Benjamin Roger Mastin

Brief Life History of Benjamin Roger

When Benjamin Roger Mastin was born on 4 May 1868, in Powell, Kentucky, United States, his father, Judge Theodosius Curtis Mastin, was 43 and his mother, Nancy Manserrena Burris, was 37. He married Virginia Bennett on 27 December 1888, in Powell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 daughters. He lived in Clay, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 1, Powell, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 31 January 1947, in Clay City, Powell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Clay City, Powell, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Roger Mastin
1868–1947
Virginia Bennett
1869–1927
Marriage: 27 December 1888
Bessie M Mastin
1890–1975
Stella Mastin
1894–1952
Cora Mastin
1895–1995
Lula Mastin
1899–1993
Ethel L Maston
1903–1993
Virginia Earle Curtis
1909–1999
Hazel Snowden Curtis
1911–1980
Leona Mae Curtis
1916–2004

Sources (17)

  • Ben Mastin, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Mastin - birth: 4 November 1869; Powell, Kentucky, United States
  • Benjirman Mastin, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"

World Events (8)

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.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

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 (Lincolnshire): variant of Maston , itself a variant of Marston . Compare Masten .

French (mainly northern), Flemish, and Walloon: occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog, manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). The Old French word had the further sense of a bad-tempered dog, and was used as an adjective in the sense of ‘bad, cruel’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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