Brief Life History of Dora
When Dora Sylvester was born in 1866, in Louisiana, United States, her father, Chas. Sylvester, was 39 and her mother, Mrs Victoria Sylvester, was 37. She lived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1880.
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- Dora Sylvester in household of Chas. Sylvester, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1868 · Louisiana Is Readmitted Into the Union
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English and German: from the Middle English and Latin personal name Silvester ‘dweller in the forest’ (a derivative of silva ‘wood’). The name was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great, and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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