When Dorothea Saeger was born on 11 November 1880, in Loraine, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, Conrad Friederich Sager, was 40 and her mother, Marie Christjana Augusta Kaster, was 42. She had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with Louis Gottfried Kuhlemeyer. She lived in Silver Creek Township, Stephenson, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Ridott Township, Stephenson, Illinois, United States in 1924. She died on 24 August 1924, in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson, 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.
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Säger): occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German segen, sagen, German sägen ‘to saw’. Compare Sager 2.
In some cases possibly also a shortened form of Flemish De Saeger: cognate of 1 above, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch saghen ‘to saw’.
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