Genie Clark Pomeroy

Eugenia Orr Clark Pomeroy (April 27, 1867 – September 21, 1904), later Emerson, was an American writer and journalist.

Early life Eugenia "Genie" Clark was born in Iowa City, Iowa, on April 27, 1867. Her father, Rush B. Clark (1834–1879 had been an Iowa pioneer as a young man. Both parents were college graduates. Her mother, Eugenia Orr (died April 27, 1867), was a teacher who died giving birth to Genie. A previous son, Eugene Rush Clark, had died during birth in 1865. Clark's father married again in a few years, and to this union, several more children were born, of which two lived.

When Genie Clark was eleven years old, she went to Washington, D.C., to be with her father during his second term as a representative in the U.S. Congress. After his death on the floor of Congress in 1879, she returned to her former home and lived with her guardian at his country seat near Iowa City. Two years were spent afterward in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, with relatives.