When Christena Andersen was born on 30 April 1869, in Thisted, Viborg, Denmark, her father, Morten Andersen, was 32 and her mother, Jensine Birgithe Andersen Broe, was 30. She married Joseph Lindsey on 31 December 1889, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Sønderhå, Vestervig, Denmark in 1881 and lived in Sønderhå, Hassing, Thisted, Denmark for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 27 November 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Niels, Lars, Nels, Per, Anders, Holger, Jorgen, Thor, Bjorn, Helmer, Alf.
Norwegian, Danish, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Anders, a vernacular form of Andreas . Compare Anderson 1.
Americanized form of Norwegian, North German, and very rare Danish patronymic Anderssen, a cognate of 1 above. Compare Andersson 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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