Candy

[Towntalk]

All of us are familiar with the Clark Bar candy, but did you know that this candy bar had a Youngstown connection?

CALVIN C. LANCE. As secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Candy Company, Calvin C. Lance is officially connected with one of the best patronized manufacturing and mercantile establishments of the city, no class of trade being more attractive to the general public than that associated with the making and selling of toothsome dainties and delicacies, an art and science of which he is past master. A Pennsylvanian by birth, he was born, May 25, 1879, in Beaver County, on the farm of his parents, David M. and Mary L. (Beatty) Lance.

Left fatherless in infancy, Calvin C. Lance was graduated from the Beaver Falls High School, after which he began work as a clerk in the retail grocery of Allen Brothers. Becoming somewhat familiar with the business, he had charge of Christopher Schwab's grocery for eight years, being successful in his undertakings. Subsequently entering the employ of the D. L. Clark Company, he traveled on the road for the Beaver Falls branch of that firm for a time, later assuming charge of its Youngstown branch. That company disposed of all its branches in June, 1906, and Mr. Lance, in company with Mr. Clark, purchased the interests of the D. L. Clark Company, and in 1912 had it incorporated under its present name, the Youngstown Candy Company, Mr. Clark being made president, and Mr. Lance secretary and treasurer, as above mentioned.

Energetic, enterprising and ambitious, Mr. Lance has been a hard and faithful worker from his youth up, having first worked for wages in a glass factory when but twelve years old, and having been busy ever since, even as a school boy working during his vacations. The firm of which he is now a member erected the building which it now occupies, at 26-28 East Front Street, and also built the establishment in which it was originally located, and which is now occupied by the Ohio Gas Company, at the corner of Champion and Boardman streets. Especially particular that all of their productions shall be pure, wholesome, and health-giving, this company has built up an extensive and remunerative trade, their business, which is done locally and through truck delivery, requiring the services of fifteen employees. six of whom are salesmen. Mr. Lance is also connected with the D. L. Clark Candy Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, being a member of its board of directors.

In 1908 Mr. Lance was united in marriage with Miss Ella Houston, a daughter of John M. and Annie (Smith) Houston, natives of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they have one child, David M., born in 1910. Politically Mr. Lance supports the principles of the republican party by voice and vote. Fraternally he belongs to Western Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Youngstown; to the local Chapter, Commandery and Consistory; and to the Cleveland Shrine, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.