An undated portrait of Henry Lewis Lark (1852-1928). Both he and his wife, Loyetta Elizabeth [Tressler] Lark, died about the same time in Texas. Their remains were returned to Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, at the same time, where they were interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery.
Henry L. Lark was the son of Simon B. Lark (1816-1851) and Sarah [Boyer] Lark (1818-1909).
The following is his obituary as it appeared in the Elizabethville Echo about 8 March 1928:
AGED LAWYER DIED IN TEXAS
WIFE IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT WINTER HOME
BODY NOT TO BE REMOVED PENDING HER CONDITION
Funeral services for Henry Lewis Lark, who died late last Wednesday at his winter home in San Antonio have not as yet been arranged for. On Monday morning, members of the Dauphin County Bar met to honor its oldest member. Mr. and Mrs. Lark had gone to Texas in the Fall, where they had been spending the winter months for many years, and where he succumbed to an attack of double pneumonia. He was 79 years of age. The body will probably be brought to Millersburg for burial. Mr. Lark was born in Berrysburg, where he received his public school training, and was later a student of the Berrysburg Seminary. He studied law, in the office of a Harrisburg attorney and later was admitted to the Dauphin County Bar, in May 1873. Shortly after that time, he took up law offices in Millersburg, where he practiced law until the time of his death. In early life he became interested in investments in the West and South and he traveled quite extensively and in 1921, Mr. Lark, toured Europe, the Mediterranean and the Holy Land, but despite all his travels, he never left his native Lykens Valley to take up a new residence. During his travels, it is said he acquired holdings of extensive estates, which include oil holdings, cotton plantations, and a large ranch in Texas. Mr. Lark held the office of the Millersburg Borough Solicitor for twelve years, and during his law practice secured a reputation of being a fine authority in corporation work, and he was also a representative of a number of such corporations. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and was affiliated with the Susquehanna Lodge of the Masons, in Millersburg. He was wed to Miss Loyetta Tressler, a daughter of the founder of Tressler Orphans Home at Loysville, and is survived by her, and a son, Charles T. Lark, New York attorney, and one daughter, Mrs. Mabel Geis, wife of a Columbia University professor.
The portrait, from a family collection, was first published on 16 April 2014 on Ancestry.com.
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