Clara Amelia WEISS

Born

16 March 1863 , Pownal, Vermont, USA

Died

26 June 1936 , Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Clara Amelia married Frederick Arthur BRIMMER 17 November 1886 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Frederick Arthur BRIMMER was born 19 February 1864 in Berlin, Rensselaer, New York, USA. Frederick Arthur died 23 June 1934 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA.

Parents & Family of Clara Amelia WEISS

Parents of Clara Amelia WEISS

Father

Carl Charles WEISS

Mother

Augusta Caroline ENDE

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Clara Amelia WEISS

Clara Amelia WEISS married

Frederick Arthur BRIMMER
Marriage date: 17 November 1886
Marriage place: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
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Marriage notes:

Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

groom's name: Fred A. Brimmer

groom's birth date: 1864

groom's birthplace:

groom's age: 22

bride's name: Clara A. Weise

bride's birth date: 1863

bride's birthplace:

bride's age: 23

marriage date: 17 Nov 1886

marriage place: Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts

groom's father's name: Alvah Brimmer

groom's mother's name: Susan Potter

bride's father's name: Charles

bride's mother's name: Caroline Ende

groom's race:

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indexing project (batch) number: I09661-7

system origin: Massachusetts-EASy

source film number: 234553

reference number: p 105

married 17 Nov 1886 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Fred A. Brimser, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841 - 1910, Vol: 370 ; Page: 68. Both are from Pittsfield. He is 22. She is 23. He is a traveling salesman. She is at home. He was born in Berlin, NY. She was born in N. Pownal, VT. He is the son of Alvah and Susan Potter. She is the daughter of Charles and Caroline Ende. It is the first marriage for both.

Children of Frederick Arthur BRIMMER and Clara Amelia WEISS

Harold Walter BRIMMER

Born: 27 March 1889, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 23 April 1957, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Married: Jeannette Pearl "Nettie" WENGER 30 July 1920 Place: Jackson, Michigan, USA

Carl Arthur BRIMMER

Born: 30 March 1895, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Died: 18 October 1932, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Married: Jessie Mae FARRELL 1916 Place: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Daisy Ione ORR 27 June 1922 Place: Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

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Birth — 1863
16 March 1863
Pownal, Vermont, USA

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Enfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Name: Clara Weiss
Age: 2 years
estimated Birth Year: 1863
Gender: Female
Race:
birthPlace: Massachusetts
Marital Status: Single
Residence: Enfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
family number: 23
Line Number: 62
Film Number: 0954566
Digital Folder Number: 4286774
Image Number: 00164
Household Gender Age
Charles Weiss M 41y
Caroline Weiss F 28y
Ida Weiss F 6y
Robert Weiss M 4y
Clara Weiss F 2y
Powell Weiss M
Amelia Enda F 18y
Louisa Enda F 16y

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1865 Massachusetts Census
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April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

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

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

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 Paris, Oneida, New York

Name: Clara Wise
estimated Birth Year: 1863
Gender: Female
age in 1870: 7y
color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, indian): White
birthPlace: Vermont
home in 1870: New York, United States
Household Gender Age
Charles Wise M 45y
Caroline Wise F 32y
Ida Wise F 10y
Robert Wise M 9y
Clara Wise F 7y

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1870 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

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

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

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)

1880 Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Charles Wise, 55, b. abt 1825, Prussia, Works Woolen Mill
Caroline Wise, 42, b. abt 1838, Prussia, keeping house
Ida Wise, 20, b. abt 1860, Massachusetts, weaver
Robert Wise, 18, b. abt 1862, Massachusetts, clerk in store
Clara Wise, 17, b. abt 1863, Vermont, weaver
Jessie Wise, 3, b. abt 1877, Massachusetts

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1880 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 Marriage / Partner
Clara Amelia WEISS and Frederick Arthur BRIMMER 17 November 1886, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville)

She was 23 years old.

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1889 Birth of Child
Harold Walter BRIMMER was born 27 March 1889, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Coltsville)

Clara Amelia was 26 years old.

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1895 Birth of Child
Carl Arthur BRIMMER was born 30 March 1895, Toledo, Ohio, USA

Clara Amelia was 32 years old.

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

1900 Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Name: Clara A Brimmer
titles:
Residence: Pittsfield city, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Birth Date: Mar 1863
birthPlace: Vermont
relationship to head-of-household: Wife
spouse Name: Fred M Brimmer
spouse titles:
spouse birth Place: New York
father Name:
father titles:
father birthPlace: Germany
mother Name:
mother titles:
mother birthPlace: Germany
race or color (expanded): White
head-of-household Name: Fred M Brimmer
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
years Married: 13
estimated marriage year: 1887
mother how many children: 2
number living children: 2
Immigration Year:
enumeration District: 0066
Sheet Number and Letter: 5B
Household ID: 109
reference number: 78
gsu Film Number: 1240633
Image Number: 00000024
Household Gender Age
spouse Fred M Brimmer M
Clara A Brimmer F
child Harold W Brimmer M
child Carl A Brimmer M

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1900 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal.

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1910 Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Fred A. Bammer, 46
Clara Bammer, 47
Carl Bammer, 15
Carolyn Weise, 72

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1910 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 Jackson County, Michigan

Name: Clara A Brimmer
Residence: , Jackson, Michigan
estimated Birth Year: 1864
Age: 56
birthPlace: Vermont
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Gender: Female
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
father's birthPlace:
mother's birthPlace:
Film Number: 1820774
Digital Folder Number: 4311612
Image Number: 00231
sheet number: 20
Household Gender Age
spouse Fred A Brimmer M 55y
Clara A Brimmer F 56y
child Harrold Brimmer M 30y
child Carl A Brimmer M 24y

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1920 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1920 Marriage of Child
Harold Walter BRIMMER married 30 July 1920, Jackson, Michigan, USA to Jeannette Pearl "Nettie" WENGER

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1922 Marriage of Child
Carl Arthur BRIMMER married 27 June 1922, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA to Daisy Ione ORR

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States

1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)

1930 - Battle Creek, Michigan

Name: Clara A Brimmer
Birth Year: abt 1864
Gender: Female
Race: White
BirthPlace: Vermont
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Homemaker?: Yes
Home in 1930: Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: Adams St.
House Number: 48
Dwelling Number: 261
Family Number: 295
Age at first MarriAge: 21
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's BirthPlace: Germany
Mother's BirthPlace: Germany
Able to Speak English: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Frederick A Brimmer 66
Clara A Brimmer 66

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1930 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1930 - Scotch tape is invented (Richard Drew (3M), United States)

In 1930, on February 18, Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, marking a significant milestone in the study of our solar system.

1931 - The paper towel is invented (Arthur Scott, United States)

1931 - March 3 – The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.