Brief Life History of Florence W
When Florence W Sprague was born on 28 March 1882, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Edward Price Sprague, was 34 and her mother, Sophia Elizabeth Phillips, was 23. She married Henry Tiggelbeck on 22 June 1918, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. She lived in Zephyrhills, Pasco, Florida, United States in 1935 and Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 13 July 1957, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Highland Hills, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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- Florence Tiggelbeck, "Florida State Census, 1935"
- Florence W. Sprage, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Florence W. Sprague Tiggelbeck, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1887 · The Michelson-Morley Experiment
In an attempt to detect a medium of space called aether, Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley started to experiment to see if there was any relative motion of matter through light waves. The result was negative and is generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the aether theory. Even though it has failed multiple times, the same type of experiment has been repeated many times with higher amounts of sensitivity to the sensors.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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