When Marquis de Lafayette Vantine was born on 4 August 1844, in Huntington, Indiana, United States, his father, Garret Voorhees Vantine, was 42 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Dawson, was 32. He married Catherine Keturah Chitwood on 14 June 1870, in Carl Junction, Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Twin Groves Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 2, Hardeman, Texas, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 23 November 1926, in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Kempf Family Graveyard, Hardeman, Texas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Known in the United States as the Mexican War. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not officially acknowledge the secession of Texas, and interpreted the US involvement with Texas as an invasion of borders. Mexican forces attacked American forces in an event called the Thornton Affair, prompting President James K. Polk to send a request for war to Congress. The war ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, which required the Mexican Cession of the northern territories and acceptance of the Rio Grande as the southern border of the United States. At the same time, the U.S. committed to pay Mexico $15 million for war damages and assumed roughly $3.25 million of their existing debt.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Americanized form (also Vantine) of Dutch Fonteyn: variant of Fonteijn, a topographic name for someone living near a spring or well, from fontein, a loanword from French fontaine (see Fontaine ).
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