Brief Life History of Ellen M
When Ellen M Stinson was born on 17 March 1846, in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, her father, Hiram Stinson, was 31 and her mother, Aurelia J. Dinsmore, was 28. She married John Findlay Danskin in 1877, in Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. She died on 10 April 1932, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86.
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- Ella Dankin in household of John F Dankin, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ella Stinson, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Ella Stinson im Eintrag für Robert Henderson Danskin, „Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924“
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1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition
"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sagadahoc, Maine, United States
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.
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English: shortened form of Stevenson . Compare Steenson and Stimpson .
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