Brief Life History of Nelson Samuel
When Nelson Samuel Clark was born on 14 December 1893, in Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel H Clark, was 31 and his mother, Harriet Maria Royce, was 30. He married Hellen Blanche Dewey on 19 December 1914, in New Lenox, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 38 years. He died on 19 July 1958, at the age of 64, and was buried in Main Street Cemetery, Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Nelson S Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- Nelson S. Clark, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Nelson E Clark, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
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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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