When Thomas Levi Busby was born on 10 July 1868, in Jasper, Missouri, United States, his father, William Flowers Busby, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Lucinda Crow, was 22. He married Dora Etta Estey on 5 February 1896, in Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sheridan Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. He died on 1 December 1944, in Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Jasper, Missouri, 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: habitational name from Busby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush, shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + bȳ ‘homestead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Bushby in Leicestershire.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Busby in Carmunnock (Renfrewshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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