Brief Life History of Emma Louise
When Emma Louise Clark was born on 6 August 1869, in Cherokee, Cherokee, Iowa, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Clark, was 35 and her mother, Rosanna Hun Taylor, was 38. She married Arlo Bird Chapman about 1893, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Willow Township, Cherokee, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Rock Township, Cherokee, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died in 1957, in Cherokee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Washta, Cherokee, Iowa, United States.
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- Emma L Tulley, "United States Census, 1930"
- Emma Clark Olsen in entry for Margaret Fassler, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Emma Olsen in household of August H Olsen, "Canada Census, 1911"
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World Events (8)
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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