♀ 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 Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is inaugurated as first King of the Belgians.

1864


Age: 31y
1864 Asa Shinn Mercer travels from Seattle to the U.S. East Coast and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the West Coast.

1867


May
Age: 35y
1867 • The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It will be renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983.

1868


Feb 3
Age: 36y
1868 Paraguayan WarBattle of Itororó or Ytororó: Field-Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias leads 13,000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5,000 troops.

1870


Jun 15
Age: 38y
1870 • The "circle of the sun" flag of Japan is adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships by proclamation of the Daijō-kan.

1874


Mar
Age: 42y
1874 Siege of Bilbao (Third Carlist War): The siege is lifted.

1876


Age: 43y
1876 • The Bulgarian April uprising occurs.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 47y
1879 • American Christian Restorationist Charles Taze Russell publishes the first issue of the monthly Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence which, as The Watchtower, will become the most widely circulated magazine in the world.

1920


Age: 87y
1920 • The oldest surviving pro wrestling match on film takes place, with Joe Stecher defeating Earl Caddock.

1923


May 17
Age: 91y
1923 Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.

1923


May
1923 • The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.

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