Brief Life History of John Hogue
When John Hogue Thompson was born on 29 March 1868, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, his father, William Courdon Thompson, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Jane Emery, was 31. He married Ann Laura McClish in 1884, in Argos, Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Franklin Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Green Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 13 July 1930, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Argos, Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States.
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- John Thompson, "United States Census, 1930"
- John H. Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
- John H. Thompson in entry for Leroy Green, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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