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90. Shannon Dural Higgins
was born in 1969 in Arlington, Tarrant County, Tx..
He was educated in 1993 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. Associate Degree
Business, Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Texas.
"Higgins or O'Higgins is the anglicized form of the Gaelic name O'h-Uigin,
which means the Decendant of Uige. The word Uige signifies "knowledge"
or "ingenuity".
The family originated as an off shoot of the O'Neills of the midlands of Ireland,
and, through them trace their ancestry back to King Nial of the Nine Hostages,
A.D. 379. The Higgins clan spread westwards as far as County Sligo where they
held large estates until dispossessed by Cromwell.
Historaclly, the most remarkable thing about this family is that they were hereditary
brehons, or chief judges, of Ireland and produced a great number of distinguished
poets and learned men. The famous Irish historians, known as the "Four
Masters", enumerate no fewer than eleven poets of renown of the Higgins
clan, one of whom was Maolmuire O'h-Uigin, noted Archbishop of Tuam.
With the destruction of the Gaelic order, the Higgins family lost their pre-eminence
in the literary sphere but not their prominence in the world of affairs. Don
Ambrosio O'Higgins (1730-1801) is well known as the Liberator of Chile. William
O'Higgins (d. 1825) was a chemist of international fame." Author Unknown
The Higgins coat of arms issued in Ireland is a silver shield upon which are
black "guttee de poix," the heraldic term for drops of pitch used on
an attacking enemy. The center division of the shield is black with three silver
towers.
He was married to Kara Lafferty in 1996 in Denver , Denver Co., Colorado.
Kara Lafferty was born in 1967 in Hutchinson, Kansas.