When Louisa Fischer was born on 14 October 1868, in Schaffhausen, Saarlouis, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany, her father, Hans Ulrich Fischer, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Bollinger, was 32. She married Peter Mormon Allen on 6 November 1884, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Union, Oregon, United States in 1910. She died on 19 September 1947, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Gerhard, Helmut, Fritz, Klaus, Horst, Dieter, Franz, Ernst.
German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle High German visch, German Fisch ‘fish’ + the agent suffix -er. This form of the surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, and the Netherlands. In Poland, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia it is (also) established in the Slavicized forms Fiszer (Polish) and Fišer (see Fiser ). Compare Fisher .
Scottish: variant of Fisher .
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