When Lorenzo Dowell Wilkerson was born on 20 October 1868, in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States, his father, Justice Augustus Wilkerson, was 20 and his mother, Mary Pauline Whittington, was 25. He married Mary Lavonia Taylor on 9 August 1888, in Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Benton Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Chester, Randolph, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 14 December 1929, in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, 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.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
English (East Anglia and South East Midlands): from Middle English Wilkeson, a shortened form of Wilkinson , ‘son of Wilkin or young William’. The -r- is intrusive.
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