When Jessie Robert Clarkson was born on 5 September 1897, in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Ira Alonzo Clarkson, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Ellen Ryan, was 16. He died on 15 July 1899, in Attica, Harper, Kansas, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Attica, Harper, Kansas, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from Clark .
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