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Year:
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1890
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Meanwhile:
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At
Wounded Knee,
approximately 300 Lakota Sioux are killed, including the targeted victim, Big
Foot. Twenty-five American soldiers were also found dead and 39 more were
wounded, most by their own shrapnel and bullets.
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Jacob
Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, exposing the wretched living
conditions of people in the slums of New
York City.
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The
Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad Company finishes construction of the 57
mile rail extension from Salisbury, MD to Claiborne,
MD, which opened for service
September 1. Travelers from Baltimore and the Western Shore of Maryland could
now take the steamboat Cambridge to
the train station at Claiborne, and ride either the Lem Showell or the
Baltimore Flyer all the way to Ocean
City. Prior to this,
ferry service to connect to Ocean City had been from Baltimore
to Salisbury.
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Year:
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1890 Dorchester Co.
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Clarence Higgins
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Clarence Higgins (Age: 19; Race: White; Marital Status:
Single; Residence: Vienna)
married Mary E. Webb, 5 Dec 1890 in East New Market
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Source:
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USGenweb
Archives Marriage Records 1866-1906 Dorchester County Maryland,
contributed by Barbara & Steve Woolston
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Year:
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1890 Talbot Co.
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James W. Higgins
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By 1890, married Mary E. Smith, dau of David. N. Smith
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Source:
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Will
of David N. Smith, 1890
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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Married - James W Higgins 21 white Talbot Co. single farmer
and Mary E Smith 20 white QA Co. single March 4, 1873, Charles F. Sheppard
minister Caroline Co.
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Source: RootsWeb.com
- MDQUEENA mailing list
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Year:
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1890 Talbot Co.
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Martha E. Higgins, Robert T. Higgins
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18 Dec 1890. Martha E. and Robert T. Higgins to The St.
Michaels Savings Bank of Talbot
County... mortgage
foreclosure for debt of $400 for lot in St. Michaels purchased in 1888 and
noted in Land Records as Liber/Folio 110/24.
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Source:
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Talbot County Land
Records 1890 Liber/Folio 114/63
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Year:
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1890 Talbot Co.
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Robert Higgins
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"Gazette", 20 Dec 1890. "Robert Higgins is
building a dwelling house on Miller’s extension."
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Source:
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Talbot County
Newspaper Abstracts,
St. Michaels News Items, Wm. G. Bodenstein
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Year:
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1891 Talbot Co.
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Daniel J. Higgins, Henrietta G. Higgins, Effie A. Higgins,
Charles T. Higgins
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Buried Olivet Cemetery St. Michaels, MD. Section 15 Lot 114. "Daniel J. Higgins Born 27 Aug 1843
Departed this life 3 Sep 1891"
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Source:
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Olivet Cemetery, St.
Michaels, MD (Bernice Leonard)
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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Other stones in lot are for Laona Haddaway (no dates),
Henrietta G. Higgins (died 8 Aug 1915 age 68), Effie A. "dau of H.G. and
D.J. Higgins" (17 Nov 1868 - 10 Sep 1899), Charles T. "son of
Daniel J. and Henrietta G. Higgins (died 23 Mar 1895 age 24)
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Source:
The
HIGGINS/GIBMEYER Home Page
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Year:
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1891 Queen Anne's Co.
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Wm. F. Higgins
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Wm. F. Higgins married the daughter of Geo. Newman of Wilmington, DE.
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Source:
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"Centreville Record", 31 Jan 1891. Obits and
Marriages in Maryland
Newspapers Queen Anne's County 1891-1892, Trish Surles
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Year:
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1892
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Meanwhile:
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Ellis
Island opens in New York City.
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Year:
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1892 Dorchester Co.
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James Higgins
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James Higgins (Age: 36; Race: White; Marital Status: Single;
Residence: Cambridge) married Blanch Y.
Richards, 20 Dec 1892 in Cambridge
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Source:
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USGenweb
Archives Marriage Records 1866-1906 Dorchester County Maryland,
contributed by Barbara & Steve Woolston
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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Dec 20 1892. James Higgins and Blanch Yerbury
Richards married in Christ
Church, Min. Jas L
Bryan
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Source:
Church Records of Great Choptank Parish
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The marriage of James Higgins, Esq., of the Cambridge bar, and
Miss Blanche Yerbury Rickards, is announced to take place in Christ Church,
Cambridge, at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 20th, 1892.
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Source:
"Denton
Journal". 17 Dec 1892
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Mr. James Higgins and Miss Blanche Y. Richards were married Cambridge on Tuesday.
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Source:
"Denton
Journal". 24 Dec 1892
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Year:
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1892 Talbot Co.
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Martha E. Higgins
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12 Jan 1892. Martha E. Higgins to George W. and Mollie E.
Parrott... sale of lot located 15 feet south of the St. Michaels town line,
originally purchased by Martha E. Higgins from John Miller in 1888... $50
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Source:
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Talbot County Land
Records 1892 Liber/Folio 116/188
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Year:
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1892 Caroline Co.
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Allie Higgins
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A leap Year Dance at Cordova.
The social festivities of the winter season in this vicinity were
gaily inaugurated last Friday evening, when the young ladies, availing
themselves of the year’s privilege, gave a Leap Year Dance in the town hall.
The hall was very tastefully festooned with evergreens, from which were
suspended numerous Japanese lanterns, lending a charm to the beautiful scene
of the merry twirling dancers. Among those on the floor were: …, Miss Allie
Higgins, in lavender cashmere with white chiffon trimmings; …
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Source:
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"Denton
Journal". 17 Dec 1892
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Year:
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1893
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Meanwhile:
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Chicago's World Fair
opens.
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Year:
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1893 Talbot Co.
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Wm. Higgins
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Cordova [News]. Moving is over and a number of our farmers
have moved a long distance… Wm. Higgins, below St. Michaels, …
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Source:
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"Denton
Journal". 14 Jan 1893
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Year:
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1893 Talbot Co.
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Owen W. Higins, Henrietta Higgins
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29 Jun 1893. J. Henry Reis and M. Helen Reis his wife... in
consideration of the sum of $50.30... grant unto Owen W. Higgins of Talbot
County... parcel of land situate lying and being in Talbot
County...[beginning] at a boundary at the waters edge on the line of the land
conveyed unto John W (N?). Haddaway by aforesaid J. Henry Reis... and running
westerly with the line of said John W (N?). Haddaway’s land ... containing
twp rods and ten square yards of land more or less, it being a part of that
farm or tract of land called a part of Ball’s Resurvey
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Source:
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Talbot County Land
Records 1893 Liber/Folio 119/219
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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29 Jun 1893. Owen W. Higgins mortgages to The Workingmen’s
Building and Loan Association of St. Michaels the property purchased from J.
Henry Reis... for $100... [and] to pay The Workingmen’s Building and Loan
Association of St. Michaels the weekly sum of Thirty nine cents on every
Saturday night for a term of ten years.
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Source: Talbot County
Land Records 1893
Liber/Folio 119/220
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Year:
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1894
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Meanwhile:
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Economic
depression, which began with the Panic of 1893, leaves 1
in 5 American workers without a job.
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A
group of protestor's demanding economic reform marches on Washington in 1894. Known as Coxey's Army, they are
forcibly driven from the capital.
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Year:
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1894 Dorchester Co.
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Mrs. Isabella Higgins, James Higgins
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"Mrs. Isabella Higgins, relict of the late James Higgins,
died 5 May 1894 at her home in Linkwood. Internment at East New Market Cemetery."
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Source:
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"Democrat & News", 12 May 1894. - "Dorchester County Genealogical Society",
Vol. 5-1-9
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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Isabella Higgins - age 68 years Burial: May 7, 1894
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Source: Great
Choptank Parish Register 1884-1904
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Year:
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1894 Talbot Co.
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Robert T. Higgins, Martha E. Higgins
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1 May 1894. Robert T. and Martha E. Higgins to George W.
Parrott... sale of lot located 50 feet south of the St. Michaels town line,
originally purchased from John Miller in 1888...$50
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Source:
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Talbot County Land
Records 1894 Liber/Folio 120/291
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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13 Jan 1896. George W. and Mollie E. Parrott to Martha E.
Higgins... sale of lot located 15 feet south of the St. Michaels town line,
originally purchased from Robert T. and Martha E. Higgins in 1894
(Liber/Folio 120/291)... $50
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Source: Talbot County Land
Records 1896 Liber/Folio 125/135
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26 Aug 1897. Martha E. and Robert T. Higgins to Clarence E.
Plummer... sale of part of same lot originally purchased from John Miller in
1888 and also part of the land sold and then repurchased from George
Parrott... $100
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Source: Talbot County Land
Records 1897 Liber/Folio 127/335
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Year:
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1894 Talbot Co.
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Sarah Agnes Higgins, William H. Higgins, Lenora Higgins
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5 Jul 1894. Trinity Cathedral, Easton. Sarah Agnes Higgins, born 9 May
1894, Parents: William H. and Lenora Higgins. Sick.
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Source:
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According to the Church, Vol. II,
Trish Surles
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Year:
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1894 Dorchester Co.
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J. A. Higgins
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Brick Hotel Arrivals.
Among the arrivals at the Brick Hotel this week were: …, J. A.,
Higgins, Vienna,
…
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Source:
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"Denton
Journal". 6 Oct 1894
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Year:
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1895
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Meanwhile:
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Oscar
Wilde publishes "The Importance of Being Earnest"
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Year:
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1895 Dorchester Co.
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Ellen Yerberry Higgins
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age 14 months Death: Jul. 4, 1895 Burial: Jul. 6, 1895
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Source:
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Great
Choptank Parish Register 1884-1904
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Year:
|
1895 Dorchester Co.
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James Higgins
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age 3 months Burial: Dec. 27, 1895
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Source:
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Great
Choptank Parish Register 1884-1904
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Year:
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1895 Caroline Co.
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Allie K. Higgins
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After an intermission of four months
the public schools of this county will reopen next Monday, and if we may
judge by the corps of teachers great results may this year be expected.
Following is the list: …, Boonsboro – Miss Allie Higgins, …
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Source:
|
"Denton
Journal". 7 Sep 1895
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Clues/Cross
Reference:
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The fall and winter meetings of the
county Teachers’ Association have been combined, and a two days’ meeting will
be held in Denton Academy on Friday and Saturday next, December 20th
and 21st. the following program has been arranged: … paper,
“Beginnings”, by Miss Allie Higgins, and general discussion.
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Source: "Denton Journal". 14 Dec 1895
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School News. The school at Boonsboro has purchased a new
library. Miss Allie K. Higgins is teacher.
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Source: "Denton Journal". 24 Oct 1896
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The Caroline county public schools
will likely open on Monday, September 20th. The following teachers
have been appointed: … Ridgely – Misses Estelle Rose, Allie K. Higgins, and
Mary J. Fisher, as assistants.
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Source: "Denton Journal". 28 Aug 1897
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The [school] commissioners appointed
… Miss Allie K. Higgins, second assistant, … of Ridgely public schools.
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Source: "Denton Journal". 6 Aug 1898
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Miss Allie Higgins, of St. Michaels,
and a teacher at the Ridgely
Academy, is a guest of
Mrs. William F. Jump.
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Source: "Denton Journal". 20 Aug 1898
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The most interesting event of the
school year was the teachers’ institute held here this week… The afternoon
was consumed by the reading of papers on mathematics, by Prof. R. Wilson
Allen, and on number work, by Miss Allie K. Higgins.
* agenda published in "Denton Journal" 10 Dec 1898.
Paper was “Number Work for Second and Third Grade Pupils”
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Source: "Denton Journal". 24 Dec 1898
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The Ridgely Dramatic Company
yesterday evening rendered the drama “After Ten Years, or the Maniac Wife”,
in McShane’s Hall. Following was the cast: …, Miss Allie Higgins, …
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Source: “Denton Journal". 11 Feb 1899
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The following teachers have been recently
appointed… Allie K. Higgins… at Ridgely Academy
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Source: “Denton Journal". 26 Aug 1899
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Miss Allie Higgins, of Ridgely, has
been visiting Talbot friends.
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Source: “Denton Journal". 21 Oct 1899
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Ridgely [Town News]. Miss Allie K.
Higgins, one of the teachers here, is spending the week with her parents at
St. Michaels.
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