When Sarah Elisabeth Browning was born on 16 February 1869, in Marion, Iowa, United States, her father, Francis Marion Browning, was 21 and her mother, Martha Riley, was 21. She married John Alexander Harris in 1886, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pleasant Hill Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Grand River Township, Wayne, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 3 August 1946, in Brookfield, Linn, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77.
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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 capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
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 (southern): from the Middle English personal name Brouning (Old English Brūning), a derivative of the byname Brūn (see Brown ).
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Browning was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
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