When DaCosta Clark was born on 20 November 1906, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States, his father, James Cecil Clark M.D., was 23 and his mother, Laura Clark, was 20. He married Erma Janet Merrill on 15 September 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 8 December 1979, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
The Courthouse was finished in 1908 and remains the main Courthouse for Garfield County.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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