Daily Ancestorclk.
clk. in a city directory or record means clerk, as in clk. in a store, a county clerk, or a clerk of court.
City directories list clk. for clerk in their abbreviation keys, as in the R. L. Polk Bay City directory of 1886-7. The word after it usually names the employer, so clk. with a store name was a store clerk.
In court and county records, Clk. can name an officer, such as the clerk of the court who kept its records. Read the line to see which kind of clerk is meant.
As seen in a recordEntry in a city directory
Ogilvie Dora, clk. Fair Store, bds 220 Elm
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