{"id":22286,"date":"2021-04-26T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/?post_type=photo&#038;p=22286"},"modified":"2021-04-26T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:53:00","slug":"clock-charles-harry-1878-1946","status":"publish","type":"photo","link":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/clock-charles-harry-1878-1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock, Charles Harry (1878 &#8211; 1946)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLES HENRY CLOCK &#8211; A prominent leader in the Redlands citrus industry, was born at Hampton, Iowa, completing his early education there and then attending Grinnell college and later Northwestern University, where he was graduated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He came to join his parents (<a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/clock-charles-l-1841-1916\/\">Charles L. &amp; Rebecca Clock<\/a>) and brothers (<a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/clock-fred-h-1867-1940\/\">Fred H.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/clock-harry-l-1870-1949\/\">Harry L.<\/a> ) here in 1901, entering the citrus business with them.\u00a0 He became president of Redlands Co-Operative Fruit Association about the time it was formed in 1911 and held the position until his death in 1946.\u00a0 He was also president of Redlands-Highlands Fruit Exchange, as well as being the district\u2019s representative on the boards of directors of the California Fruit Growers Exchange and the Fruit Growers Supply Co.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Clock was the first president of the Redlands Community Hospital Association when it was formed in 1927.\u00a0 He was chairman of the A.K. Smiley Public Library board, a position he had held since 1940.\u00a0 He was elected to city council in 1910 and was mayor of Redlands from 1912 &#8211; 1913.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/35183645\/muriel-adelaide-clock-_prendergast\">Muriel Beamer<\/a> in 1904.\u00a0 Their children were Anita Kathreen, Phyllis and Charles Philip.\u00a0 They resided at 671 E. Palm Avenue until they moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/awards\/a-c-denman-jr-graystone-home\/\">Graystone<\/a> in 1943.\u00a0 After Mr. Clock\u2019s death, Muriel Clock resided there with her second husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/prendergast-jeffrey-joseph-1875-1962\/\">J. J. Prendergast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22288 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm-1024x565.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm-700x386.jpg 700w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-home-at-671-e-palm.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Clock Home at 671 E. Palm Avenue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin-700x468.jpg 700w, https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Clock-Aud-and-1903-RHS-Admin.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Redlands High School Administration Building and Clock Auditorium on right<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22287,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/22286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/22286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=22286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}