John Cowan was born at New Castle on Tyne, Northumberland, England, in 1838, the son of John and Mary Grieves Cowan. He immigrated to the United States and settled at Coalville, Illinois, where he joined Union forces for service in the Civil War. After the war he returned to Coalville and then moved to Ohio, ca. 1866. He married Josephine Bruce (1842-1892) at Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, in 1867. They had five children, 1868-1877, born at Canal...

Martin Lang born 9 Nov. 1801 in Pfaffenweiler, Baden, Germany married Gertrude Katherine Wagner on the 20 Nov. 1826. They had four children born in Germany and in 1842 immigrated to the United States. The family arrived at Baltimore, Maryland and by the year 1850 had settled in St. Clair Co., Illinois. Martin and Gertrude both lived and died in Illinois. Descendants lived in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.

Heinrich Gerhard Rathjen/Ratjen (1823-1895) immigrated to Klemzig, South Australia from Germany in 1848. He had thirteen children by his first wife, Helena and two more by Elisabeth, his second wife. Descendants lived chiefly near Adelaide.

Genealogy of Gilbert McDonald (1872-1942), who was born in Gateshead, Durham, England, a son of Michael and Jamina Mullan McDonald. He married Isabella Foster (1875-1963) in 1895. She was a daughter of John Foster and Margaret Curry, born in New Bedford, England. Gilbert McDonald emigrated 1904. He settled in Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois. His wife and family emigrated the following year 1905. They had nine children, three born in England, six...

John Cowans (1838-1884) was born in Northumberland Co., England and by the year 1861 had immigrated to the United States and fought in the Union Army of the Civil War. He married Josephine Bruce and they lived in Canal Fulton, Ohio. Prior to 1884 they moved to Rich Hill, Missouri and John died there at the age of fourty-six. Descendants lived in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and elsewhere.

Leonard Wagner (1805-1866) and Michael Wagner (1810-1867), brothers, were sons of Joseph Wagner (1765-1817) and Katherine Kiefer of Pfaffenweiler, Baden, Germany. Leonard and Michael immigrated to the United States--Leonard to Millstadt, St. Clair County, Illinois and Michael to Egypt Township, Carroll County, Missouri. Descendants and relatives lived in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Washington, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors...

Johann Augustus Schwefel (1722-1791) was born at Obernhausen, near Lichtenberg, Hessia, the son of Johann Dietrich and Maria Liebig Schwefel. He migrated with the Pfeiffer family to Prussia in 1748 and married Julianna Maria Pfeiffer at Kausburg, Prussia, the same year. They had three sons. He received a grant of land at Kurtschlag, near Zehdenick on Havel. All of the Schwefel, all of the Dornfeld, and many of the Schoenike kin listed in this book...

Genealogy and history of Francisca Scheffer, who was born 1798 in Prussia, Germany. Her first marriage was to a Mr. Scheffer in about 1828. Her second marriage was to Ernst Wegener (b. 1803) ca. 1832 in Germany. In 1837, Francisca, along with her newer family immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts leaving her son, John Edward (1828-1912) born in Stuttgart from her first marriage, in Germany. He came 1844. John Edward was naturalized in September, 1852...

Henry Anton Meine was born in 1839 at Meierberg, Amt Sternberg, Lippe Detmold, Germany, the son of Anton and Carolina Vieth Meine. He immigrated to America in 1851 and settled at Steinhagen, Missouri. He married Carolina E. Bothe in 1860 at Steinhagen. They had nine children, only four lived to adulthood. He died at Steinhagen in 1928. Descendants lived in Missouri, Kansas, and elsewhere. Includes the Knipmeyer, Wegener, Hollman, Drosselmeyer, and...

James E. Bruce I (b. 1781) immigrated to the United States in 1834 from Leith, Scotland with his wife and four children. They lived in Manhattan, New York. His son James E. Bruce II (b. 1816) married Elizabeth (surname unknown) and moved to Canal Fulton, Stark Co., Ohio. Descendants of both father and son James II lived in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Kansas.