of the Naval Historical Foundation, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, and served as vice president of the Illinois chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Clark's personal small 170 document collection of original manuscript material, the bulk relating to the 1770-1794 period, with some documents as late as 1950, is in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Published works The History of the 79th Division, A.E.F. (1922) When the u-boats came to America (1929, 2005) Lambert Wickes, sea raider and diplomat; the story of a naval captain of the revolution (1932) Gallant John Barry, 1745-1803; the story of a naval hero of two wars (1938) Captain Dauntless, the story of Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy (1949) The first Saratoga; being the saga of John Young and his sloop-of-war (1953) Ben Franklin’s privateers; a naval epic of the American Revolution (1956, 1969) George Washington’s Navy; being an account of His Excellency’s fleet in New England waters (1960) Naval documents of the American Revolution edited by William Bell Clark; with a foreword by President John F. Kennedy and an introduction by Ernest McNeill Eller, vol 1 (1964) - Vol 4 (1969). References American naval historians American male non-fiction writers 1889 births 1968 deaths American marketing people Historians of the American Revolution Sons of the American Revolution People from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Historians from Pennsylvania 20th-century American male writers