Brief Life History of Patrick Lewis
When Patrick Lewis Clark was born on 4 June 1939, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States, his father, John Edward Clark, was 35 and his mother, Joy Muriel Brown, was 25. He married Carolynne Marie Womack on 15 June 1961, in Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 14 December 1988, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 49.
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- Patrick L Clark in household of John E Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Patrick Clark - Published information: birth-name: Patrick Clark
- Patrick Lewis Clark, "Idaho Marriage Index, 1947-1961"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1950 · Great Falls dethrones Butte as biggest city
In 1950, Great Falls, Montana replaced Butte, Montana as the largest city
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
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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