Albert Clingman Wild

Brief Life History of Albert Clingman

When Albert Clingman Wild was born on 10 February 1879, in Burningtown, Macon, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Manning Wild, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Matilda Bryson, was 32. He married Hattie Georgia Stahn on 18 June 1906, in Cripple Creek, Teller, Colorado, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 48, El Paso, Colorado, United States for about 5 years and Eaton, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 3 March 1958, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.

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Albert Clingman Wild
1879–1958
Lena Davenport
1880–1962
Marriage: 26 October 1919

Sources (14)

  • Albert C Wild, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Albert C Wild & Lena Lott, Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006," 26 Oct 1919.
  • Albert Clingman Wild, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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World Events (8)

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.

1899

Historical Boundaries: 1899: Teller, Colorado, United States

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).

English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.

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

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