Brief Life History of Nicholas
Nicholas Clark was born about 1832, in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He had at least 1 daughter with Mary Stewart. He lived in Rulo Township, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1860 and Marble Hill, Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1870. In 1880, at the age of 49, his occupation is listed as farmr in Rulo Township, Richardson, Nebraska, United States. He died before 1900.
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Sources (7)
- Nicholas Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Nicholas Clark - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth:
- Nicholas Clark in entry for Norman Kermoade and Mary E Clark, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1842
Historical Boundaries: 1842: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States 1851: Bollinger, Missouri, United States
1851
Historical Boundaries 1851: Bollinger, Missouri, United States
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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