Brief Life History of Frank Floyd
When Frank Floyd Clark was born on 7 March 1895, in Mulkeytown, Franklin, Illinois, United States, his father, Walter Scott Clark, was 40 and his mother, Mary Margaret Sulser, was 24. He married Grace Ramsey in 1919. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Rural, Franklin Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States in 1935 and Barren Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died in June 1985, in Saline, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States.
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- Floyd Frank Clark in household of Herbert ? Adams, "United States Census, 1910"
- Floyd Frank Clark, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Floyd Frank Clark, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1906
Historical Boundaries: 1906: Franklin, Illinois, United States
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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