When Alva Hart was born on 20 July 1869, in Mentor Township, Lake, Ohio, United States, his father, Julius Horatio Hart, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth L. Brown, was 35. He married Amelia Weitz on 19 January 1895, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Ohio, United States in 1941. He died on 14 March 1941, in Mentor Township, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mentor Municipal Cemetery, Mentor, Lake, Ohio, 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.
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 and North German: nickname from Middle English hert (Old English heorot), Middle Low German hërte, harte ‘hart, stag’, perhaps for a quick-footed or timorous individual.
German: variant of Hardt 1 and 2. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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