When James Harvey Knight was born on 20 July 1869, in Lamar, Walla Walla, Washington, United States, his father, Robert Richardson Knight, was 23 and his mother, Martha Ellen Harris, was 19. He married Annette R. Watson on 16 July 1893, in Union, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Elgin, Union, Oregon, United States for about 10 years and Franklin, Washington, United States in 1920. He died on 5 April 1959, in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla, Oregon, 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.
Historical Boundaries - 1885: Union, Oregon, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
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