Wilhemina Hahn

Female20 November 1868–4 January 1907

Brief Life History of Wilhemina

Wilhemina Hahn was born on 20 November 1868. She died on 4 January 1907, in Maryland, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Sources (1)

  • Minnie Hahn Sewell, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (3)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 2

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

Age 2

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.

1872 · The First National Park

Age 4

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

Name Meaning

1 German: (i) nickname from Middle High German hane ‘cockerel’, denoting a flamboyant, conceited, or sexually active man. (ii) relationship name, patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Johannes.

2 Jewish (Ashkenazic): handout name or ornamental name from German Hahn ‘cockerel’.

Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016

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