When James Thomas Lance was born on 6 January 1865, in Walker, Texas, United States, his father, Lewis Lance, was 41 and his mother, Temperance Tomlinson, was 19. He married Ellen Budge on 30 November 1886, in Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Rock Creek, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880. He died on 1 March 1924, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1866: Idaho, Idaho Territory, United States 1869: Lemhi, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Lemhi, Idaho, United States
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
English: from the ancient Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land, territory’ (for example, Lambert ), but later used as an independent name. It was introduced to England by the Normans, for whom it was a popular name among the ruling classes, perhaps partly because of association with Old French lance ‘lance, spear’ (see 2 below).
French: metonymic occupational name for a soldier who carried a lance, or a nickname for a skilled fighter, from Old French lance ‘lance, spear’.
Americanized form of German Lanz and Lenz .
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