Brief Life History of William Harvey
When William Harvey Lucas was born on 31 January 1868, in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Horatio Atwood Lucas, was 40 and his mother, Mary Evans Leach, was 24. He married Susan Dexter Packard on 12 May 1893, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 20 April 1940, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- William Lucas, "United States Census, 1920"
- William Harvey Lucas, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- William Harvey Lucas, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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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.
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
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ (compare Lucio ). The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to Saint Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Loukas , Hungarian Lukács (see Lukacs ), German, Dutch, etc. Lukas , Polish Łukasz, Czech and Slovak Lukáš, Czech Lukeš, Slovenian and Croatian Lukež (see Lukes ). Compare Luke .
Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas ).
History: Jacques Lucas dit Lépine from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in Calvados, France, married Françoise Capel in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1653.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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