Duane Robert Clark

Brief Life History of Duane Robert

When Duane Robert Clark was born on 2 October 1925, in Little Sioux Township, Woodbury, Iowa, United States, his father, Dewey Eugene Clark, was 27 and his mother, Ada Belle Seitzinger, was 24. He had at least 1 son with Eleanor Lorraine Mccleery. He lived in Grant Township, Monona, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 7 November 2012, in Whiting, Monona, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Smithland, Woodbury, Iowa, United States.

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Duane Robert Clark
1925–2012
Eleanor Lorraine Mccleery
1926–2006
Duane R. Clark
1950–1975

Sources (7)

  • Duane R Clark in household of Dewey E Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Duane, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Duane Robert Clark, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1926 · Iowa becomes a provider of food to the world

Pioneer Hi-Bred International was the leader company experimenting with hybridization of corn and other seeds for agriculture in the world. It helped make different kinds of crop able to grow in harsh conditions so that other parts of the world would be able to farm and become self-sufficient. It was bought out by DuPont in 1999 and has continued to help struggling countries around the world.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

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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