When Johann Wilhelm Feller was born on 9 April 1736, in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Johann Philip Feller, was 41 and his mother, Catharina Elizabetha Rau, was 39. He married Catherine Reichert in West Camp, Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States. He died on 31 March 1799, in his hometown, at the age of 62.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a furrier, a seller of pelts or hides, from an -er agent derivative of Middle English fell, Middle Low German, Middle High German vel, German Fell or Yiddish fel ‘hide, pelt’. See also Fell .
German: variant of Felder .
German: habitational name for someone from a place called Fell near Trier or Fellen, Felln in Bavaria.
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