When Clara Jane Heap was born on 24 October 1865, in Cedar Grove, Highland Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States, her father, William Henry Heap, was 27 and her mother, Mary Whitehead, was 30. She married John Raymond Whitney on 20 September 1883, in Brookville Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 8 April 1888, in Cleves, Miami Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Mount Carmel, Springfield Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): usually a habitational name from Heap, a lost place in Bury (Lancashire), but sometimes also a topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or rock pile, from Middle English hep, heip(e) ‘heap, pile’ (Old English hēap).
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