Edward RUPRECHT

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20 July 1816 , Marklissa, Silesia, Prussia, Germany

Died

27 March 1880 , Allamakee, Iowa, USA

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Born: 20 July 1816 in Marklissa, Silesia, Prussia, Germany

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Edward was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1850.

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Edward RUPRECHT died 27 March 1880 in Allamakee, Iowa, USA.
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Birth — 1816
20 July 1816
Marklissa, Silesia, Prussia, Germany

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

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Name: Edward Ruprecht
Event Type: Naturalization
Event Place: Waukon, Iowa
Event Date: 1859
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Birthplace: Prussia
Affiliate Publication Title: Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions for U.S. District & Circuit Courts, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840-1950
Affiliate Publication Number: M1285
Affiliate Film Number: 144
GS Film number: 1432144
Digital Folder Number: 004641213
Image Number: 00897

'Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ XKG5-Z4H : accessed 21 Oct 2013), Edward Ruprecht, 1859.
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1860 Allamakee, Iowa
Name: Edward Rupricht
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Minor Civil Division: Lansing Township
Age (Expanded): 44 years
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Page: 18
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Affiliate Publication Number: M653
GS Film number: 803310
Digital Folder Number: 4218031
Image Number: 00094

'United States Census, 1860,' index, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ M8L7-RRP : accessed 21 Oct 2013), Edward Rupricht, , Allamakee, Iowa; citing '1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population,' Fold3.com; p. 18, family 132, NARA microfilm publication M653; FHL microfilm 803310.

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1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

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Name: Edward Ruprecht
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813
Birth Place: Preußen
Age: 67
Death Date: Mar 1880
Cause of Death: Paralysis
Census Year: 1880
Census Place: Lansing, Allamakee, Iowa
Enumeration District: 9
Line: 11

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Non-population Census Schedules for Iowa, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T1156; Archive Roll Number: 59; Census Year: 1880; Census Place: Lansing, Allamakee, Iowa.