When Joseph Henry Lighter was born on 8 October 1853, in Mount Carroll, Carroll, Illinois, United States, his father, Jacob Henry Lighter, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Strickler, was 22. He married Emma Frances Wilhelm on 31 October 1876, in Grundy Center, Grundy, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pocahontas, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Rolfe, Pocahontas, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 29 March 1916, in Cherokee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rolfe, Pocahontas, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1857: Grundy, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English: nickname for the smaller of two men with the same personal name, from the comparative of Light .
Americanized form of German or Jewish Lichter .
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