Hilda Clark (model)

Hilda Clark (1872 – May 5, 1932) was an American

Hilda Clark was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, to Lydia and Milton Edward Clark.^{[citation needed]}

Career

As a young adult Clark moved east to Boston to become a popular music hall singer and actress. However, Clark became famous as a model in 1895 when she became the first woman to be featured on a tin Coca-Cola tray. Hilda Clark remained the advertising "face" of Coca-Cola until February 1903 when she married Frederick Stanton Flower in New York, taking the name Hilda Clark Flower.^{[citation needed]}

Flower was a nephew of New York Governor Roswell P. Flower. Clark had been an active socialite in Boston but retired from the stage when she married. Frederick Flower was a millionaire, involved in banking concerns and director of several railroads. Flower died in December 1930.

Death

Hilda Clark died on May 5, 1932, in Miami Beach, Florida.^{[citation needed]} She was buried at Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York.

Bibliography

• ISBN 0-465-05468-4

• Business Week - Hilda Clark
• Hilda Clark at Find a Grave

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