When John J. Rieder was born on 27 August 1853, in Maysville, Wayne, Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel Rieder IV, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Ann Mowrey, was 30. He married Lucinda B G Hatfield on 14 March 1876, in Wayne, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Maysville, Salt Creek Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 24 February 1923, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Fredericksburg, Wayne, Ohio, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Bernhard, Erwin, Florian, Franz, Georg, Guenther, Helmut, Irmgard, Orlo, Urs.
German:
topographic name from Middle High German riet ‘damp, mossy ground, wet land’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant, or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called with this word (see Ried , Riede ).
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