Brief Life History of Phillip Henry
When Phillip Henry Sheridan was born on 29 May 1868, in Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Sheridan, was 33 and his mother, Susan Strope, was 29. He married Nancy Jane Russell on 24 May 1893, in Saguache, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Fremont, Colorado, United States in 1950. He died on 3 April 1957, in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States.
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- Philip H Sheridan, "United States 1950 Census"
- Phillip Sheridan, "Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995"
- Phillip Henry Sheridan, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1876 · Colorado becomes a State
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sirideáin ‘descendant of Sirideán’, a personal name possibly akin to sirim ‘to seek’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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