When Benjamin C Taylor was born on 18 September 1868, in Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Taylor, was 53 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Sidwell, was 34. He married Lillian Fransisco Finley on 31 March 1892, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Enola, East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 5 years. He died on 1 February 1941, in Enola, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Enola Cemetery, Enola, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 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.
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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