When Clark William Shipman was born on 13 November 1875, in Venice Township, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States, his father, Charles W Shipman, was 27 and his mother, Mary J Emery, was 23. He married Laura Evelyn Smith on 5 September 1905, in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Lapeer, Lapeer, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Corunna, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 December 1950, in Caledonia Township, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Owosso Township, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States.
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
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