Brief Life History of Osgood
When Osgood Clark was born on 21 October 1872, in Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, United States, his father, Rev. James Osgood Andrew Clark, was 45 and his mother, Ella Eliza Anderson, was 27. He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Ida Ruff Stovall. He lived in District 564, Bibb, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Bubanza, Burundi in 1950. He died on 12 December 1950, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United States.
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- Oscar Clarke in household of Ella A Clarke, "United States Census, 1900"
- Osgood Clark, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Osgood Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1890
Count Gustav Aldolf von Götzen arrives in Burundi.
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.
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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