When Wilhelm Peter Althauser or Althausen was born on 21 November 1673, in Germany, his father, Jacob Althauser, was 38 and his mother, Wilhelmina Minnie, was 19. He married Anna Maria Bauer on 11 May 1693, in Rodenbach, Büdingen, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1715. He died after 1750, in Feldkirchen, Egling, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany.
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On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
German (rarely Althäuser): habitational name for someone from any of several places named Althausen or Althaus (see Althaus ). Compare Althiser .
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