Reuben Clark

Brief Life History of Reuben

When Reuben Clark was born on 1 September 1798, in Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Reuben Clark, was 27 and his mother, Temperance Freeman, was 22. He married Anna Howes on 12 September 1816, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years.

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Family Time Line

Reuben Clark
1798–
Rosin 'Rose' Howland
1804–1875
Marriage: 15 March 1821
Hiram Clark
1821–
Asaph Clark
1824–1904
Tempe Freeman Clark
1825–
Eliza Ann Clark
1828–1908
Lucy Clark
1830–1844
Gorham Clark
1833–1926
Rufus Clark Sr
1837–1924
Darius Clark
1838–1926
William Ames Clark
1841–1874
Clark
1843–1843
Albert F Clark
1847–

Sources (40)

  • Reuben Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Reuben Clark, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Reuben Clark, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"

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World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

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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