When Silas Sylvester Sprague was born on 22 January 1869, in Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri, United States, his father, Soloman Courtwright Sprague, was 23 and his mother, Angeline Boren, was 29. He married Mary Elizabeth Morgan on 29 September 1898, in Dallas, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1915 and lived in Benton Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Camrose County, Alberta, Canada for about 5 years. He died on 6 December 1945, in Oroville, Butte, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Gridley, Butte, California, 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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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 (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
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