David Lytle Clark was an American entrepreneur who came to the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old, and who founded the D. L. Clark Company

D. L. Clark Company

The D. L. Clark Company was founded in 1886 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh, by David L. Clark , an Irish-born candy salesman. In 1921, Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company was spun off as a separate corporation . The D. L...

 in 1886 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Allegheny City was a Pennsylvania municipality located on the north side of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, across from downtown Pittsburgh. It was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907...

 now part of Pittsburgh.

Its creations include the Clark bar

Clark Bar

The Clark Bar is a milk chocolate peanut butter bar that is similar to a Butterfinger. It is manufactured by the New England Confectionery Company ....

 and the Zagnut

Zagnut

Zagnut is a candy bar produced and sold in the United States. It was launched in 1930 by the D. L. Clark Company, which sold it to Leaf later on and acquired by The Hershey Company in 1996. Its main ingredients are peanut butter and toasted coconut, and it weighs 1.75 ounces .Unlike many other...

. Over the years the Clark Company has been bought and sold several times and is currently a holding of Necco

NECCO

Necco , pronounced "neck-o", is the acronym for the New England Confectionery Company, a manufacturer of candy. It was created in 1901 by the merger of several small confectionery companies located in the Greater Boston area; since December 2007 Necco has been owned by American Capital.The company...

(New England Confectionery Company).