When Charles Lewis Myer was born on 20 October 1869, in Saugerties, Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Cornelius Myer, was 40 and his mother, Nelly Catharine Whitaker, was 36. He lived in Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States in 1870.
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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 set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English, of Norman French origin: occupational name from Old French mire ‘physician’ (Latinized as medicus). Compare Mayer and Mee .
English: topographic name from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr), denoting a person who lived at or near a marsh.
Americanized form of German Meyer , Mayer , or Maier .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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