[3] After spending four years at the Lenox Academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he learned Latin and Greek, in the fall of 1826, Clark began attending Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he graduated in August 1831 and later built Clark Hall.

"[6] In 1851, Singer returned to Clark to defend him in patent litigation initiated by Elias Howe, who had created the lockstitch sewing machine.

[13] In Cooperstown, New York, where his father-in-law practiced law and had served as the District Attorney, Clark bought significant amounts of land had built the Hotel Fenimore, Pioneer Mills, and several cottages and farm houses.

[14] In 1874, he acquired an additional 500 acres where he built a Swiss chalet and, in 1876, he again hired Hardenbergh to build him a Gothic Revival castle that rose out of Otsego Lake and became known as Kingfisher Tower.

[5] Together, they traveled around Europe, collecting art and renting homes, in France and in Italy where they spent a winter.

[4] Caroline and Edward were the parents of four children, three of whom predeceased him, including:[3] Clark died of malarial fever at his country estate in Cooperstown in Otsego County, New York, on October 14, 1882.