When Edward M Rittenhouse was born on 14 October 1864, in Prairie Du Long Township, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, his father, Nelson Rittenhouse, was 26 and his mother, Lavinia Carr, was 23. He married Myrtle Woley on 26 February 1905, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Austin Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Lake Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 11 May 1930, in Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Marion, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Americanized form of German Rittinghaus: habitational name from a farm near Altena, Westphalia.
History: William Rittenhouse (1644–1708) was the first Mennonite preacher in North America. He was born in the Rhineland, Prussia (Germany) and worked as a papermaker in Amsterdam, emigrating to PA in 1688 and establishing the first paper mill in America. His great-grandson David Rittenhouse (1732–96) of Philadelphia was an astronomer and the first director of the United States Mint.
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