When James Cartwell Davidson was born on 29 October 1869, in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States, his father, Henry A. Davidson, was 38 and his mother, Cassandra A. Crockett, was 22. He married Elizabeth Alice Barberie in 1901, in West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Beaver Pond District, Mercer, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Mercer, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 November 1939, in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Brush Fork, Mercer, West Virginia, United States.
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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.
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.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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