When George Dewey Higgins was born on 11 December 1898, in Seward, Nebraska, United States, his father, James Marshall Higgins, was 35 and his mother, Katherine Ann Mirara Baker, was 34. He married Evelyn R Fisher on 3 July 1920, in Deuel, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Chappell, Deuel, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Sidney, Cheyenne, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years. He died on 14 April 1958, at the age of 59, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sidney, Cheyenne, Nebraska, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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 .
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