Biography -- Niggli, Josephina.
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Niggli, Josephina, 1910-1983
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Biography Niggli was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico on July 13, 1910. Her father Frederick Ferdinand Niggli, whose Swiss and Alsatian forebears immigrated to Texas in 1836, had moved to Mexico in 1893 and found a job as the manager of a cement plant in the village of Hidalgo. Josephina's mother, Goldie (Morgan) Niggli, was a violinist of Irish, French and German descent. In 1925 Niggli was sent to San Antonio, Texas when she was 15 yea...
