acreage by nearly fifty percent.
[Unsourced obituary added via duplicate memorial merge.]
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