Max Althaus

Maleabout 1869–

Brief Life History of Max

Max Althaus was born about 1869, in Kentucky, United States. He had at least 1 son with Anna Wiese.

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Max Althaus
1869–
Anna Wiese
1872–
William George Althaus
1894–1962

Sources (1)

  • Max Althaus in entry for Willie Althaus and Ruby Bates, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

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Children (1)

World Events (3)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 1

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

Age 1

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.

1892 · The Radio is invented

Age 23

Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892

Name Meaning

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic):

topographic or habitational name referring to a house known as ‘the old house’, from German altes Haus ‘old house’.

habitational name from a place called Althaus(en), for example in Hesse.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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