When Clifton Lewis Bowley was born on 9 August 1868, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Albert Rhodes Bowley, was 40 and his mother, Adaline Ellis Lewis, was 40. He married Marie-Corrine Caroline Pare' on 8 June 1907. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. He died on 13 April 1938, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, 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: habitational name from any of several places called Bowley such as Bowley in Cadbury (Devon), a lost place called Bowley in Hailsham (Sussex), or Bowley in Blakemere (Herefordshire). The first is from Old English boga ‘bow, river bend’ + lēah. The second is from the Old English personal name Buga + + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The third is named with Old English bula ‘bull’, perhaps a byname (see Bull ) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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