When Mary Edith Riggins was born on 30 November 1896, in Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States, her father, Emanuel Riggins, was 51 and her mother, Rosaline Euphrasia Thompson, was 47. She married Anthony Warren Austin on 15 July 1919, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States for about 5 years and Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1950. She died on 28 November 1978, in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 81.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Possibly an altered form of English, Scottish, and Irish Higgins , by misdivision of a personal name and surname pair such as Peter Higgins.
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