Clarence Day Sr. was the head of his eponymous brokerage firm in New York during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where his son, Clarence Jr also briefly worked (and did so during the 1898 tax period). Clarence Sr. would become the inspiration for one of Broadway's longest running and successful plays, Life with Father, written by Clarence Jr. But before the book was written that would inspire the play, Sr and Jr conspired to buy and sell stocks, of which one of those transactions is represented by the $10 stamp below:
Author and illustrator Clarence Day, best known for his book Life With Father, was born in New York City on November 18, 1874. He graduated from Yale College in 1896, then worked in his father's brokerage house and served briefly in the U. S. Navy. In 1898 he was stricken with rheumatoid arthritis. He traveled for some years in search of a cure, then settled in New York, where he became active in the alumni affairs of Yale College and launched his writing career. Day's essays, book reviews, short stories, verses and cartoons appeared regularly during the 1910s-30s in Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Metropolitan Magazine, The New York American, and The New Yorker. His first book, This Simian World, was published in 1920. Day achieved his greatest popularity during the 1930s with the publication of Life With Father, a series of comic memoirs of family life. Clarence Day died of pneumonia on December 28, 1935. (From the description of Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, (bulk dates 1890-1935). (New York Public Library)).
The play was also made into a film:
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