When William Jefferson Merchant was born about 1847, in New York, United States, his father, George Reynolds Merchant, was 30 and his mother, Elsje Eliza Brott, was 30. He married Alice Eveline Foster on 20 September 1870, in Leroy Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Branch, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Athens Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 20 June 1929, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in East Leroy, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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 a buyer and seller of goods, from Old French, Middle English march(e)ant, Late Latin mercatans (see Marchand ).
Indian (Gujarat and Mumbai): Muslim and Parsi occupational name for a trader, from the English vocabulary word merchant.
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