Brief Life History of Albert
When Albert Clark was born on 1 March 1824, in Antwerp, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Hiram Clark Sr, was 28 and his mother, Mary Fenno, was 35. He married Mary Ann Tease on 1 June 1858, in Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Oroville, Butte, California, United States in 1860 and Williams, Colusa, California, United States in 1880. He died on 13 July 1893, in Escondido, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Albert Clark, "United States Census, 1860"
- Albert Clark, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Albert Clark in Mormon Battalion
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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Life sketch compiled by Mormon Battalion Association
Albert Clark was born 1 March 1824 in New York. He was the fourth of seven children and after the death of his mother in 1828, his father remarried the following year and added eight more children, t …
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