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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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.
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.
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.
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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