When James Edward Downing was born in December 1869, in Putman Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States, his father, John R Downing, was 39 and his mother, Ellen Hughes, was 31. He married Dora Mae Bishop on 9 January 1894, in Fulton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Saint David, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Cass Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died in 1917, at the age of 48, and was buried in Cuba Cemetery, Cuba, Fulton, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1874: Fulton, Illinois, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín (see Dineen ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dun(n)ing, Douning (Old English Dunning, a derivative of Old English Dunna (see Dunn ).
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the hill, an -ing derivative of Middle English doun ‘hill’, equivalent to Downer . This formation is characteristic of Devon (compare Brooking ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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