Brief Life History of Claude William
When Claude William Higgins was born on 31 July 1901, in Pike, Indiana, United States, his father, Josiah Joseph Higgins, was 38 and his mother, Margaret Alice Grubb, was 41. He married Tilda Frances Andrews on 14 September 1935, in Indiana, United States. He lived in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1940 and West Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 4 April 1992, in Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States.
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- Claude W Higgins, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Claude Higgins - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Claude Higgins
- Claude W Higgins, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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