Brief Life History of Isabella I
When Isabella I Matthews was born in 1870, in Massachusetts, United States, her father, William H. Matthews, was 32 and her mother, Eunice L. Spinney, was 25. She married Charles Henry Ramsdell on 1 September 1892, in Somerville, Somerville, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years.
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- Isabelle S Ramsdell in household of Chas H Ramsdell, "United States Census, 1900"
- Belle S. Matthews, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Isabella S. Matthew in entry for Harris Matthew Ramsdell, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
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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.
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.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus, from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž, from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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