Ora M. Clark

Brief Life History of Ora M.

When Ora M. Clark was born in September 1872, in Nebraska, United States, her father, Levi Clark, was 32 and her mother, Mary M. Wakefield, was 34. She lived in Goldfield, Esmeralda, Nevada, United States in 1910 and Whatcom, Washington, United States for about 5 years. She died in 1952, in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

Levi Clark
1839–1911
Mary M. Wakefield
1838–1921
Sarah Clark
1858–
George W. Clark
1870–1949
Ora M. Clark
1872–1952
Carrie A. Clark
1874–1934
Clarence Levi Clark
1877–1970
Clara Marie Clark
1877–1965
John Levi Clark
1880–1941

Sources (12)

  • Ora Hunter, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ora M. Clark - Government record: birth-name: Ora M. Clark
  • Ora Mable Hunter in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1889 · Washington Becomes a State

On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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