When Delmer Dufield was born on 14 July 1868, in Ridgefield, McHenry, Illinois, United States, his father, Robert Logan Dufield, was 30 and his mother, Adelia M. Boomer, was 31. He married Elizabeth K. James on 28 February 1901, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in McHenry, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1880 and Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 11 April 1951, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ridgefield, McHenry, 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.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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: habitational name from any of the places called Duffield in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, from Old English dūfe ‘dove’ + feld ‘open country’.
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