Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Marsh was born in 1882, in Michigan, United States, her father, Joseph Norman Marsh, was 27 and her mother, Irene Thomas, was 22. She married Leonard Cleveland Higley on 21 September 1901, in Cassopolis, LaGrange Township, Cass, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Edwardsburg, Ontwa Township, Cass, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Ontwa Township, Cass, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 26 July 1957, at the age of 75, and was buried in Adamsville, Ontwa Township, Cass, Michigan, United States.
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- Jessie Higly in household of Leonard Higly, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jessie Marsh, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Jessie Marsh Higley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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