Brief Life History of Olive L.
When Olive L. Ovitt was born on 4 January 1869, in Sheldon, Franklin, Vermont, United States, her father, Silas Briggs Ovitt, was 53 and her mother, Alvira E. Sweet, was 48. She married Orville Alvah Putnam on 26 September 1888, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 1 May 1915, in Enosburg Center, Enosburg, Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Greens Corners Cemetery, Swanton, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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- Olive Ovitt, "United States Census, 1870"
- Olive L Ovitt Putnam, "Find A Grave Index"
- Olive Ovitt in entry for Martha Putman Peno, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (8)
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Ovett (see Oviatt ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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