Brief Life History of Edward Friedrich Wilhelm
When Edward Friedrich Wilhelm Tigges was born on 23 November 1873, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, his father, Ernst Wilhelm Tigges, was 37 and his mother, Fredericka Elizabeth Jasper, was 24. He married Emma Dorothea Wilhelmina Mertens on 11 August 1896, in Allen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 21 July 1950, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States.
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- Edward Tigges, "United States Census, 1940"
- Edward W Tigges, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Edward William Tigges, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
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North German: variant of Tiegs .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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