Brief Life History of John Adam
When John Adam Pfisterer was born in 1871, in New York, United States, his father, David Pfisterer, was 36 and his mother, Karoline Luisa or Louise MUELLER, was 31. He married Ingeborg Wangsgard on 25 June 1894, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1930 and San Jose Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1940. He died in 1955, in United States, at the age of 84.
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- John A Pfisterer, "United States 1950 Census"
- John A Pfister, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- John Adam Pfisterer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
South German: variant of Pfister .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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