Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Gilman was born about 1869, in New York, United States, his father, Zebulon Gilman, was 49 and his mother, Mary Lavalley, was 44.
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- Charles Gilman in household of Zebulon Gilman, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Gilman - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Charles Gilman
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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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from a personal name, Old French Guillemin, Anglo-Norman French Willemin, pet forms of Guillelmes, Guillaumes, and Willelmes (see William ).
Altered form of German Gillmann (see Gillman ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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