When William Rothey was born on 6 July 1864, in Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Godfrey Rothey, was 35 and his mother, Anna Catherine Bachmann, was 32. He married Bessie Snyder on 5 April 1892, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 3 March 1940, in Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: apparently from an Anglicized form of the Welsh or Brittonic personal name Rhydderch (see Roderick and Prothero ).
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