Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Clark was born on 5 September 1835, in Perry, Illinois, United States, his father, Alexander Clark Jr, was 31 and his mother, Rutha "Ruthy" Teague, was 26. He married Margaret M Killingsworth on 12 January 1854, in Perry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Du Quoin, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Pinckneyville Election Precinct, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 2 December 1909, in Perry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States.
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- George W. Clark, "United States Census, 1880"
- Geo W Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- George W. Clark, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Pike, Illinois, United States
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
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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