When James W. Hardman was born in September 1869, in Lyon District, Preston, West Virginia, United States, his father, Hance Roland Hardman, was 22 and his mother, Caroline Frances Bumbaugh, was 20. He died before 1880.
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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.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English: occupational name from Middle English herdeman, herdema+n, hurdeman (Old English hierdeman, heordman) ‘herdsman, one who tends livestock’. Compare Heard .
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name Hardman (Old English Heardmann, literally ‘hard man’).
English and Irish: shortened form of Hardeman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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