Brief Life History of Phyllis
When Phyllis Clark was born on 22 November 1915, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, her father, George Hammond Clark, was 33 and her mother, Louise Parker, was 28. She married Gordon Ira Empey on 1 December 1936, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Tyhee, Bannock, Idaho, United States for about 8 years. She died on 9 January 1994, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- Phyllis Empey, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Phyllis Clark - Church record: birth-name: Phyllis Clark
- Phyllis Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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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