Brief Life History of John James
When John James Clark was born on 2 May 1927, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Oliver James Clark III, was 42 and his mother, May Hanrahan, was 39. He died on 20 October 2009, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 82.
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- John Clark in household of Oliver Clark, "United States Census, 1930"
- John James Clark, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"
- John Clark in household of Oliver J Clark, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1929 · St. Valentine's Day Massacre
On the morning of February 14, seven men were shot by four men using tommy guns. Two of the men were dressed as policemen, and the others wore suits, ties, overcoats, and hats. Witnesses saw the fake police leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. The massacre was planned by Al Capone to eliminate the leader of the North Side Gang. the massacre was a result of the Prohibition and the murder of one of the police officer's son.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
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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