Brief Life History of Robie
When Robie Mears was born on 27 August 1846, in Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, James Mears, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Cross, was 28. He married Helen F Paul on 6 March 1871, in Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Waldo, Maine, United States in 1920. He died after 1930, and was buried in Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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- Roba Mears in household of James Mears, "United States Census, 1870"
- Robie Mears, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Robie Mears, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition
"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mear , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: from Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’. Compare Myers .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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