Brief Life History of Wilford Arnold
When Wilford Arnold Clark was born on 13 March 1904, in Freedom, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, his father, Arthur Raymond Clark, was 25 and his mother, Ida Emma Weber, was 22. He married Ruth Maria Kellersberger on 25 June 1929, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Election District 12, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States for about 10 years and United States in 1949. He died on 7 April 1986, in Etna, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Etna, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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- Wilford A. Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- Wilford Arnold Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Wilford Arnold Clark, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1911
Historical Boundaries 1908: Uinta, Wyoming, United States 1911: Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
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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Autobiography of Wilford Arnold Clark
My father was Arthur Raymond Clark. My mother was Ida Emma Weber, a convert to the church from Switzerland. Her family moved to Freedom, Wyoming, and this is where my father met her. I was born in Fr …
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