Brief Life History of Lucinda
When Lucinda Harcourt was born in 1870, in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States, her father, Silas John Harcourt, was 25 and her mother, Mary Emily Clark, was 24. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Geneva Township, Midland, Michigan, United States in 1880. She died in 1885, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 15.
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- Lucinda Harcourt in household of Silas Harcourt, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lilu Harcourt in household of Silas Harcourt, "United States Census, 1880"
- Silas Harcourt, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (7)
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of the places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French cour(t) ‘court, farmyard’ (see Court ) with an obscure first element. This surname is very rare in France.
English: habitational name from either of two places in Shropshire named Harcourt. The one near Cleobury Mortimer gets the name from Old English heafocere ‘hawker, falconer’ + cot ‘hut, cottage’; the one near Wem has as its first element Old English hearpere (see Harper ).
History: The surname of French origin (see 1 above) is listed along with the equally rare or even extinct variants or altered forms Haraucourt, Herancourt, and Héraucourt in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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