Edward Severin Clark (July 6, 1870 – September 19, 1933)[1] was an American businessman, and the owner of the New York City apartment building The Dakota.
[2] After his father's death in 1896, his mother remarried to Bishop Henry Codman Potter.
His grandfather died during construction of The Dakota and bequeathed it to Edward, his 12-year-old grandson and namesake.
[4] Edward and one of his younger brothers, Stephen Carlton Clark, built a number of large buildings in Cooperstown, including The Otesaga Resort Hotel (1909), the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (1918), and the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium (1930).
[6] He donated the sculpture The Great God Pan (1899) by George Grey Barnard to Columbia University in 1907.