How Did William Clark Build Copper In Butte

William B. Clark was one of the infamous Copperkings in Butte, Montana. As a matter of fact, Clark was the most powerful, and influential of them all. Even though today there is not much people who still remember him, he was one of the most important figures in the 19th century. He won fortune in Western Industry, achieved power in politics, and rose to fame as an art collector. Clark belonged to an age (1839-1925) when corruption, power, and money usually meant the same. The relentless reckless Gilded Age fed William Clark’s anxiousness of power. He started from nothing, and with nothing to lose he got it all. First, started with banking when he started making some money. However, he ironically found not his treasure in banks but in the mining industry. He turned a little mining town like Butte, into one of the most important cities in the US. Clark exploited the business of copper in Butte like nobody had done before. This turned Butte into a “Boom Town”, everybody wanted to move to Butte to make some money in the mines. Anyway, it was the Gilded Age, so all of that wealthiness of Butte was covering all the crap underneath the bed. Clark got rich yes, but costing the lives of too many people in the mines.

The Paternal grandfather was John Clark, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, who settled in Pennsylvania soon after the revolution. Eleven children were born to John and Mary, and seven grew to maturity. William was born January 8, 1839, near Connellsville, Pa. In March, 1869 William Clark and Katherine Louise Stauffer were married and left that very same day to the