When Harriet Emily Sumner was born on 24 February 1872, in Liberty Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States, her father, William Morris Sumner, was 22 and her mother, Adaline Rebecca Ogborn, was 22. She married Charles Emmet Penquite on 24 December 1894. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Deerfield, Deerfield Township, Warren, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Mason, Deerfield Township, Warren, Ohio, United States in 1917. She died on 2 March 1917, at the age of 45, and was buried in Clayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: occupational name for an official who was responsible for ensuring the appearance of witnesses in court, from Middle English som(p)nour(e) ‘summoner’ (Old French somoneor, semoneor).
History: William Sumner came to Dorchester, MA, from England c. 1635. His descendants include US Senator Charles Sumner, a major force in the struggle to end slavery, who was born in 1811 in Boston.
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