Brief Life History of James Thomas
When James Thomas Clark was born on 7 June 1872, in Athens, Henderson, Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Clark, was 35 and his mother, Phoebe P Lindsey, was 28. He married Sarah Catherine Kelley on 3 April 1900, in Grant, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Gila, Grant, New Mexico, United States in 1900 and Light, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1910. He died on 2 December 1944, in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Thomas Clark, "United States Census, 1910"
- James Thomas Clark, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- James Thomas Clark, "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clerk, clark ‘clerk, cleric, writer’ (Old French clerc; see Clerc ). The original sense was ‘man in a religious order, cleric, clergyman’. As all writing and secretarial work in medieval Christian Europe was normally done by members of the clergy, the term clerk came to mean ‘scholar, secretary, recorder, or penman’ as well as ‘cleric’. As a surname, it was particularly common for one who had taken only minor holy orders. In medieval Christian Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established.
Irish (Westmeath, Mayo): in Ireland the English surname was frequently adopted, partly by translation for Ó Cléirigh; see Cleary .
Americanized form of Dutch De Klerk or Flemish De Clerck or of variants of these names, and possibly also of French Clerc . Compare Clerk 2 and De Clark .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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