Brief Life History of William Hagerman
When William Hagerman Shields was born in 1868, in Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph Shields, was 44 and his mother, Mary Jane Tarr, was 33. He married Estella Fisher about 1888, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Jackson Township, Shelby, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 March 1952, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84.
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- William H Shields, "United States Census, 1930"
- William Hagerman Shields, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- W H Shields, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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 Shield 1 (and perhaps occasionally 2, 3, and 4) with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in or near some huts, or habitational, from a place so named, such as North Shields (Northumberland) and South Shields (Durham), though these are unlikely to be the main sources of the surname.
Irish: shortened form of O'Shields , an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail; see Shiel .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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