Brief Life History of William
When William Clark was born on 31 January 1808, in Geneseo, Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States, his father, Rodman Clark, was 43 and his mother, Huldah Leaming, was 38. He married Apphia Orton about 1827, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Scott, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 28 May 1878, in Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States.
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- William Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
- Wm Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- William Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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