George Denison Clark

Brief Life History of George Denison

When George Denison Clark was born on 9 September 1858, in Floyd, Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, George W. Clark, was 35 and his mother, Ann Janette Denison, was 23. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Georgia Alice Lacy. He lived in Jefferson, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Richland Election Precinct, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 14 June 1940, in Richardson, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Steele Cemetery, Falls City, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Denison Clark
1858–1940
Georgia Alice Lacy
1854–1940
Lacy Denison Clark
1886–1950
Child Clark
1888–1888
Florence or Flo Clark
1889–1984
George Erastus Clark
1893–1982

Sources (12)

  • George D Clark, "United States Census, 1930"
  • George Denison Clark, "California, Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"
  • G. D. Clark in entry for Lacy D. Clark, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867

Nebraska is the 37th state.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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