Lovina Norton
about 1869–
New Harmony, Washington, Utah, United States
The Life Summary of Lovina
Lovina Norton was born about 1869, in New Harmony, Washington, Utah, United States.
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World Events (3)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 1
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 1
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
Age 1
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
Age 1
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.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
Age 27
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
Age 27
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
Name Meaning
1 English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English norð ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. In some cases, it is a variant of Norrington .2 Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name.3 Jewish (American): adoption of the English name in place of some like-sounding Ashkenazic name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Norrington
Naughton
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