Herman Bernhard KesslerAge: 82 years1866–1949
- Name
- Herman Bernhard Kessler
- Given names
- Herman Bernhard
- Surname
- Kessler
 Birth | March 4, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 9 months)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 9 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Christina Wagner — View this family October 14, 1891 (Age 25 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Louise Jenette Kessler February 3, 1903 (Age 36 years) |
 Census | 1905 (Age 38 years) |
| Death of a wife | Christina Wagner June 13, 1912 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 51 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Marriage of a child | Ralph Hayden “Bud” Widick — Louise Jenette Kessler — View this family April 18, 1928 (Age 62 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Joanne Widick June 10, 1929 (Age 63 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Census | April 26, 1930 (Age 64 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Herman Kessler Widick September 1, 1931 (Age 65 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #3 | Sara Louise Widick July 11, 1935 (Age 69 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Louise Jenette Kessler July 7, 1939 (Age 73 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 75 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 79 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | 1949 (Age 82 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mount Vernon Cemetery |
| Family with Christina Wagner |
| himself |
Herman Bernhard Kessler Birth: March 4, 1866 — Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States Death: 1949 — Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States |
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Christina Wagner Birth: January 1871 — Missouri, United States Death: June 13, 1912 — Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States |
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Marriage: October 14, 1891 — Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States |
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11 years daughter |
Louise Jenette Kessler Birth: February 3, 1903 36 32 — Atchison, Kansas, United States Death: July 7, 1939 — Atchison, Kansas, United States |
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| Census | Kansas United State - Census transcript - Herman Bernhard Kessler - Household
Anderson, Kansas, United States
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| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Ralph Hayden “Bud” Widick - Household
Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States
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