When LeRoy Luther Tiger was born on 28 January 1888, in Waverly, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, his father, John Newton Tiger, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Malick, was 40. He married Ivy Pearl Snyder on 12 June 1912, in Waverly, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Boulder, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 21 October 1943, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Mountview Cemetery, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States.
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1888–1943 Male
1886–1984 Female
1915–1984 Female
1920–1987 Male
1922–2007 Female
1852–1928 Male
1847–1911 Female
1884–1960 Male
1886–1908 Female
1888–1943 Male
1889–1939 Female
Native American (Creek): from a translation into English of the Muscogee Creek clan name Katcvlke (‘Tiger clan’), derived from a word meaning ‘tiger (i.e. cougar)’.
Native American: translation into English (and shortening) of any other personal name based on a word, such as Lakota Sioux igmu, meaning generically ‘cat’, but more specifically denoting a ‘tiger (i.e. panther)’. Compare Panther .
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Tiger, Yiddish tiger ‘tiger’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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