Brief Life History of James Israel
When James Israel Clark was born on 10 October 1842, in Dansville, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Israel Justus Clark, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Angeline Tuttle, was 21. He married Anne Penelope Thompson on 11 February 1866, in Clarkston, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Benson, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 3 May 1909, in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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- James Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- James Clark, "United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891"
- James Israel Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Biography of Ann Thompson
Biography of Ann Thompson by Verla Wilkes, great-granddaughter Ann Thompson birth certificate from Somerset House shows birth registration as Ann. 1850 Census in London, England, lists her as Agne …
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