Alfred L. Clark (1842-1922) was born in Barre, Vermont, and died in Rockford, Illinois. In 1866, he married Elizabeth "Lizzie" P. Clark (b. Choate) in Fisherville, Massachusetts. Clark was sequentially a farmer, a telegraph operator for the Boston & Maine Railroad Co., a wood carver for the Estey Organ company, and a grain merchant. He then started the Rochelle Gas Co. in 1905 with his son, Charles. Clark was a commander of the Beauseant commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar. He was also one of several people who incorporated the Ashton Cemetery association in 1903, and he was one of the original stockholders of the Ashton bank. In 1886, Clark wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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