When Dora E Lehman was born in July 1869, her father, John Philip Lehman, was 38 and her mother, Lavena Keiser, was 32. She married Charles Edward Spotts in 1889. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Hepburn Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1892, at the age of 23, and was buried in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
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.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Americanized form of German Lehmann . Compare Layman , Leaman , Leeman , and Leman .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Lehmann .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originating in the Emmental in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, from where many of its bearers moved in the early 18th century to the Palatinate in Germany, Alsace in France, and (finally) to PA in the US. Its original Swiss German form is Lehmann. Among the American Mennonites it is also established in the altered forms Layman and Leaman.
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