When Nettie May Duncan was born on 18 October 1868, in Kendall, Illinois, United States, her father, James Monroe Duncan, was 15 and her mother, Mary Alice Garner, was 15. She married William Nicholes on 24 December 1928, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. She lived in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years and Benson Election Precinct, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 18 September 1945, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, 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.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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.
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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