Brief Life History of Joseph Taylor
When Joseph Taylor Shears was born on 27 August 1868, in Milford Township, Butler, Ohio, United States, his father, James Shears, was 44 and his mother, Catharine Marshall, was 38. He married Nelle Brock on 6 June 1901, in Butler, Ohio, United States. He died on 19 November 1936, in Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Darrtown, Milford Township, Butler, Ohio, United States.
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- Joseph T Shears in household of Sallie Shears, "United States Census, 1930"
- Joseph M. Shears, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Joseph Taylor Shears, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Shear or Shire , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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