Emma L. Clarke

Female8 December 1844–17 March 1925

Brief Life History of Emma L.

When Emma L. Clarke was born on 8 December 1844, in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States, her father, Thomas Clarke, was 35 and her mother, Almira M. Wells, was 26. She married Kent Bliss Jarvis on 30 September 1872, in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Otsego, Otsego, New York, United States in 1875. She died on 17 March 1925, in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Kent Bliss Jarvis
1847–1876
Emma L. Clarke
1844–1925
Marriage: 30 September 1872

Sources (8)

  • Emma Clark in household of Thomas Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Emma L. Clarke - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Emma L. Clarke
  • Emma C Jarvis, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    30 September 1872Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1846

    Age 2

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    1863

    Age 19

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

    Age 22

    The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

    Name Meaning

    English and Irish: variant of Clark .

    History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Nicholas Clarke was one of the founders of Hartford, CT (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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