Brief Life History of Lorenzo
When Lorenzo Clark was born on 25 May 1806, in Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Francis M Clark, was 23 and his mother, Abigail Kimball, was 19. He married Beulah Ann Rogers on 3 November 1830, in Perth, Lanark, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1844. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 22 January 1901, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Lorenzo Clark, "United States Census, 1840"
- Lorenzo Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Lorenzo Clark, "United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty 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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