Celeste Pinkston

Female1870–from 1905 to 1906

Brief Life History of Celeste

Celeste Pinkston was born in 1870, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States. She died from 1905 to 1906.

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    World Events (3)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 0

    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 0

    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.

    1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded

    Age 36

    The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from Pinxton in Derbyshire. The secondelement is Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; thefirst may be a personal name, Penec.

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

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