Brief Life History of William M
When William M Harden was born on 22 December 1868, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William M. Harden, was 22 and his mother, Lucy Jane Osborne Fiske, was 17. He died on 10 November 1890, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- William M Harden in household of Mary P Hayward, "United States Census, 1870"
- William M. Harden, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- William M. Jr. Harden, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
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World Events (8)
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: variant of Arden with prosthetic H-.
English: habitational name, either from Haredene Wood in East Tisbury (Wiltshire), or from Haredon (in Ugborough, Devon). The first placename probably derives from Old English hara ‘hare’ + denu ‘valley’. The second is from Old English hara + dūn ‘hare hill’.
English: variant of Harding .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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