Leonard M Clark

Brief Life History of Leonard M

When Leonard M Clark was born on 1 May 1911, in Lena, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, his father, Milton Lester Clark, was 30 and his mother, Millie Wilsey, was 21. He married Velma A Strohecker on 15 January 1941, in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. He lived in West Point Township, Stephenson, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Freeport, Irving Township, Barry, Michigan, United States for about 2 years. He died on 25 September 1988, in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, United States.

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Leonard M Clark
1911–1988
Velma A Strohecker
1917–2001
Marriage: 15 January 1941

Sources (13)

  • Leonard M Clark in household of Milton L Clark, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Leonard M Clark, "Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951"
  • Leonard M Clark, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

1913 · Women get the right to vote in Illinois

Grace Wilbur Trout was elected president of the Chicago Political Equality League and started her presidency by making sure that each senate district was supporting suffrage for women. A few months later, the bill was up for voting in the state. Trout and her team went as far as to get male voters from their homes. The bill passed giving Women the right to vote for President of the Nation and all local offices not in the Illinois Constitution.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

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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