Waterhouse, Clark B.

Biographical Note

Clark Booth Waterhouse was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 8, 1893, the son of George B. and Leof Mills Waterhouse. His family moved from Illinois to Nevada before continuing on to California, where they settled in the small town of Saratoga in January, 1896.

Waterhouse attended the Saratoga grammar school and Campbell High School, from which he graduated in 1912. After graduation, he enrolled in the University of California (Berkeley), where he studied landscape engineering. During his course work, Waterhouse spent six weeks traveling through California with five other students and two of their professors, Drs. John W. Gregg and Ralph Tallant Stephens. Their travel was devoted to studying landscapes, gardens, and many famous private estates in California, such as the Huntington Estate in Pasadena; the Peabody Estate in Montecito; the Crocker Estate in Burlingame; the Gillespie Estate in Santa Barbara; and the Silent Estate in San Gabriel Valley.

Waterhouse spent the winter of 1915-1916 working in Santa Barbara, and also worked for several summers in forestry work at Lake Tahoe. He enlisted in the army as a corporal in October 1917 and was stationed in Washington, D.C., with the 3rd Battalion of the 20th Engineers (Forestry) Regiment. He was sent to Camp American University, a training station on the campus of American University, where the US Army, with the US Forest Service, trained foresters and lumbermen for their upcoming service in the forestlands of France. While in D.C., Waterhouse contracted pneumonia and died in December of that same year. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

From the guide to the Clark B. Waterhouse Photograph Collection, 1915-1916, (Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History, )