Emma F. Perkins

Female19 October 1869–1956

Brief Life History of Emma F.

When Emma F. Perkins was born on 19 October 1869, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Walter George Perkins, was 23 and her mother, Mary Frances Blaisdell, was 18. She lived in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died in 1956, at the age of 87, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter George Perkins
1846–1927
Mary Frances Blaisdell
1851–1912
Emma F. Perkins
1869–1956
Walter Belmont Perkins
1871–1921
John Leroy Perkins
1876–1957
Fannie B Perkins
1878–1957
Willard Meredith Perkins
1880–
Charles Everett Perkins
1883–1886
Archie Clinton Perkins
1886–1956
Ruth Flanders Perkins
1889–1974

Sources (8)

  • Emma F Perkins, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Emma F Perkins, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Emma F. Perkins, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"

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World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 1

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

Age 1

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.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 27

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: patronymic from Perkin , also found throughout mid and south Wales.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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