Brief Life History of Joseph Alexander
When Joseph Alexander Prout was born on 18 January 1869, in Illinois, United States, his father, John Wesley Prout, was 30 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Litherland, was 27. He married Judith Lenora Holsen on 4 May 1890. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Kokomo, Center Township, Howard, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 31 May 1945, at the age of 76, and was buried in Allendale, Wabash, Illinois, United States.
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- Joseph Prout, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Alexander Prout - Published information: birth-name: Joseph A Prout
- J A Prout, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Cornwall): variant of Proud .
French: variant of Provost ‘provost’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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