Brief Life History of William Oglesby
When William Oglesby Clark was born on 25 June 1817, in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana, United States, his father, Timothy Baldwin Clark, was 39 and his mother, Polly Keeler, was 31. He married Julia Ruhamah Applebee on 22 January 1844, in Ottawa, LaSalle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Drytown, Amador, California, United States in 1880 and Judicial Township 5, Amador, California, United States in 1910. He died on 7 November 1912, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- William Clark, "United States Census, 1850"
- Wm O Clark, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- William O Clark, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1835
Historical Boundaries: 1834: Des Moines, Michigan Territory, United States 1836: Des Moines, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1836: Lee, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Lee, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Lee, Iowa, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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William Oglesby Clark in Amador Co California
Through his long connection with the interests of Amador County William O. Clark has so lived as to win universal respect and consideration from his fellow men. He now resides on hi …
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