J. H. Clark

John H. Clark IV founded Old Stone Press in 2012 to publish HAZELET'S JOURNAL: A Riveting 1898 Alaska Gold Rush Saga and to help others that had similar books or extraordinary stories to tell. He is the great-grandson of George Cheever Hazelet.

Before that John Clark owned and operated a custom manufacturing and commercial printing company for 27 years. Midland Communications Packaging, Inc. was a national award-winning innovator in the presentation-packaging field. Midland designed, printed, and built custom loose-leaf ring binders, high-impact point-of-purchase retail packaging, and presentation packaging for business and industry.

Midland was sold in March of 2006 so John could pursue other interests and explore the book publishing industry. After publishing the award-winning coffee-table book, History in the Making: The Story of the American Printing House for the Blind in 2008 through the late Bill Butler and Butler Books, he soon launched Old Stone Press to meet the needs of author-publishers like himself who needed help navigating the often overwhelming wilderness of the self-publishing and the book packaging industry.

He received a BA in Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico. Besides Old Stone Press, Clark is the president of The Port Valdez Company, which traces its land holdings to George Cheever Hazelet and his partner Andrew Jackson Meals original scripting of 720 acres in Valdez, AK. He and his wife Gretchen live in Louisville, Kentucky.