When Alexander Davis Goodding was born on 28 November 1851, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States, his father, George Rogers Goodding, was 22 and his mother, Eliza Drury Davis, was 25. He married Estella Etta Snow on 27 November 1887, in Macon, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Lyda Township, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Lyda, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 7 February 1923, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Montana was made a territory by President Abraham Lincoln on May 26 1864. The capital was Virginia City and remained the capital until 1894, when Helena became the capital.
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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Gütlein or Güthlein or Güthling: status name for a smallholder, from Middle High German guot ‘landholding, small farm’ + the diminutive suffix -lein-li, -lin or, alternatively, a nickname for a good and kindly person, from Middle High German güetlich, later changed as though derived from a personal name composed with ancient Germanic god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’.
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