Surname Search: "Clark"

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Clark

Related surnames or alternate spellings: Clarke; Clarck

Notable ancestors include:

Abraham Clark, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Carro Morrell Clark, or C.M. Clark, woman publisher and author
Charles B. Clark, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark corporation
David L. Clark, inventor of the Clark bar
Dick Clark, radio and TV personality
George Rogers Clark, revolutionary war military officer
John Clarke, pilot and Master’s mate of the Mayflower
Jonas Gilman Clark, founder of Clark University
Mary Higgins Clark, mystery and suspense writer
Samuel Clarke, metaphysician
Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights advocate
Virginia Estelle Clark, Titanic passenger and survivor
Walter Miller Clark, Titanic passenger
William Andrews Clark, copper magnate
William Clark, frontiersman and explorer (co-led Lewis and Clark expedition)

Photographs:

“Artilissa Dorland Clark and Charles Clark” Online Archive of California
“Beth Clark, 1925 - 1999” Mountain West Digital Library
“Carte d’ visite: Clark, Daniel, 1809-1891” Library of Congress
“Cassius Clark & Annabelle Clark” Monrovia Public Library
“Chief Russell Clark and Ferdinand Clark” Smithsonian
“Clark Baby (Robert Clark), in highchair” Wyoming State Archives
“Clark Family” Septima Poinsette Clark, LCDL
“Clark, Dee” 1900 high school graduation picture. Golden History Museum & Park.
“Clark, J.C.” ca 1915. The State Historical Society of Missouri
“Daniel C. Clark, ca. 1863” Maine Memory Network
“Della Clark” Mountain West Digital Library
“Emma Clark and Queenie, Second Street, Hallowell, ca. 1932” Maine Memory Network
“Emma Clark, mother of Ruth Clark” New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Family portrait from the Kenneth B. Clark papers” 1920. Library of Congress
“Frank Clark, 1888” Digital Library of Tennessee
“Genevieve Clark” Fort Collins History Connection
“Gladys Clark” Monarch Digital Collection
“Henry Thurston Clark, ca. 1880” Maine Memory Network
“Hilda Clark, 1890” The New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Items re emigration of Clark family from Liverpool to Canada, 1926” National Museums Liverpool
“Lillie Rodgers Clark (1866-1943)” Digital Library of Tennessee
“Marguerite Clark” The New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Mervin and Antoinette Clark, Portland, ca. 1898” Maine Memory Network
“Mrs and Mrs. Frank E. Clark (Lillian Rodgers) with daughter Rose, ca. 1895” Digital Library of Tennessee
“Nerie Clark III and Matilda Clark” South Carolina Digital Library
“Nora Metz Clark holding June Rose Clark (1918-1991) as a baby at 6 weeks” Louisville Historical Museum
“Siblings Wilbur Clark and June Clark” 1923. Louisville Historical Museum
“W.C. Clark of the 18th Maine, 1861” Maine Memory Network
“William C. Clark, Portland, ca. 1900” Maine Memory Network

Website clippings, blog posts, etc (no paywalls)

“Clark families: Jefferson County, NY Pioneers” NyGenWeb
“Clark Family History” ithacalansing.wordpress.com
“Clark House Historian: The Jonathan Clark House Museum Historian’s Blog”
“Empty Mansions and the Clark Family in Los Angeles” La-explorer.com
“Family Archives: The Clark Family” Alfred Gillett Trust
“The Clark Family and the Kentucky Derby” James J. Holmberg, The Filson Historical Society
“The Scottish Clarks of Granville Township” Annapolis Heritage Society
“Tom Clark Genealogy” Blog
“William A. Clark and the Birth of Clarkdale, Arizona: A Legacy etched in Stone” Experience Clarkdale

Artifacts & mixed media

Clarke Family Tree, 1914, Library of Congress
Bull, William Perkins. “Clark family file, first family” (Full view on Internet Archive)
Bull, William Perkins. “Clark family file, second family” (Full view on Internet Archive)

Correspondence & letters

“1863 Oct 18 letter from Hiram Clark” Fair Haven History
Clara Barton letter to niece Ada I. Clark, 1901 - 1903” Library of Congress
Clark Family Correspondence, Online Archive of California
Grace Julian Clarke correspondence and papers, 1900 - 1905. Indiana State Library
Letter from Ellen Clark to husband, Edwin Clark, January 15, 1865, Bridgewater, New Hampshire. Minnesota Digital Library
Letter from William Clark to George Sibley, December 15, 1813. Lindenwood University
Thaddeus Clark letter on King Philip’s War, Portland, 1676. Maine Memory Network

Homes & Historical Markers

“Clark House (1894)” Montclair History
“Clark House Museum” Pewaukee, Wisconsin
“Frank Clark house on Glenwood & Oklahoma, Knoxville, TN” Digital Library of Tennessee
“Home of Mervin W. Clark, 1898” Maine Memory Network
“Jonathan Clark House” Wisconsin
“Nathan Clark Cottage, 1890.” Maine Memory Network
“Osmond Clark house, East Surry, ca. 1888” Maine Memory Network
“Peter Clark, Jr. house” Maine Memory Network
“Photograph of home of Clark Family, DeKalb County, Georgia” Digital Library of Georgia
“The Clark House” Valley Center History Museum
“The George Clark House” Mansfield Historical Society
“The Silas Clark House” Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County
“The William A. Clark House, Clark’s Folly” New York. Historical Homes of America
“Thomas Clark House” Lowell Historical Architectural Inventory
“William A. Clark House / Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home” Los Angeles

Oral Histories

“Archie Clark (b. 1886)” Latah County Oral History Collection
“Artie Clark Collection” Library of Congress
“Dr. Albert Clark (Class of 1923) oral history.” Poly Alumni Association, San Francisco.
“Frances Clark Collection” Library of Congress
“Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976.” Documenting the American South
“Oral History interview with Adele Clark, February 28, 1964.” Documenting the American South
“Oral history interview with Don E. Clark” The Oregon Historical Society
“Oral history interview with Georgie Clark, November 7, 1991” Northern Arizona University
“Robert Clark Collection” (audio only) Library of Congress
“Thomas D. Clark Oral History Project” University of Kentucky
“Tom Clark Collection” Library of Congress

Books (Online & In Print)

Bauman, William. “George Clark Family History: Including the Research of Wendy Ricker” 2015. (Full PDF view)
Clark, Almon W. “1541-1907. The Clark family genealogy in the United States, a genealogical record showing sources of the English ancestors” Stamford, N.Y., Press of the Mirror-recorder, 1907. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, Charles. “Some of the ancestors of Joseph Clarke, who was born in Suffolk, England, about A.D. 1600” Detroit, W.C. Heath, 1904. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, David Sanders. “Notes on the Clark family and related families” Washington, 1961. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clarke, George Kuhn. “Genealogy of the descendants of Nathaniel Clarke of Newbury, Mass.” Boston, Press of T.R. Marvin & son, 1883. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clarke, George Kuhn. “The descendants of Nathaniel Clarke and his wife Elizabeth Somerby of Newbury, Massachusetts. A history of ten generations, 1642-1902” Boston, 1902. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, George Washington. “The history and genealogy of our branch of the Clark family and its connections” 1898. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Clark, Henry Spencer. “A record of the land and descendants of Henry and Anne Clark: who settled on the headbranches of Whippany River, Roxiticus, Old Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in the year 1728” Paterson, N.J., C. Kamer Jr., 1909. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, Henry William. “A genealogy of the Clark family” Montgomery, Ala., 1905. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Clark, John. “Records of the descendants of Hugh Clark, of Watertown, Mass. 1640 - 1866” Boston, 1866. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, Rev. Edgar Warner. “History and genealogy of Samuel Clark, Sr., and his descendants from 1636 - 1897 - 261 years.” St. Louis, Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Clark, Salter S. “A few genealogical items connected with the family descended from William Clark, one of the original settlers of Haddam, Conn.: especially in the line of Ebenezer Clark, who from 1753 to 1800 lived in Washington, Conn.” New York, 1880. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Clark, Simeon. “A Record of some of the branches of the family of Simeon Clark of Amherst, Mass.” 1883. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Gray, L. W. “Genealogy of the Clark family of America, descended from Major Stephen Clark of Kittery, Maine” 1889. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hart, Ann Clark. “Abraham Clark; signer of the Declaration of Independence” San Francisco, CA., Pioneer Press, 1923. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Hoots, Ada M. “History of the Clark Family, Madison County, Iowa” Winterest, Iowa. 1937. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hume, Karl R. “Clark” (Full view on FamilySearch)
Johnson, Rev. William W. “Clarke-Clark genealogy: records of the descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697” North Greenfield, Wis., W.W.Johnson, 1884. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Jones, Henry A. “The Clark Genealogy, embracing a full account of the Clark reunion” Southington, Conn., 1890. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Sheetz, Genevie W. “William Clark, 1771-1850, and Clark Descendants: A genealogy with historical sketches of some of our ancestors allied families” Monterey Park, Calif., 1964. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Walton, Emma Lee. “The Clark Genealogy, some descendants of Daniel Clark, of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639 -1913.” Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, New York, 1913. (Full view on Internet Archive).

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