When Smith Ward was born on 4 April 1865, in Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, his father, Sylvanus Ward, was 38 and his mother, Priscilla Smith, was 31. He married Clysta Elizabeth Seitz on 22 January 1891, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 19 August 1946, in Salem Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Urbana was incorporated as a city in 1868.
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.
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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