When Martha Theresa Reichenbach was born in May 1864, in New York, United States, her father, Joseph Reichenbach, was 53 and her mother, Anna Mary, was 40. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with John J Schimmel. She lived in Lenox, Lenox, Madison, New York, United States in 1900 and Utica, Oneida, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1943, at the age of 79, and was buried in Yorkville, Oneida, New York, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Inge, Bodo, Ernst, Franz, Fritz, Hans, Ullrich, Ulrich, Uwe.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various minor places, particularly in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, so named from Old High German rīhhi ‘rich, powerful’ (i.e. strongly flowing) + bah ‘stream’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German reich ‘rich’ + Bach ‘stream’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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