Brief Life History of James Blaine
When James Blaine Clark was born on 11 July 1891, in South Haven, Sumner, Kansas, United States, his father, William Asbury Clark, was 75 and his mother, Sarah A Tomlin, was 36. He married Beatrice Rema Buchanan on 17 December 1912, in Anderson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas, United States for about 30 years and Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1950. He died in 1973, at the age of 82, and was buried in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
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- James B Clark, "United States 1950 Census"
- James B. Clark, "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935"
- James Blaine Clark, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
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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