Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Bieri was born on 16 July 1868, in Bern, Switzerland, her father, Samuel Bieri, was 29 and her mother, Elisabeth Roth, was 24. She married Johannes Losenegger on 16 February 1889, in New Glarus, Green, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Vermont, Dane, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1920. She died on 18 March 1930, in Mount Horeb, Dane, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mount Horeb Union Cemetery, Mount Horeb, Dane, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Eliza Losenegger in household of John Losenegger, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eliza Bieri Losenegger, "Find A Grave Index"
- Anna Elisabeth Bieri in entry for Friedrich Losenegger, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1870 · P.T. Barnum's Circus Established in Wisconsin
P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome was established in Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Bernhard, Heinz, Kurt, Reinhold.
Swiss German: probably from a pet form of the personal name Birr 1. In Switzerland it is most common in the cantons of Bern and Lucerne.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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