Brief Life History of Jay Forest
When Jay Forest Clark was born on 10 May 1893, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, Henry Horace Clark, was 43 and his mother, Bertha Therasa Kabuschka, was 29. He married Mary Isabelle Welch on 18 May 1920, in Harlowton, Wheatland, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Linwood, Portage, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 8 December 1961, in Portage, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Jay Clark in household of Henry H Clark, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jay F. Clark, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Jay Forest Clark, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
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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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