When William Sherman Bumgardner was born on 5 March 1869, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Thomas Bumgardner, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Pinson, was 32. He married Libba Ora Myers on 18 September 1889, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 29 July 1951, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Little Grove Cemetery, Paris, Edgar, Illinois, 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.
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.
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Altered form of German Baumgartner .
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