When Doretha Emelie Jaeger was born on 14 August 1881, in Ixonia, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States, her father, August Ferdinand Jaeger, was 34 and her mother, Bertha Sophie Zastrow, was 31. She married Carl Charles Herman Jaeger on 31 December 1903, in Ixonia, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Farmington, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States for about 25 years. She died on 8 March 1950, at the age of 68, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Friedrich, Klaus, Fritz, Armin, Erwin, Helmut, Ralf, Alois, Gerhard.
German (mainly Jäger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic; also Jäger): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle High German jeger(e), Middle Low German jeger(e) (agent derivatives of jagen ‘to hunt’); as a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial, derived from German Jäger. The surname is also established in Scandinavia (Swedish Jäger; Danish and Norwegian Jæger). Compare Jager 1, Yaeger , and Yeager .
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