Brief Life History of Robert Arthur
When Robert Arthur Clark was born on 8 August 1921, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, his father, Arthur Edgley Clark, was 27 and his mother, Emma Elizabeth Harriet Sorgatz, was 29. He married Elizabeth Joan Wilson on 17 August 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Otowi Post Office, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States for about 1 years. He died on 12 December 2001, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Rio Rancho, Sandoval, New Mexico, United States.
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- Robert Arthur Clark, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Robert Arthur Clark, "New Mexico, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Robert Arthur Clark, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
Spouse and Children
1921–2001 Male
1929–2002 Female
Parents and Siblings
1893–1970 Male
1892–1986 Female
Siblings (3)
1915–1979 Female
1921–2001 Male
1925–2017 Male
World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 2
1923 · Oil is Discovered on the Navajo Reservation
Age 2
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Age 21
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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