When Clara Jane Bandy was born in 1869, in California, United States, her father, Jesse Anderson Bandy, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Susan Colyear, was 36. She lived in Red Bluff, Tehama, California, United States in 1880. She died on 11 September 1891, at the age of 22, and was buried in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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 First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English bandi, bondi, bendi, derivatives of Middle English and Old English band, bond, bend ‘band, ribbon, stripe’ + Middle English -i, reinforced by Old French bendé ‘striped’, with reference perhaps to clothing ornamented with ribbons or stripes, or to the diagonal band of a heraldic device. Compare Band .
English: alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English bandy, bendy ‘curved stick’, used for someone with bent or crooked legs.
Czech and Slovak: from a derivative of banda ‘(gipsy) band’, apparently a nickname for a bandsman. This surname is found among Gypsies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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