When Clara Davitt was born on 1 September 1868, in Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, her father, Hugh Davitt, was 63 and her mother, Mary Donnelly, was 43. She married Arthur Darwin Ranstead on 30 January 1894, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hyde Park, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 October 1935, in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Des Plaines, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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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.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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Irish (Mayo): shortened form of McDavitt , see McDevitt .
Americanized form of Polish Dawid .
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