Brief Life History of John
John Clark was born in 1808, in New York, United States. He married Lucy Brown on 24 February 1831, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Schuyler, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1855 and Jamestown, Ottawa, Michigan, United States in 1870.
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Sources (5)
- John Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- John Clark in entry for Elbert Clark, "Michigan, Deaths, 1867-1897"
- John Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
Spouse and Children
1808– Male
1810– Female
Children (7)
1832– Female
1834– Female
1836– Male
1839– Male
1841– Female
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1808
Age 0
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
Age 19
1846
Age 38
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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