♀ Katherine Wiesen

1831 - 1923

Katherine Wiesen
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Spouse
Peter S Fisher Sr.
Peter S Fisher Sr.
1817 - 1894
Children
John M Fisher
John M Fisher
1864 - 1930
Charles Fisher
Charles Fisher
1867 - 1947
Matthew Fisher Sr.
Matthew Fisher Sr.
1868 - 1936
Joseph Fisher Sr.
Joseph Fisher Sr.
1879 - 1935
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1863


Age: 30y

1864


Age: 31y
1864 American Civil WarBattle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, West Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

1867


May
Age: 35y
1867 • The Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.

1868


Feb 3
Age: 36y
1868 Grito de Lares: Rebels (some 400–600 led by Ramón Emeterio Betances) in the town of Lares declare Puerto Rico independent; the local militia easily defeats them a week later.

1870


Age: 37y

1870


Jun 15
Age: 38y
1870 • The first edition of The Northern Echo newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.

1874


Mar
Age: 42y
1874 The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo.

1876


Age: 43y
1876 Queen Victoria takes the title Empress of India.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 47y
1879 • Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).

1923


May 17
Age: 91y
1923 • Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.

1923


May
1923 Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.

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