Hiram Leaming Clark

Brief Life History of Hiram Leaming

When Hiram Leaming Clark was born on 14 October 1846, in Livingston, New York, United States, his father, Leaming Clark, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Stewart, was 22. He died on 6 April 1848, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Geneseo, Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leaming Clark
1821–1912
Margaret Stewart
1824–1902
Hiram Leaming Clark
1846–1848
Ida Anna Clark
1858–1863
Hiram L Clark
1848–1923
Alexander S. Clark
1851–1902
Hannah I. Clark
1853–1855
Arabelle E. Clark
1856–1856
Charles C. Clark
1859–1860
Lilly Clark
1861–1861
Frank Herman Clark
1864–1945

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  • Hiram L Clark in household of Leaming Clark, "United States Census, 1880"

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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