Eugene A Hiller (1898 - 1970)

Eugene's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Hiller family tree.

Eugene's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Eugene A Hiller Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

We currently do not have photos of Eugene A Hiller. Below are potential family photos that share Eugene's last name or surname. Pictures really do say a thousand words. Add photos of Eugene during various points of his life

Forrest Whitcomb Hiller

Merle H Hiller

Aunt Rachel Hillis/Hiller

Rev. Alfred E. Hiller, NY & NJ

Rev. Alfred E. Hiller, NJ & NY

What do you remember about Eugene A Hiller? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about him. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Eugene is remembered.

• View Profile
• View Favorites
• Send Message

Post

Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Eugene's lifetime

In 1898, in the year that Eugene A Hiller was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.

In 1934, he was 36 years old when on June 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great Depression. Previously, the states regulated the offering and sales of stocks - called "blue sky" laws. They were largely ineffective. Roosevelt created a group (one member was Joseph Kennedy, father of the future President Kennedy) who knew Wall Street well and they defined the mission and operating mode for the SEC. The new organization had broad and stringent rules and oversight and restored public confidence in the stock market in the United States.

In 1952, by the time he was 54 years old, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

In 1964, he was 66 years old when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.

In 1970, in the year of Eugene A Hiller's passing, on May 4th, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by National Guardsmen. The students were at a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US forces. There had been precedent for the killing of American college students. The previous year, on May 15th, Alameda County Sheriffs used shotguns against U.C. Berkeley students at a protest for People's Park. One student died, one was blinded, 128 were injured.