Brief Life History of James Elmer
When James Elmer Quigley was born on 11 October 1873, in Kansas, United States, his father, Morris Anderson Quigley, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Erveline Sevier, was 23. He lived in Morrill, Brown, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 23 February 1901, in Robinson, Brown, Kansas, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Robinson, Brown, Kansas, United States.
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- James Quigley in household of M A Quigley, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: James E. Quigley - Government record: birth-name: James E. Quigley
- James E Quigley Death
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World Events (8)
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.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
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
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Declan, Eamonn, Cathal, Clancy, Colm, Fionnuala, James Patrick, John Patrick, Kiera, Kieran.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coigligh ‘descendant of Coigleach’, a byname apparently representing a simplified form of coigealach ‘like a distaff, untidy person’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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