When Josephine Mossbacher was born in 1869, in Randolph, Illinois, United States, her father, Franciscus Ignatius Mossbacher, was 48 and her mother, Mary Buerkett, was 29.
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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.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Moshe, Aryeh, Chaim, Gerson.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Mo(o)sbach, named with Old High German mos ‘peat bog’ + bach ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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