When Le Clair Wirick was born about 1848, in Illinois, United States, his father, George Wirick, was 29 and his mother, Juliaette Atwood, was 26. He lived in Paw Paw Township, DeKalb, Illinois, United States for about 10 years.
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Probably an altered form of North German Wirich or Wierich (see Weirich ).
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