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Author
Publisher
Gateway Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
xv, 399 p. : ill., coat of arms, ports., maps
Language
English
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The earliest known member of this family, Marx (Markus) Engelhorn (1580-1650), was born in Hockenheim, Baden, Germany. The common ancestor of all the Engelhorns who came to Allamakee Co., Iowa between 1847 and 1866 was, Johann Marcus Engelhorn II (1782-1869), who was Bürger, farmer and magistrate in Altlussheim, Germany. He stayed in Germany. His oldest son, Johann Thomas III, also stayed in Germany, but eight of his nine surviving children immigrated...
Author
Publisher
F.L. Groover
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
[577] p.in various pagings : ill., ports.
Language
English
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Peter (Gruber) Groover was born 1697 and lived with his parents Michael Gruber and Magdalena Amoser in the Gastein Valley of Austria. Peter immigrated to America ca. 1734 and settled in Georgia. He married Maria Kroer Mosshammer (widow of Johannes Mosshammer) sometime prior to 1738. They lived in Georgia and were the parents of two children. Descendants lived primarily in Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
P.S. Eagleson
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
45 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
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Georg August Hentze was born 4 April 1794 in Einbeck, Germany. He married Katharine Dorothea Louise Hellberg (1801- ca.1831) 27 December 1823. They had four children. He married Johanne Waehsmuth (ca. 1803-1833) 26 December 1832. He married Martha Elizabeth Wedekind 6 April 1834. They had two children. They emigrated in 1848 and settled in Hermann, Missouri. He died 1 June 1870. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Missouri, Illinois and California....
Author
Publisher
P.E. Gruver
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
20, 64, 3 p.
Language
English
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Nicholas Groover (Grougher) was born in 1700 at Palatinate, Germany near Strassburg not far from the southern end of the former Alsace-Lorraine. He left from Rotterdam on the ship "Samuel" and arrived at Philadelphia, Pa. on Dec 3, 1740. He settled in Tinicum Twp., where he died in 1774. He was the son of Adam Gruber, a shoemaker, and Helene Gruber. John Peter Gruber was born in Germany in 1729. He came to America ca. 1750 and settled in Bucks Co.,...
Author
Publisher
R. Csada
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
x, 197 p. : ill., coats of arms, facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
Language
English
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Adam Mayer (1849-1939), a son of Jakob Mayer and Kathrina Knoblouch, was born in Yashof, Austria and married three times. His third wife was Kathrina Bales and they married in 1894. In 1896 the family immigrated from Austria to homestead land near Lemberg, Saskatchewan. Descendants and relatives lived in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere in the United...
Author
Publisher
C.E. Bright
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., ports.
Language
English
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Description
Hamilton Garver Bright (1854-1920) married Aldeba Klepinger (1858-1907) in Hamilton, Ohio in 1879; they had twelve children. Their large posterity is found in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and elsewhere. The Bright ancestry is traced to Conrad and Catrina Brecht in southwest Germany in the 1500s. The first Bright ancestor in America was Johan Michael Brecht, who came from Schreisheim, Germany to Pennsylvania in 1726 with his wife, Marguerite Simone, a...
Author
Publisher
publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
1 online resource (9 unnumbered leaves)
Language
English
Description
Biographies of the 4 children: Christopher II, Anna Elizabeth Annalis Höcker, Henry Höcker, and Ludwig Höcker, as well as of him, his wife Maria Christina Gruber Sower, and her father Eberhard Ludwig Gruber.
Author
Publisher
N.H. Caffrey
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vii, 326 p. : il., facsims., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
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Description
Samuel LeVan Hershberger was born 7 November 1870 in Baldwin, Iowa. His parents were John Shirk Hershberger and Emma LeVan. He married Fannie Francis McIntosh 18 December 1895 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. They had nine children. He died in 1963 in Twin Falls, Idaho. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Idaho.
Author
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
221 p. in various pagings : geneal. tables.
Language
English
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Description
Descendants of William Clements (b. ca. 1735), who came to Philadelphia from Ireland about 1760. He fought in the American Revolution. He was married and had at least two sons and two daughters: James Alexander (ca. 1765- 1820), who lived in Delaware, Westmoreland and Allegheny Counties in Pennsylvania; David, who lived in Delaware County in 1790; Margaret (1768-1849); Elizabeth? and probably one more son. Family members live in Pennsylvania, Virginia...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Gruber, special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, tells about her experiences carrying out a mission to bring one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees from Italy in 1944, and discusses her efforts on their behalf once they arrived in America.
Author
Publisher
Ray J. Deppen
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
625 p.
Language
English
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Description
Christian Deppen (1705-1781), son of Christian and Anna (Bohlen) Deppen, married Veronica Ruchty, and the family immigrated (with her father and his family) from Switzerland to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Virginia and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., facsms., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
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Description
"Friedrich Hueftle [1860 - 1911] and Wilhelm Hueftle [1862 - 1925] left Germany in the summer of 1880 to avoid military conscription and to seek the opportunities afforded by the westward expansion of America. During the journey, they met Margaret Sanwald ... [who helped] them reach Varna, Illinois."--P. 6. and whose family helped them secure employment with the railroad. (Friedrich and Margaret were married 25 July 1911.) Later they relocated in...
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