When Job Vincent Wetter was born on 20 February 1879, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Johan Wetter, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Harker, was 32. He married Wilhelmina C. Schmidt on 19 August 1903, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Norwood Park Township, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 14 December 1951, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Maine Township, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
German: habitational name from any of numerous places so named.
German: nickname from Middle High German wēt(t)er ‘weather, thunderstorm’ for an irritable person.
German: nickname for someone who liked to wager, from Middle High German wetten ‘to bet, wager’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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