Clinton F Clark

Brief Life History of Clinton F

When Clinton F Clark was born on 19 March 1867, in Champaign, Illinois, United States, his father, Erastus Jackson Clark, was 36 and his mother, Maria Jane Kirkpatrick, was 35. He married Ada Hungate on 23 December 1891, in Cimarron, Gray, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Stanton Township, Champaign, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1926, at the age of 59, and was buried in Drummond, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.

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Clinton F Clark
1867–1926
Ray Clark
1899–1901
Leta Clark
1903–1907

Sources (6)

  • Clinton Clark in household of Erastus Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Clinton T. Clark, "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935"
  • Clinton F Clark, "Find A Grave Index"

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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.

1871

In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.

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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

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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