Reuben Clark

Brief Life History of Reuben

When Reuben Clark was born on 14 October 1899, in Upton, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, Herbert Henry Clark, was 38 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Meadows, was 26. He married Fern Lucille Richins on 22 April 1927, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1930 and United States in 1949. He died on 2 May 1994, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Reuben Clark
1899–1994
Fern Lucille Richins
1910–1988
Marriage: 22 April 1927
Valeen May Clark
1929–2017
Reuben Leon Clark
1937–2020

Sources (41)

  • Ruben Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Reuben Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Reuben Clark, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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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My, Mother, Mary Elizabeth Meadows by Wilford Clark

My, Mother, Mary Elizabeth Meadows by Wilford Clark My mother, Mary Elizabeth Meadows was born in Upton, Utah, on March 3, 1873. She was the daughter of Joseph Meadows and his second wife, Johanna J …

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