Brief Life History of Henry Ellis
When Henry Ellis Clark was born on 21 April 1875, in Wilber, Saline, Nebraska, United States, his father, Henry Clark, was 36 and his mother, Alice A Hill, was 25. He married Jessie Galena Rice on 15 December 1898, in Swanton, Saline, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Swan Creek Township, Saline, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Swan Creek Election Precinct, Saline, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 17 September 1940, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Swanton, Saline, Nebraska, United States.
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- Henry Clark in household of Henry Clark, "Nebraska, State Census, 1885"
- Henry E. Clark, "Nebraska, Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Henry Ellis Clark, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
1883
Historical Boundaries: 1883: Saline, Nebraska, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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