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Week 35: #52 Ancestors – At Work
By Eilene Lyon
This week’s project began as a story about my 4th great-aunt, Catherine Delle, who is credited with establishing the first kindergarten in Madison, Wisconsin. You know I like to write about successful women from my family tree.
As I researched, I ended up finding more occupations and careers than I’ve ever seen in one family before. Some of these people deserve articles of their own, so this will just be a summary. I was first pleasantly surprised, then astonished. I hope you will be, too.
Catherine Delle and Frederick C. Moessner
Catherine Delle, the fourth of six children by Richard Delle and Magdalena Breckner, was born in Kastel-Mainz, Hesse, Germany, in 1840. When she was 12, the entire family emigrated to America and settled in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Catherine married Frederick C. Moessner in 1858. Fred was also a German immigrant and had a career as a baker and confectioner. After the war, the Moessners settled permanently in Madison and Fred established his own shop at 211 King St., between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. The family, which eventually comprised five daughters and one son, lived upstairs.
Margarethe Meyer Schurz founded the first kindergarten in America in Watertown, Wisconsin. She learned th
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The Paper 11-09-17
November 9, 2017
Volume 46 - No. 44 by Friedrich Gomez
As a professional magician, I am often asked if Harry Houdini was really that great. That question requires a qualified answer: As a straight conjuror or stage magician, I would answer no. But, as an escape artist, he was absolutely without equal, even to this day. If I had an opportunity to be able to meet and speak to any magician, past to present, it would have to be Harry Houdini. He was not only world renowned as an escape artist, and a foremost authority on locks and locking mechanisms in general, but he was very intelligent on different levels: he was a pioneer aviator, movie star, owned his own movie studios, was fluent in four languages, and wellread on a variety of topics – all of which separates him, immediately, from any other conjurer, past to present. But purely as an escapologist, he had no peer.
Like Albert Einstein in science, Houdini often thought ‘outside the box’ in regards to ingenious methods of picking locks and extricating himself from different constraints.
It takes one’s breath away just how far he would go in hiding various devices, keys, and assorted picks to secretly open locks with. Yes, there were standard methods he employed, such as when he had doctors examine him in
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