When James Crawford Biggs was born on 29 August 1872, in Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Biggs, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Arrington Cooper, was 23. He married Marjie Campbell Jordan on 7 February 1906, in Durham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Neuse, Wake, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Neuse Township, Wake, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 30 January 1960, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States.
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In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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.
English: variant of Bigg , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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