Brief Life History of Alger Leland
When Alger Leland Warren was born on 12 June 1869, in Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, his father, Josiah Holden Warren, was 33 and his mother, Olive Maud Foster, was 25. He lived in Fairlee, Orange, Vermont, United States for about 40 years. He died on 6 June 1942, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hardwick, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.
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- Alger L Warren, "United States Census, 1930"
- Alger L. Warren, "Find a Grave Index"
- Alger Leland Warren, "Vermont, Town Records, 1850-2005"
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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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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