When Maria Voigtlander was born on 22 October 1856, in Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Christian August Ludwig Voigtländer, was 38 and her mother, Caroline Dorothee Wilhelmine Lehmann, was 37. She lived in Shawano, Wisconsin, United States in 1856 and La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States for about 40 years. She died on 19 March 1932, at the age of 75.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Short form of Maria , of German origin but now also moderately popular in the English-speaking world.
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