When Mattie Louisa Pitcher was born on 5 April 1862, in Battle Creek Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, her father, Lafayette Adam Pitcher, was 26 and her mother, Isadore Maria Galpin, was 23. She married George Edgar Ranger on 6 July 1892, in Blue Earth, Faribault, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Lura Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 23 January 1904, in Palermo Township, Grundy, Iowa, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Grundy Center, Grundy, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
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.
English (mainly eastern and southern): from an agent derivative of Middle English pich ‘pitch’, hence an occupational name for a caulker, one who sealed the seams of ships or barrels with pitch.
Possibly from German Pitscher, from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bītan ‘to endure’, or bittan ‘to wish or ask for’, or from a variant of Pietsch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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