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Sockenstricker (sock maker) in Butzbach

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Annie Kloss was a teacher inthe Claremont, California school beginning in 1905.

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Immigrated in 1732.

Merged General Note:
Immigrated in 1732.

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Known as "David". Boatman in Livermore, Pa. Lockkeeper in Saltsburg, Pa.

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Farmer in Northampton and Westmoreland Counties. Born in Nazareth Twp, what county?

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Second sheriff of Armstrong County, Pa. Revolutionary War Soldier.

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According to Kevin, "there is an entire book (out of print) on this Mathias KING family here in western Pa".

Kelly Blair (see sources) has a copy of the King/Koenig book. She says he was a farmer, sailed for the colonies on October 7, 1751 on the ship "Janet", landing in Philadelphia. Was a Revolutionary War Corporal. serving in Capt. Michel's Company. Built the Dryland Lutheran Church in1764, in 1922 a memnument was erected at the church to George and Mathais King.

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Described in source as being of Kohrbaus, of Barrington.

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Age given as 31 years old in 1860 Iowa Census, page 21, dated 18 Jun 1860. Birthplace given as Sparnburg, Germany. Occupation given as Farmer.

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Spent his youth in nearby Sparnberg, Province of Saxe-Coburg, Prussia. Was six feet tall in his bare feet, possessed a fine baritone singing voice. In Saxe-Coburg (or Sachsen), he was apprenticed to a stonecutter, and earned a first-class rating.

His mother arranged for him to avoid being drafted into the Prussian army by obtaining a passport for him through the brother of one of his older sisters. This brother was an army officer and had the authority to issue passports. So in 1848 he made his way to New York, where he met up with some old friends of his mother at the port of New York. They went to Western Pennsylvania, where he worked as a stonecutter on the first railroad that was reaching across the Allegheny Mountains.

He apparently stayed in Pennsylvania about six years, until 1854, at which time he became enamored with the tales of Ioway and moved to near Wassenville, where the McCallisters had already settled. He was handsome, thrifty, young and had enough money saved to buy land, so he was a hit with the girls there. He met Samantha Ann McCallister at a dance, and in 1855 married her.

According to "MARKS@smc.maricopa.edu", Wassenville, if spelled Wassonville, with an "o", was a small mill town located on the English River in northwestern Washington county, Iowa. I have visited thre as my great great great grandfather William Duer is burried on the hill above the old townsite. (He died and was buried in 1846). Wassonville has long been a ghost town. It was, however, mentioned in Fanning's Illustrated Gazeteer of the United States (copyright 1855).

Ater being one of the pioneers in Alton (Bull City), the family moved to Osborne about 1878 and ran a lumber yard there for several years.

Occupation per 1870 census is Stone Mason.

The Washington County Iowa Landowners 1859 Plat Map Indexed shows that John McCallister owned two properties at that time: The NW 1/4 of section 25, as well as the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of that section and the SW 1/4 of section 36 of Lime Creek Township. Anton Korb owned the SW 1/4 of Section 25, so the two families were no doubt well acquainted.

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Emily was very efficient in the domestic arts.