Brief Life History of Milton Lester
When Milton Lester Clark was born on 24 September 1880, in Lena, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, his father, Wellington Clark, was 35 and his mother, Martha Jane "Mattie" Fair, was 32. He married Millie Wilsey on 5 March 1908, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Pleasant Valley Township, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 1 May 1957, in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lena, Stephenson, Illinois, United States.
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- Milton Clark in household of Welh* Clark, "United States Census, 1900"
- Milton Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Milton L. Clark, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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