Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Bigler was born on 9 April 1888, in Shumway, Navajo, Arizona, United States, his father, Jacob Arnold Bigler, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Rosetta Krebs, was 28. He married Cora Loemma Vail on 4 November 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 5 September 1917, in Tabiona, Duchesne, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States.
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- Jessi Bigler in household of Rosetta Bigler, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jesse Bigler, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Jesse Bigler, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1893
Historical Boundaries 1893: Apache, Arizona Territory, United States 1895: Navajo, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Navajo, Arizona, United States
1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Name Meaning
South German: topographic name for someone who lived by a curve in a street or river, or in a nook, from Middle High German biegel ‘nook, corner’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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