Brief Life History of Monroe H
When Monroe H Colson was born on 4 October 1869, in Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, Martin Colson, was 40 and his mother, Charlotte Mary Nickerson, was 28. He married Mabel C Baker on 11 November 1891, in Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 23 June 1908, in Hampden, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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- Monroe Colson in household of Martin Colson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Monroe H Colson - Government record: birth-name: Monroe H Colson
- Monroe H. Colson, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
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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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
patronymic from the Middle English personal name Col(le), Coule (usually a pet form of Nicholas ) + -son, hence ‘son of Col(le) or Coule’.
variant of Colston .
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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