Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Naffziger was born on 30 June 1872, in Danvers, McLean, Illinois, United States, his father, John Naffziger, was 28 and his mother, Marie Imhof, was 25. He married Rose I Beck on 27 January 1910. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Mackinaw, Tazewell, Illinois, United States for about 5 years and Mackinaw Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 7 October 1961, in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Park Lawn Cemetery, Danvers, McLean, Illinois, United States.
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- Alfred Naffziger, "United States Census, 1910"
- Alfred Naffziger, "Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times", 1914-2007"
- Alfred Naffziger in entry for Hazel B Patton, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German: variant of Nafzger and Nafziger and, in North America, (also) an altered form of these. The surname Naffziger is very rare in Germany.
History: This is one of the variants of the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, most commonly spelled Nafziger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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