Brief Life History of Caroline Muzzy
When Caroline Muzzy Dresser was born on 6 May 1869, in Castine, Cornwall, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Wentworth Dresser, was 42 and her mother, Mary Moulton Adams, was 38. She married Charles Bryant Witherle M.D. on 1 August 1901, in Castine, Cornwall, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1900 and Portland Ward 5, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1910. She died in 1942, at the age of 73.
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- Caroline D Witheck in household of Charles B Witheck, "United States Census, 1910"
- Caroline Dresser, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Carolone M Dresser, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
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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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
Name Meaning
German: eastern variant of Drescher .
English (Durham and Yorkshire): occupational name for someone who dressed or finished cloth, from Middle English dresser, dress(o)ur ‘director, guide; dresser or finisher of textiles etc.’ Compare Fuller .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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