Brief Life History of Nellie Emma
When Nellie Emma Chase was born in January 1866, in Maine, United States, her father, Horatio T. Chase, was 24 and her mother, Abigail Etta Sanborn, was 24. She married John Lewis Burke on 31 October 1885, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in United States in 1949 and Mexico, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1950. She died in 1956, at the age of 90, and was buried in Upton, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Nellie E Burke, "United States 1950 Census"
- Nellie E. Chase, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Nellie Emma Chase Burke, "Find A Grave Index"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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 (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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