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Hilda Clark was born in 1872 in Leavenworth, Kansas . Her parents were Milton Edward Clark and Lydia Clark. Milton Edward Clark worked as a baker in Leavenworth. As a young adult she moved east to Boston to become a popular Music Hall songstress 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 . Flower was a nephew of New York Governor Roswell P. Flower . Hilda Clark had been an active socialite in Boston but retired from from the stage when she married. Frederick Flower was a millionaire, involved in banking concerns and director of several railroads. Frederick S. Flower died in December 1930. Hilda Clark died on May 5, 1932, in Miami Beach, Florida . REFERENCES Pendergrast, Mark. ''For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It.'' New York: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0465054684 EXTERNAL LINKS |
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