When John W. Clark was born on 11 August 1847, in Italy, Yates, New York, United States, his father, Erastus G. Clark, was 35 and his mother, Hannah Green, was 30. He married Florence "Flora" A. Stone on 16 March 1899, in Prattsburgh, Steuben, New York, United States. He lived in Town of Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States in 1880 and Prattsburgh, Prattsburgh, Steuben, New York, United States for about 17 years. He died on 25 October 1918, in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Prattsburgh Rural Cemetery, Prattsburgh, Steuben, New York, United States.
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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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