Brief Life History of John Benson Benjamin
When John Benson Benjamin Raber was born on 6 July 1869, in Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, Sylvester Raber, was 24 and his mother, Mary Ellen Malott, was 25. He lived in Salt Lick District, Braxton, West Virginia, United States in 1910 and Saltlick, Braxton, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 17 December 1966, in Weston, Lewis, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Heaters, Braxton, West Virginia, United States.
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- John B Raber, "United States Census, 1930"
- John B. Raber, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- John Benson Raber, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German:
apparently an occupational name for a turnip grower, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rabe ‘turnip’.
(also Räber): from an ancient Germanic personal name, Radobert, a compound of rād, rāt ‘advice, counsel’ + berht ‘bright, famous’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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