Brief Life History of William Reeve
When William Reeve Clark Sr. was born on 7 May 1905, in Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Emory Wendell Clark, was 36 and his mother, Lucie "Lucy" Hamilton Wing, was 31. He married Jean Carolyn Cooper on 30 January 1932, in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Quebec, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1936 and lived in Detroit Ward 17, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Bloomfield, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 23 April 1994, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 88.
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- William R Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Clark, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- William Reeve Clark, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1909 · The Ford Building
The Ford Building was one of the first high-rises to use a steel structural support system. It stands at 23 stories in total height and it held the title as tallest building in Detroit from 1908 until 1913.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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