My father was born on September 14, 1908 in Fresno, California. He was the youngest of three sons and two daughters. His parents Heinrich George Leisle and Maria Elizabeth Bier were both born in the Warenburg Colony of Privalnjoe, Samara, Russia on the Volga River. They were married in the German Colony on November 1894, with two of their five children being born and baptized in Warenburg. My grandparents left from the port in Hamburg Germany to New York from Privalnjoe, Russia on the ship named SS Patricia with his family and father-in-law George Conrad Bier on November 7, 1898. They arrived at Ellis Island on November 18, 1898 and were in their new home, the land that was always summer, Fresno, California on the 26th of the same month.
My father was named Jacob Leisle, but went by Jack. He didn't like his given name because it sounded too much like German. He worked with his brother Henry through the first war on the farm writing his older brother regularly until Philipp returned from the war. In June of 1942 Jacob (Jack) Leisle married Eunice Valentine Montgomery. His brother's upholstery shop had moved to Glendale, in Los Angeles County.
My father was named Jacob Leisle, but went by Jack. He didn't like his given name because it sounded too much like German. He worked with his brother Henry through the first war on the farm writing his older brother regularly until Philipp returned from the war. In June of 1942 Jacob (Jack) Leisle married Eunice Valentine Montgomery. His brother's upholstery shop had moved to Glendale, in Los Angeles County.
My father was born on September 14, 1908 in Fresno, California. He was the youngest of three sons and two daughters. His parents Heinrich George Leisle and Maria Elizabeth Bier were both born in the Warenburg Colony of Privalnjoe, Samara, Russia on the Volga River. They were married in the German Colony on November 1894, with two of their five children being born and baptized in Warenburg. My grandparents left from the port in Hamburg Germany to New York from Privalnjoe, Russia on the ship named SS Patricia with his family and father-in-law George Conrad Bier on November 7, 1898. They arrived at Ellis Island on November 18, 1898 and were in their new home, the land that was always summer, Fresno, California on the 26th of the same month.
My father was named Jacob Leisle, but went by Jack. He didn't like his given name because it sounded too much like German. He worked with his brother Henry through the first war on the farm writing his older brother regularly until Philipp returned from the war. In June of 1942 Jacob (Jack) Leisle married Eunice Valentine Montgomery. His brother's upholstery shop had moved to Glendale, in Los Angeles County.
My father was named Jacob Leisle, but went by Jack. He didn't like his given name because it sounded too much like German. He worked with his brother Henry through the first war on the farm writing his older brother regularly until Philipp returned from the war. In June of 1942 Jacob (Jack) Leisle married Eunice Valentine Montgomery. His brother's upholstery shop had moved to Glendale, in Los Angeles County.
