Francis Edward Clark

Francis Edward Clark (12 September 1851 – 26 May 1927) was an American clergyman.

Clark was born of New England ancestry in Aylmer, Quebec, Canada.

[2] On 2 February 1881, he founded in Portland, the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, which, beginning as a small society in a single New England church, developed into a great interdenominational organization, which in 1908 had 70,761 societies and more than 3,500,000 members scattered throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, India, Japan and China.

After 1887, he devoted his time entirely to the extension of this work, and was president of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor and of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, and editor of the Christian Endeavor World (originally The Golden Rule).

[4] His home at 379 Central Street in Auburndale, Massachusetts is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.