Brief Life History of Linden Gorden
When Linden Gorden Rigby was born on 7 August 1895, in Palms, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, Reverend Nicholas Linden Rigby, was 56 and his mother, Jennie I Sprague, was 22. He married June Rosalind Irish on 29 November 1917, in Laguna Beach, Orange, California, United States. He died on 11 July 1975, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Linden G Rigby, "United States Census, 1940"
- Linden Gordon Rigby, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- L G Rigby in entry for June Rosalind Rigby, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
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.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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