When Luther Calvin Ahalt was born on 18 July 1868, in Broad Run, Frederick, Maryland, United States, his father, Benjamin S Ahalt, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Derr, was 29. He married Mary Catherine Beachley on 18 December 1890, in Christ Reformed Church, Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1935 and Jefferson, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1940. He died on 26 September 1944, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland, 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.
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.
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.
Americanized form of German Ehalt ‘servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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