Brief Life History of Joseph Manhatten
When Joseph Manhatten Wood was born on 12 November 1869, in Ocean, Osijek-Baranja, Croatia, his father, George Wood, was 40 and his mother, Jane Thompson, was 36. He lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died on 30 June 1889, in DeSoto, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 19.
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- Manhattan Wood in household of George Wood, "United States Census, 1870"
- J Manhatten Wood in household of Jane Wood, "United States Census, 1880"
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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.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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