When John Napoleon Chandler was born on 14 February 1868, in Big Laurel, Madison, North Carolina, United States, his father, Ezekiel Chandler, was 37 and his mother, Hester Ann Gunter, was 30. He married Margaret Rice on 24 November 1888, in Madison, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Carr Township, Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 17 March 1956, in Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Revere, Madison, North Carolina, 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.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a maker and seller of candles, from Anglo-Norman French chandeler ‘maker or seller of candles’ (Old French chandelier, Late Latin candelarius, a derivative of candela ‘candle’). While a medieval chandler no doubt made and sold other articles beside candles, the extended sense of modern English chandler does not occur until the 16th century. The name may also, more rarely, have denoted someone who was responsible for the lighting arrangements in a large house, or else one who owed rent in the form of wax or candles.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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