Clayton Mark and Company
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Clayton Mark founded Clayton Mark and Company in 1900 in Evanston Illinois to manufacture wrought steel pipe and water well supplies. Clayton Mark, along with his four sons Clarence Mark, Clayton Mark, Cyrus Mark, and Griffith Mark held various positions in the firm and made it a driver of Evanston’s economy. It was the single largest employer in the city, with overall sales exceeding $10,000,000 a year. Clayton Mark products were sold throughout the United States and many countries worldwide. For example, Mark’s forged steel unions (high pressure fittings) were used in oil wells from Texas to Arabia. The steel tubing manufactured at Clayton Mark and Company was used in the making of furniture, automobiles, and bicycles whose market was worldwide. Mark conduit was used in house construction for the conduction of electrical wiring. And Clayton Mark and Company’s water well systems, supplies, and devices were used for pumping water out of the ground in rural districts around the globe. Clayton Mark and Company employed thousands of people in the 50+ years of its existence, and has had a lasting impact on the town of Evanston and the people who live there. Clayton Mark is regarded as a pioneer in the steel pipe industry. He also founded Marktown, a planned worker community to house the workers for his Mark Manufacturing Company in East Chicago.
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