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Dorothea Oelgart 1824 - 1903

Sophie Dorothea (Ehlert) Oelgart was born on December 14, 1824 in Unseburg Germany, and was the mother of Emma Bertha Oelgart Smith. Sophie Dorothea Oelgart died at age 78 years old on August 17, 1903 in Williams, Colusa County, California USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dorothea Oelgart.
Sophie Dorothea (Ehlert) Oelgart
December 14, 1824
Unseburg, 39435, Germany
August 17, 1903
Williams, Colusa County, California, 95987, USA
Female
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  • Introduction

    Immigrated from Prussia at the age of 55. Destination: USA Transit and travel compartment: Staying In The Usa [transit]; Steerage [travel] Manifest#: 60388
  • 12/14
    1824

    Birthday

    December 14, 1824
    Birthdate
    Unseburg 39435, Germany
    Birthplace
  • Nationality & Locations

    German
  • Professional Career

    Wife
  • 08/17
    1903

    Death

    August 17, 1903
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Williams, Colusa County, California 95987, USA
    Death location
  • Obituary

    Daughter of Johann Friedrich Ehlert (1787 – 1831) and his wife Dorothee Elisabeth Krem(s)kau. In 1852 she married Johann Peter Gottlob Leopold Oelgart (b. 1807) and had 6 Kids. in 1880 she went to the US, but without the husband. His end is yet unknown.
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In 1824, in the year that Dorothea Oelgart was born, on December 3rd, the U.S. presidential election of 1824 was finally decided. None of the four candidates for U.S. President gained a majority of the electoral votes so for the first - and last - time the election was thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives for a decision, called a contingent election. John Quincy Adams won on the first vote. Another candidate, Andrew Jackson, never accepted the results and accused Adams and Henry Clay - the Speaker of the House - of striking a "corrupt bargain".
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In 1831, at the age of only 7 years old, Sophie Dorothea was alive when on January 1st, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston Massachusetts. Published until 1865, the paper was strongly abolitionist and advocated the "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves".
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