Brief Life History of George W.
When George W. Clark was born on 19 June 1823, in New York, United States, his father, Asa Clark, was 40 and his mother, Polly Shear, was 37. He married Ann Janette Denison on 7 March 1855, in Floyd, Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 15 October 1858, in New York, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Holland Patent, Trenton, Oneida, New York, United States.
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Sources (2)
- George Clark in household of Asa Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
- George W. Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1823–1858 Male
1835–1870 Female
Children (2)
1857–1858 Female
1858–1940 Male
Parents and Siblings
1783–1870 Male
1786–1872 Female
Siblings (12)
1808–1860 Male
1810–1888 Female
1811–1901 Female
1815–1892 Male
1816–1880 Male
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World Events (4)
1825 · The Crimes Act
Age 2
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
Age 4
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 13
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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