Brief Life History of Mae Ethel
When Mae Ethel Clark was born on 22 February 1880, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, her father, Henry Thomas Clark, was 48 and her mother, Adeline Densmore Brockway, was 18. She married William Lewis Cummings on 8 May 1913, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 21 October 1956, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States.
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- Mae E Clark in household of Addie Clark, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary E Clark, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- May Clark, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1881 · Hudson's
Clothing merchant Joseph Lowthian Hudson opened his first store inside the Detroit Opera House on April 2, 1881. Hudson was very successful with his small store and was able to move to a larger location on Woodward Avenue, far outside what was then the commercial district. Hudson's continued to grow until it became the tallest department store in the world. Hudson's 2,124,316 square foot store filled 32 floors, had 51 elevators, 48 escalators, 705 fitting rooms, and served over 16,000 meals a day.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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