Brief Life History of William Marshall
When William Marshall Clark was born on 7 November 1907, in Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, United States, his father, William Clark, was 33 and his mother, Flora Emily Black, was 32. He married Glenna Mae McCoy in 1926, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Missouri Township, Brown, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died in January 1978, in Wyoming, Stark, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Wyoming, Stark, Illinois, United States.
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- Marshall Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
- Marshall Clark, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Marshall Clark in entry for Helen Pau Widen, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1919 · The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
During the Chicago race riot, which was raised by racial conflicts throughout Chicago, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer and was the worst race riot in Illinois.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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