When William Newton Fox was born on 10 December 1869, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, James Henry Fox, was 33 and his mother, Cynthia Elizabeth Crader, was 25. He married Clara Ellen Stratton on 27 September 1889, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lorance Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States for about 60 years. He died on 3 January 1935, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Marble Hill, Bollinger, Missouri, 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: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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