When Oswald Strohm Risser was born on 18 June 1872, in Medina, Medina, Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel Fredrick Risser, was 28 and his mother, Maria Anna Strohm, was 25. He married Minnie Mitchell on 23 December 1902. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Buhl, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 27 June 1959, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 87.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
South German: variant of Riss 1, 2.
Americanized form of Swiss German Rüsser (see Reusser ).
In some cases an altered form of German Rieser .
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