Brief Life History of Joseph Roxbury
When Joseph Roxbury Clark was born on 21 February 1868, in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Clark, was 32 and his mother, Agnes Roxburgh, was 23. He married Catharine Alexander on 4 July 1894, in Crested Butte, Gunnison, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 4 Baldwin, Gunnison, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Valdez, Las Animas, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 27 April 1943, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
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- Joseph Clark in household of Joseph Clark, "Scotland Census, 1871"
- Joseph Clark, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Joseph Clark, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1879
Historical Boundaries: 1879: Gunnison, Colorado, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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