Brief Life History of Edward John
When Edward John Clark was born on 12 May 1877, in Perry, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Cyrus Edward Clark Sr., was 30 and his mother, Sarah Jane Dunn, was 19. He married Georgina Izatt on 24 December 1902, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 October 1934, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Smithfield City Cemetery, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Edward John Clark, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1912, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1962
- Mr. Edward J Clark, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1884 · Logan Temple Dedication
On May 17, 1884, the Logan temple was dedicated by John Taylor. It was the only temple dedicated by him and was the second temple in Utah. The temple went under a major reconstruction project in 1976 to increase the capacity of the rooms inside and was rededicated in 1979 by Spencer W. Kimball.
1894
Historical Boundaries: 1894: Carbon, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Carbon, Utah, United States
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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