When Nellie Sophronia Rigby was born on 13 January 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Seth Thomas Rigby, was 28 and her mother, Jennette Cook, was 24. She died on 28 July 1887, in her hometown, at the age of 6, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .
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