When Wallace Farnum Abbott was born on 3 April 1868, in Andover, Oxford, Maine, United States, his father, Thomas Parker Abbott, was 44 and his mother, Maria Henrietta Newton, was 27. He married Dora A Mitchell on 4 July 1892, in Andover, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 3 December 1936, in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Andover, Oxford, Maine, 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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: nickname from Middle English abbod, abbot(t), abbat ‘abbot’ (Old English abbod) or Old French abet ‘priest’. Both the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin abbas (genitive abbatis) ‘priest’, from Greek abbas, from Aramaic aba ‘father’. The nickname was presumably a joking reference to a person's behaviour. In the US, the English name is also sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name, e.g. Italian Abate , Spanish Abad , or German Abt .
History: George Abbot from Yorkshire, England, settled in Andover, MA, in 1640; he had numerous prominent descendants. George Abbott (probably not the same man) died in Rowley, MA, in 1647. Another early migrant was James Abbott, who came from Somerset, England, to Long Island, NY, in the 17th century.
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