This Date in History: July 9

Addison Quivey, a member of the 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition, later served as a deputy United States Marshal among the Crows.  In March 1880, serving as an interpreter, he traveled with six Crow leaders from the Crow Agency to Washington, D.C., where they met President Rutherford B. Hayes.  Addison M. Quivey died at the Boykin House in Billings, Montana on July 9, 1895 and is buried at the Mountview Cemetery in Billings.  (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)

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Bruno Pfuetze, SS-Obersturmführer, served as the kommandant of the Jaworzno sub-camp of Auschwitz.  He was born in Nerchau on July 9, 1912.  Pfuetze was married, an agnostic and received the War Service Cross Second Class.  He had Nazi Party Number 1737180 and SS Number 81491.  He died during the night of June 17/18, 1945 in Oslo, Norway, possibly murdered while confined there.  (The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System)