Brief Life History of Franklin Edmund
When Franklin Edmund CLARK was born on 30 November 1904, in Kansas, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Clark, was 43 and his mother, Minnie May McVey, was 32. He married Nellie Francis ENCELL on 19 February 1927, in Howard, Elk, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Elk, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Howard Township, Elk, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 1 April 1993, in Howard, Elk, Kansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard, Elk, Kansas, United States.
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- Frank E Clark in household of B F Clark, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Franklin Edmund Clark, "Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Franklin E. Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1928 · Kansas Wheat
In 1928, Kansas produced one-seventh of the world's wheat crop. Several years later in 1931, Kansas had produced a record breaking 240 million bushels of wheat.
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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