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