When Arthur Franklin Chaffee was born on 22 August 1848, in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel Luther Chaffee, was 35 and his mother, Ursula Selenda Janes, was 30. He married Mary Priscilla McClarty on 7 June 1871, in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1910 and Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1920. He died on 11 August 1931, in Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
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.
English (of Norman origin): descriptive nickname from a derivative of Old French chauf ‘bald’ (from Latin calvus). Compare Cave .
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