Brief Life History of Jesse William
When Jesse William Hoyt was born on 22 November 1869, in Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, United States, his father, Lewis Hoyt, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Matilda Badger, was 32. He married Mae Emma Whinnery on 14 October 1909, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in DeKalb, DeKalb, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. He died on 1 September 1935, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Jesse W Hoyt, "United States Census, 1930"
- Jesse Hoyt, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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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.
1872 · Montgomery Ward Inc.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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: nickname from Middle English hoit ‘long stick’.
Altered form of Haught , a surname of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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