When David H. Clark was born on 7 September 1863, in Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph Clark, was 38 and his mother, Margaret Armstrong, was 33. He married Mary J. Calhoun on 3 January 1885, in Greenfield, Adair, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Grove Township, Adair, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Spencer, Boyd, Nebraska, United States in 1910. He died on 12 October 1914, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Spencer, Boyd, Nebraska, United States.
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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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