Brief Life History of Clara M
When Clara M Blake was born on 6 March 1879, in Delphos, Marion Township, Allen, Ohio, United States, her father, Francis J Blake, was 27 and her mother, Adaline Foster, was 25. She married William Elmer Rennaker on 17 October 1912, in Grant, Indiana, United States. She lived in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 3 October 1915, in Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Estates of Serenity, Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.
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- Clara Blake in household of Francis Blake, "United States Census, 1880"
- Clara Hook Rennaker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Clara Hook in entry for William Rennaker, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (England and central Scotland): variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.
English: nickname from Middle English blak(e) (Old English blāc) ‘wan, pale, white, fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blāc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English bleik, blaik>, blek(e) (Old Norse bleikr) ‘pale or sallow’ (in complexion).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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