When Henry Sheridan Moore was born on 7 April 1869, in Endicott, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, his father, Henry Freeman Moore, was 72 and his mother, Charlotte Griffith, was 36. He married Athenisa Belle Hall in 1891, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1943 and Jefferson, Ohio, United States in 1943. He died on 22 November 1943, in Rayland, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Northern Cemetery, Smithfield, Jefferson, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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