Brief Life History of Edward Watkins
When Edward Watkins Clark Jr. was born on 17 June 1851, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Edward Watkins Clark, was 31 and his mother, Lucy Ashby, was 32. He married Mary Ann Taylor on 4 July 1875, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 13 October 1919, in Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Santaquin City Cemetery, Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Edward Clark in household of Lucy Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- Edward M. Clark and Augusta Weinstein, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Edward Watkin Junior Clark, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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