Mary Ellen "Nellie" Clark

Brief Life History of Mary Ellen "Nellie"

When Mary Ellen "Nellie" Clark was born on 1 October 1882, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, Albert Clark, was 35 and her mother, Mary O'Brien, was 29. She married William Brough Parrish on 16 February 1909, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. She died on 9 October 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Daniel L. Bauer
1859–1939
Mary Ellen "Nellie" Clark
1882–1952
Marriage: 31 December 1914

Sources (17)

  • Nellie Baner in household of Daniel Baner, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Nellie Mary Ellen Bauer, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Nellie Clark, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

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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