1848 URBAN

Arriving from BREMEN, GERMANY; in BALTIMORE, MD on November 24, 1848, on the ship “GUSTAV.”

 

1) Wilhelmine URBAN, 24, of Drachhausen

 

Wilhelmine URBAN may have been the nanny for Louise STEMPEL. Louise was traveling without her husband, as a young mother with 4 young children. Perhaps Wilhelmine received part of her passage costs in trade for services. The group arrived in BALITMORE, MD, one year and one month after Dr. STEMPEL’S original trip. They are believed to have taken the same Ohio River route to FORT MADISON, IOWA; which would have been a frozen and icy spot when they arrived, in late December or early January.

 

In 1850, Wilhelmine married a non-Wend, farmer, originally known as Ludwig, and later as an Americanized, “Louis H” Huebotter; in St. John’s Church in Fort Madison. He was nearly the same age and a new immigrant from what appears to be Westler, Brundenschwieg, Germany.

 

They had their first child, “Minnie” while still in Fort Madison, in 1853, and christened her on the 29 Jun 1854. By 1855, they moved directly across the Mississippi River, to Pantoosa, Hancock County Illinois, where they had 4 more children in the next 8 years:

 

1)      Maria Elisabeth “Minnie” HUEBOTTER, 21 Aug 1853,  Fort Madison, IA

2)      Elisabeth “Lizzie HUEBOTTER,” Aug 1855, Pontoosa, Hancock, Illinois

3)      Louisa “Louise” HUEBOTTER, Mar 1857, Pontoosa, Hancock, Illinois

4)      Louis HUEBOTTER Jr,  Mar 1857, Pontoosa, Hancock, Illinois

5)      Hienrich L “Henry” HUEBOTTER, Feb 1863, Pontoosa, Hancock, Illinois

 

In 1870, their farm had 3 extra adults living and working on it. By 1880, the family had moved on to Highland, Lewis, MO. They lived in this area at least another 20 years.

Found in the same area in the 1900 census; amazingly, all of their children are still living with them and they are all single, even though they are in their 30’s and 40’s. Only the youngest child Henry is listed with a profession, as “merchant” and he appears to be supporting the entire family. It is presumed that Wilhelmine URBAN and Louis Huebotter died in LaGrange, Lewis, MO, sometime after 1900.

 

Youngest son, Henry, marries Katherine Henigbaum, who was born in New York, some time after 1900. No children have been found; perhaps he or she would have been too old to think about a family by then.

 

Wilhelmine URBAN’S immigration creates an opportunity and incentive for first; her  cousin or niece, Pauline URBAN to follow as a nanny with another wave of STEMPEL’S (1852)  and second; her presumed brothers or cousins, Fred and Christian URBAN.

 

Fred URBAN (immigrated 1856) married Wend Louisa MUSCHICK, another immigrant from DRACHHAUSEN, (immigrated in 1857); in 1861, in St. John’s Church in Fort Madison, Iowa.

 

Fred and Louisa URBAN lived most of their adult lives near  Wilhelmine URBAN and Louis Huebotter in Pontoosa Township, Hancock, Illinois.

 

(New 2 Nov 2008)