Brief Life History of William Peter
When William Peter Clark was born on 12 August 1819, in French Creek, Upshur, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Manley Clark, was 27 and his mother, Anna M. Bozarth, was 23. He married Elizabeth Rohrbaugh on 7 February 1848, in Lewis, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Johnson, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Spring Creek Township, Johnson, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died on 5 November 1897, in Hemet, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, San Jacinto, Riverside, California, United States.
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- William Clark, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Clark - Government record: birth-name: William Clark
- Wm P Clark, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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