Brief Life History of Clark Wickham
When Clark Wickham Mills was born on 19 February 1832, in Goshen, Orange, New York, United States, his father, Shepherd Mills, was 30 and his mother, Huldah Dayton, was 31. He married Julia Sophia Coleman on 28 March 1860, in Essex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Pompton, Pompton Township, Passaic, New Jersey, United States in 1880. He died on 5 January 1887, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States.
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- Clark W Mills in household of Sheppard Mills, "United States Census, 1850"
- Clark C Mills, "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956"
- Clark W. Mills, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
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1834 · The City of Brooklyn is Incorporated
An act of incorporation in 1834 turned the village and town of Brooklyn to the city of Brooklyn. The city was divided into nine wards.
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.
1847
A battalion of volunteers from New Jersey assisted during the Mexican-American War. They were active from 1847 to 1848 and divided among four companies. The battalion assisted during the Battle of Contreras and the Battle of Churubusco.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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