Emma Louise Clark Chapman Olson

Female6 August 1869–1957

Brief Life History of Emma Louise

When Emma Louise Clark Chapman Olson 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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Family Time Line

Anders August Olson
1875–1915
Emma Louise Clark Chapman Olson
1869–1957
Marriage: about 1908
Margaret Rosanna Olson Fassler
1909–2010

Sources (7)

  • Emma L Tulley, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Emma Clark Olsen in entry for Margaret Fassler, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Emma L Clark in household of A J Clark, "United States Census, 1880"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1908Cherokee, Iowa, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1871

    Age 2

    British Columbia joins the confederation.

    1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota

    Age 15

    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.

    1893 · The Minnesota State Flag

    Age 24

    The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.

    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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