Hermann Oelrichs

June 8, 1850 (age 56)

Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

They had one child, Hermann Oelrichs, Junior., who served as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States. Navy during the First World War. The Oelrichses played a role in the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake as part of the Committee of Fifty. His remains were interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City. Hermann Oelrichs also made a stunt of swimming with the sharks 1891. Later in 1891, he offered a $500 prize to whoever could prove that a person could get attacked by a shark along the east coast of the United States. Before 1916, Americans would think it was more likely that a bunny turn into a bear then a shark attack a human.

Hermann Oelrichs

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The grandson of a German merchant in Bremen, Oelrichs was married in 1890 to Theresa Alice Fair, daughter of United States Senator and Comstock Lode millionaire James Graham Fair.

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They had one child, Hermann Oelrichs, Junior., who served as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States. Navy during the First World War. The Oelrichses played a role in the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake as part of the Committee of Fifty. His remains were interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.

Hermann Oelrichs also made a stunt of swimming with the sharks 1891.

Later in 1891, he offered a $500 prize to whoever could prove that a person could get attacked by a shark along the east coast of the United States. Before 1916, Americans would think it was more likely that a bunny turn into a bear then a shark attack a human.

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Oelrichs was a member of the Democratic Party and active in New York City politics before moving to San Francisco, California.

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