Brief Life History of Harriet L
When Harriet L Clark was born on 16 December 1837, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Oliver Clark, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Filer, was 22. She married William Pease Gay on 12 December 1860, in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1910 and Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1920. She died on 17 June 1878, in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in East Granby Cemetery, East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Alice W Gay, "United States Census, 1920"
- Harriet Clark, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
- Harriet L. Clark, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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