Joseph H. Clarke

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Joseph H. Clarke

American mortician

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…number of vigorous salesmen, including Joseph H. Clarke, a road salesman for a coffin company. Impressed by embalming’s possibilities and profits, he persuaded a staff member of a medical college in Cincinnati to institute a brief course in embalming in 1882, thus establishing the basis of mortuary education in the…
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…number of vigorous salesmen, including Joseph H. Clarke, a road salesman for a coffin company. Impressed by embalming’s possibilities and profits, he persuaded a staff member of a medical college in Cincinnati to institute a brief course in embalming in 1882, thus establishing the basis of mortuary education in the…
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