When George Washington Higgins was born on 8 October 1842, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Moses Higgins, was 43 and his mother, Betsy Mitchell, was 42. He married Anna Bell Smith on 29 August 1877, in Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Bunker Hill, Russell, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Denver, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 24 June 1933, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1861, Denver City was incorporated into the territory as an official city.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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