When Julius Billeter was born on 14 October 1869, in Igis, Graubünden, Switzerland, his father, Julius Billeter Sr, was 26 and his mother, Barbara Zweifel, was 26. He married Marie Emilie Wilker on 24 June 1891, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 9 July 1957, in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
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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.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt.
Swiss German: habitational name for someone from Bilten (formerly Biliton) in the canton Glarus.
German: occupational name for a military quartermaster from French billet, here ‘certificate or voucher’ (held by soldiers to be given lodgings), a loanword dating back to the Thirty Years War.
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Possible Related NamesThe booth for Switzerland at the World Conference on Records held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City in August 1980 was the setting for probably the most unexpected of all the experiences I had at t …
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