When Lewis Geltz was born on 23 October 1850, in Zoar, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, his father, Jacob Geltz, was 28 and his mother, Anne, was 24. He married Mary Jane Whimpey on 3 July 1873. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Canal Dover, Dover Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States for about 22 years. He died on 2 May 1922, in Dover Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Dover Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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.
German: from Middle High German gelze ‘castrated hog’, presumably a metonymic occupational name or perhaps an unflattering nickname.
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