When Ransom Salmon Sumner was born in 1848, in McHenry, McHenry, Illinois, United States, his father, Ebenezer Sumner, was 36 and his mother, Gracia Angeline Searles, was 37. He married Margaret E. Kerns before 1870. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Fullerton, Nance, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 5 April 1932, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
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Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Rice, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Rice, Minnesota, United States
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: occupational name for an official who was responsible for ensuring the appearance of witnesses in court, from Middle English som(p)nour(e) ‘summoner’ (Old French somoneor, semoneor).
History: William Sumner came to Dorchester, MA, from England c. 1635. His descendants include US Senator Charles Sumner, a major force in the struggle to end slavery, who was born in 1811 in Boston.
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