Jennie Wiggins

Brief Life History of Jennie

When Jennie Wiggins was born on 15 August 1862, in Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Charles W. Wiggins, was 38 and her mother, Mary Ellen Jacoby, was 31. She married Amos Henry James on 15 February 1883, in Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Lakeland, Barron, Wisconsin, United States in 1905 and Dewey, Burnett, Wisconsin, United States in 1910. She died on 19 February 1917, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Shell Lake, Washburn, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Gordon
1858–1925
Jennie Wiggins
1862–1917
Marriage: 20 July 1890
Charles M Gordon
1892–1926
Edna Alice Gordon
1893–1968
Raymond Sylvester Gordon
1896–1961
Lillie Gordon
1899–1904
Violet Gordon
1901–1904

Sources (11)

  • Jennie Wiggins in household of Charles Wiggins, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Jennie Wiggins, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
  • Jennie Wiggins, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented

A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.

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

English (of Norman origin): variant of Wiggin with the addition of genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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