When Mary Lahde Franklin was born on 12 October 1868, in Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States, her father, George Anson Franklin, was 43 and her mother, Mary Jane Clifton, was 35. She married Isbel Magruder McIlhenny on 5 October 1897, in Bexar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 8, Bexar, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 1 April 1953, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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.
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
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