When Marie Anne Bourgoin was born on 22 March 1845, in Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, her father, Denis Bourgouin, was 39 and her mother, Constance Morin, was 34. She married Arsene Theriault on 25 June 1866, in Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Témiscouata, Quebec, Canada in 1861 and Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1901. She died on 21 July 1938, in Fort Kent, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Saint Louis Catholic Cemetery, Fort Kent, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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 This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856.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.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Alphee, Alyre, Andre, Armand, Aurore, Celina, Emile, Gilberte, Jacques, Laurent, Lucienne, Olivier.
French:
variant of Bourgouin (and, in North America, an altered form of this), a habitational name for someone from Burgundy (Old French Bourgogne), a region of eastern France having Dijon as its center. The area was invaded by the Burgundii, an ancient Germanic tribe from whom it takes its name, in about AD 480. The duchy of Burgundy, created in 877 by Charles II, King of the Western Franks, was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages, especially under Philip the Bold (1342–1404; duke from 1363). Compare Bourgoyne and Bourguignon .
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