Brief Life History of Martin Weaver
When Martin Weaver Clark was born on 14 August 1841, in Salisbury Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Jesse Clark, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Hetty Shirk, was 28. He married Jemima Hess about 1862, in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States for about 50 years and United States in 1949. He died on 11 February 1920, in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Dickey Church Cemetery, Uncas, Ashland, Ohio, United States.
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- Martin W Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- Martin W. Clark, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Martin W Clark, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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