William Francis Kemmler was an American peddler, alcoholic, and murderer, who, in 1890, became the first person in the world to be executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. Although electrocution had previously been successfully used to kill a horse, Kemmler's execution did not go smoothly.
Bechstein is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Peirce is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Bunn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Haydar, also spelt Hajdar, Hayder, Heidar, Haider, Heydar, and other variants, is an Arabic male given name, also used as a surname, meaning "brave" and "lion". In Islamic tradition, the name is primarily associated with Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law and cousin of Muhammad, who was nicknamed "Haydar".
Traube is a German surname meaning "grape". Notable people with the surname include:
Lipschitz, Lipshitz, or Lipchitz is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (Lifschitz), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lopshits, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Lifszyc, Lipszyc. It is commonly Anglicized as Lipton, and less commonly as Lipington.
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German occupational surname derived from schenken referring to the medieval profession of cup-bearer or wine server. At one time only Jews were allowed to sell alcohol in the Russian empire, which is why Shenk (Russian) and its later surname variants are very common.
Addams is a patronymic surname of English origin from the given name Adam. There are other spellings. Notable people with the surname include:
Stolz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Moldenke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Petersson is a Swedish patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter". There are alternate Danish, Dutch, English, German, Latvian and Norwegian spellings. Numbers in Sweden:
Zeisler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sepp is a surname. When borne by Estonian-descended people, it is usually derived from sepp meaning "smith".
Lahmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Szulc is a Polish surname, a version of the German surname Schulz. Notable people with the surname include:
Sack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Von Donop is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Fiszer is a Polish-language transliteration of German surname Fischer. Notable people with this surname include:
Kovachevski is a Bulgarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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