Brief Life History of Arthur James
When Arthur James Murkland was born on 24 September 1869, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Murkland, was 28 and his mother, Margaret E. Shearer, was 31. He married Athel Mary Charlton on 16 August 1899, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 27 January 1942, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Arthur J Markland, "United States Census, 1910"
- Arthur J. Muckland, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Arthur J. Murkland, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in the parish of Wigan (now in Greater Manchester). The placename appears to derive from Old English mearc ‘mark, boundary’ + lanu ‘lane, narrow road’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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