Henrietta Fellar Huggins

Brief Life History of Henrietta Fellar

When Henrietta Fellar Huggins was born on 23 July 1843, her father, Rev Morrison Huggins, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Fleming, was 26. She married Charles Albert Vail on 11 May 1865, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Chemung, New York, United States in 1850 and Catharine, Schuyler, New York, United States in 1855. She died on 10 June 1916, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72.

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Family Time Line

Charles Albert Vail
1841–1899
Henrietta Fellar Huggins
1843–1916
Marriage: 11 May 1865
Charles Morrison Huggins Vail
1866–1949
Anna Henrietta Vail
1870–1962
Edward Chaney Vail
1872–
Albert Barnes Vail
1876–1981
Henry Flemingo Vail
1881–1934

Sources (18)

  • Henrietta H Vail in household of Edward Vail, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Henrietta H. Vail, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Henrietta F Huggins, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and is open 22 hours per day . 

1863

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

Name Meaning

English (East Anglia): from the Middle English personal name Hugin, an Old French diminutive of Hugh , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Occasionally the name may also arise from Middle English Huggen, a West Midlands dialect genitive form of the Middle English personal name Hugg (see Hug ), synonymous with Hughes , which has the more common -s genitival suffix.

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

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