Joseph S. Clark

Brief Life History of Joseph S.

When Joseph S. Clark was born on 6 August 1792, in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Solomon Clark, was 20 and his mother, Jemima Carruth, was 21. He married Fanny Gary on 13 June 1813, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 25 July 1852, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph S. Clark
1792–1852
Polly Kneeland
1794–1850
Marriage: 16 November 1817
Henry O. Clark
1819–1896
Arza Kneeland Clark
1823–1868
Eliza Ann Clark
1825–1868
Wilder Philander Clark
1832–1908
Helen M. Clark
1835–1902
Julia Maria Clark
1838–1917

Sources (31)

  • Joseph Clark, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Joseph Clarke, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Joseph Clark, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

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.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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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