Joshua Reuben Clark Jr

Brief Life History of Joshua Reuben

When Joshua Reuben Clark Jr was born on 1 September 1871, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Joshua Reuben Clark Sr, was 30 and his mother, Mary Louisa Woolley, was 23. He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Luacine Annetta Savage. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1938 and lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 6 October 1961, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Reuben Clark Jr
1871–1961
Luacine Annetta Savage
1871–1944
Annie Louise Clark
1899–1997
Marianne Savage Clark
1901–1990
Joshua Reuben Clark III
1908–1992
Luacine Savage Clark
1914–2002

Sources (38)

  • Ruben J Clark, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Joshua R. Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Joshua Reuben Clark, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

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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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