CUYAHOGA, Ohio, 1924—Born to Jacob Ludwig Metzger and Wilhelmina Friedrike Sophie Singer on Jun 17, 1863 in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Gustav Metzger was christened on 19 July 1893 in Sankt Leonhards Evangelisch Church, Stuttgart, Neckarkreis, Wuerttembert.
The Family operated a Candle Making factory in Stuttgart, where he worked after school. With passage of Prussian Conscription laws earlier in the century, the family feared for Gustav and on March 22, 1879, they sent their 15 year old son to the Hamburg-Havre emigration port where he boarded the SS Herder and traveled to America. He docked and was processed at Castle Garden, New York April 16, 1879.
Mr Metzger moved to New Jersey working as an Express Clerk. He married Mary Horner on Nov 19, 1882 in Matawan, New Jersey Methodist Church. They had 7 children. He had two sisters that remained in Germany:
Maria Martha Metzger
Mathilde Friederike Wilhelmine Metzger
and parents remained in Germany.
In 1896 he married Ella C. Taylor and moved to Cleveland, Ohio working as a teamster and Janitor in the public schools.
The Family operated a Candle Making factory in Stuttgart, where he worked after school. With passage of Prussian Conscription laws earlier in the century, the family feared for Gustav and on March 22, 1879, they sent their 15 year old son to the Hamburg-Havre emigration port where he boarded the SS Herder and traveled to America. He docked and was processed at Castle Garden, New York April 16, 1879.
Mr Metzger moved to New Jersey working as an Express Clerk. He married Mary Horner on Nov 19, 1882 in Matawan, New Jersey Methodist Church. They had 7 children. He had two sisters that remained in Germany:
Maria Martha Metzger
Mathilde Friederike Wilhelmine Metzger
and parents remained in Germany.
In 1896 he married Ella C. Taylor and moved to Cleveland, Ohio working as a teamster and Janitor in the public schools.
CUYAHOGA, Ohio, 1924—Born to Jacob Ludwig Metzger and Wilhelmina Friedrike Sophie Singer on Jun 17, 1863 in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Gustav Metzger was christened on 19 July 1893 in Sankt Leonhards Evangelisch Church, Stuttgart, Neckarkreis, Wuerttembert.
The Family operated a Candle Making factory in Stuttgart, where he worked after school. With passage of Prussian Conscription laws earlier in the century, the family feared for Gustav and on March 22, 1879, they sent their 15 year old son to the Hamburg-Havre emigration port where he boarded the SS Herder and traveled to America. He docked and was processed at Castle Garden, New York April 16, 1879.
Mr Metzger moved to New Jersey working as an Express Clerk. He married Mary Horner on Nov 19, 1882 in Matawan, New Jersey Methodist Church. They had 7 children. He had two sisters that remained in Germany:
Maria Martha Metzger
Mathilde Friederike Wilhelmine Metzger
and parents remained in Germany.
In 1896 he married Ella C. Taylor and moved to Cleveland, Ohio working as a teamster and Janitor in the public schools.
The Family operated a Candle Making factory in Stuttgart, where he worked after school. With passage of Prussian Conscription laws earlier in the century, the family feared for Gustav and on March 22, 1879, they sent their 15 year old son to the Hamburg-Havre emigration port where he boarded the SS Herder and traveled to America. He docked and was processed at Castle Garden, New York April 16, 1879.
Mr Metzger moved to New Jersey working as an Express Clerk. He married Mary Horner on Nov 19, 1882 in Matawan, New Jersey Methodist Church. They had 7 children. He had two sisters that remained in Germany:
Maria Martha Metzger
Mathilde Friederike Wilhelmine Metzger
and parents remained in Germany.
In 1896 he married Ella C. Taylor and moved to Cleveland, Ohio working as a teamster and Janitor in the public schools.
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