John C. Clemens

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John C. Clemens is the founder of Clemens Markets. He owned a farm on Clemens Road in Mainland, Pennsylvania where he grew a variety of produce. He would take the best of his crops each Thursday to a booth he operated in the old Ridge Avenue Farmer's Market in Philadelphia.

He continued this practice for 18 years and in 1920, he bought the Howard Mitchell Wholesale Pork Business in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. He then built a slaughterhouse for the wholesale packing plant and called the enlarged operation the Pleasant Valley Packing Company. In 1929, the Lansdale Borough Farmer's Market opened on Vine Street in Lansdale behind the old Lansdale Post Office. Here Clemens sold, to area residents on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, quality pork products from the plant. During this same time period, John Clemens opened a retail butcher shop in the old Grant H. Warner store at 312 West Main Street in Lansdale. Mr. Clemens' sons, Abram and Claude, took over the butcher shop business in 1933.

In 1939, the business expanded to become a full-service food market, moving into larger quarters, located at 213 West Main Street in Lansdale. This was the first Clemens Market under the partnership of Abram S. Clemens, Claude Clemens and their cousin, James S. Clemens, Sr..

To this day Clemens still operates for residents in southeast Pennsylvania.

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