When Emma Bertha Bluemel was born on 5 October 1862, in Janowitz, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Ernest Wilhelm Bluemel, was 29 and her mother, Johanne Christiane Friedericke Adolph, was 29. She married James Marshall Conger on 29 November 1883, in Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 8 February 1949, in Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hermann, Ralf.
South German (Blümel): from a diminutive of Middle High German bluome ‘flower’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gardener or florist or, in some cases, possibly a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a flower. Compare Blumel .
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