Brief Life History of Frank Lester
When Frank Lester Boggs was born on 21 December 1868, in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States, his father, David B Boggs, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Carson, was 30. He married Katheryn N "Kittie" Salmon on 10 December 1891, in Bureau, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 7 June 1954, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- Frank Boggs, "United States Census, 1900"
- Frank L. Boggs, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Frank L Boggs, "Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1871
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.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English bogeys ‘boastful or haughty’. The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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