John T. Clark was born on 10 March 1891, in Spring Lake, Utah, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 26 March 1961, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Gardena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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1872–1946 Male
1864–1954 Female
1889– Female
1891–1961 Male
1893–1953 Male
1909–1909 Female
1909–1958 Male
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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