When Thomas Cecil Mercer was born on 9 July 1868, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, his father, Asa Shinn Mercer, was 29 and his mother, Anne Elizabeth Stephens, was 31. He lived in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1870 and Pierce, Washington, United States in 1871. He died on 18 March 1883, in Henrietta, Clay, Texas, United States, at the age of 14, and was buried in Henrietta, Clay, Texas, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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.
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.
English and Catalan: occupational name for a merchant, from Old French mercier, merchier (see Mercier ). In Middle English the term was applied particularly to someone who dealt in textiles, especially the more costly and luxurious fabrics such as silks, satin, and velvet.
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