♀ 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

1831


Dec 8
1831 William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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1863


Age: 30y
1863 American Civil War – The Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege (the 2-week-long siege and an attack are unsuccessful).

1864


Age: 31y
1864 • American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander in chief of all Union armies.

1867


May
Age: 35y

1868


Feb 3
Age: 36y
1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Three days after his action to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the United States House of Representatives votes 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, the first of two Presidents to be impeached by the full House. Johnson is later acquitted by the United States Senate.

1870


Jun 15
Age: 38y
1870 Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the Confederate States of America is dissolved.

1874


Mar
Age: 42y
1874 • English chemist C. R. Alder Wright synthetizes heroin for the first time.

1876


Age: 43y
1876 Third Carlist War in Spain – The Carlist forces do not succeed, and the promises are never fulfilled. The Carlist pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid, goes into exile in France bringing the conflict to an end after four years.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 47y
1879 • New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt, and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

1920


Age: 87y
1920 • El Tercio de Extranjeros, the "Regiment of Foreigners", later the Spanish Legion, is established by decree of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

1923


May 17
Age: 91y
1923 Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent (in the United States) for "television systems".

1923


May

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