Brief Life History of Frederick Clark
When Frederick Clark Durant was born on 11 June 1853, in Albany, Albany, New York, United States, his father, Charles Wright Durant, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Anne Lane, was 31. He married Clara Elizabeth Harrison on 24 January 1877, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States for about 10 years and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 5 October 1926, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Menands, Albany, New York, United States.
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- Fredk C Durant in household of Chas W Durant, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Frederick Clark Durant - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Frederick Clark Durant
- Frederick Clark Durant, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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