When Marion F. Rittenhouse was born on 12 August 1862, in Prairie Du Long Township, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, his father, Nelson Rittenhouse, was 24 and his mother, Lavinia Carr, was 21. He married Mary Bell Goldsmith on 5 October 1884, in Clinton, Illinois, United States. He lived in Lake Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 6, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1900. He died on 19 January 1937, in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Colorado War was a conflict between the United States and an alliance among the Kiowa, Araphaho, Cheyenne, and Comache nations of the Native American. The war was over the Eastern Plains of the Colorado Territory and resulted in the removal of the tribes.
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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