Brief Life History of Ernest Ross
When Ernest Ross Clark was born on 12 October 1888, in Freedom, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, his father, Arthur Benjamin Clark, was 34 and his mother, Helen Margaret Ross, was 34. He married Sylvia Ann Carling on 26 May 1914, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1939 and World in 1960. His occupation is listed as teacher of music; taught mandolin; wrote accounts of the mexican revolution for the "logan journal" newspaper; given free vocal lessons by professor george thatcher if he helped with the stake choir in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He died on 19 July 1968, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Afton Cemetery, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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- Ernest Clark, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- 1888 Wyoming Millennium File Birth of Ernest Ross Clark son of Arthur Benjamin Clark & Helen Margaret Ross
- 1918 Utah Marriage of Ernest Ross Clark & Esther Pratt, "Utah, County Marriages"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892
Named for Apostle Francis M. Lyman who along with Owen Woodruff, also an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, selected the townsite in 1892.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
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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