Brief Life History of Frank
When Frank Foster was born on 15 August 1868, in Clinton, Indiana, United States, his father, Jimeson Jayhew Foster, was 35 and his mother, Evalyne Stafford, was 35. He married Lilly Jane Coleman Lewellen on 22 January 1898, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Washington Township, Boone, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 August 1956, in Lebanon, Center Township, Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Frank Foster, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Frank Foster - Government record: birth: August 1868; Indiana, United States
- Frank Foster, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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