Brief Life History of Emma J
When Emma J Merritt was born on 7 March 1868, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, her father, William Wesley Merritt, was 36 and her mother, Catherine, was 32. She lived in Rye, Westchester, New York, United States in 1870. She died in 1950, in New York, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Emma J Merritt, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emma Jane Lang, "New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909"
- William W Merritt in the 1870 United States Federal Census
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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.
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: variant of Merriott , Marriott , or Marritt. The last of these is most often a variant of Merriott or Marriott , but possibly in some instances from Middle English Marret or Merret, a syncopated form of Margaret, Mergeret.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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