Brief Life History of William Austin
When William Austin Parks was born on 19 January 1869, in Tipton, Indiana, United States, his father, Jonas Austin Parks, was 42 and his mother, Catherine Purvis, was 35. He married Catherine Bertha Terrell on 23 November 1892, in Tipton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Prairie Township, Tipton, Indiana, United States for about 50 years. He died on 3 June 1939, in Kokomo, Center Township, Howard, Indiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Sharpsville, Liberty Township, Tipton, Indiana, United States.
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- Willis Parks in household of Jonas Parks, "United States Census, 1870"
- William A Parks, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- William Austin Parks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Park 1 with genitival, plural, or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Perk , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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