Henry Reinberg was born Heinrich Reimberg in Pratz, Canton de Rendange, Diekirch, Luxembourg March 12, 1821. His parents named two sons "Heinrich" so they called this younger one "Heng" while his older brother was called "Hary." In America the last name became Reinberg.
His parents were Mathias Reimburg and Maria Katherina /Catherine Heuardt Reimburg. They lived across from the Green-Loesch house in Pratz.
He married Katharina Beck November 25, 1848. Some say in Luxembourg but a translated account says shortly after his arrival in Chicago.
He and Katharina (named Americanized to "Catherine") were early settlers in Evanston, Cook County, IL. There was a divide in the area called the Ridge between Evanston and Rosehill. Along this Ridge early settlers located to keep clear of the water which had rested over adjacent low lying lands. He is mentioned in a book, "Cook County, Illinois, History and Biography" which tells this information.
The translated account (translated from Luxembourg dialect: The History of Preizerdaul (Preizerdaul=Pratz Valley) states the younger Heinrich sailed for the new world and shortly after his arrival married Katherina Beck who had arrived earlier with her brothers: (hereafter referred to as "the translation).
"...they established themselves on the Chicago Ridge like the other people from the Pratz Valley. Next to their house they had a field where they raised vegetables to sell at the market in Chicago. It was known that the Ridge, which was assigned/allocatedto the newly arrived Luxembourgers, was nothing more than a hill of sandy soil, which Lake Michigan had washed up over the course of thousands of years. It was poor people's land. but for the people from Pratz valley, who were totally used to heavy/difficult soil, the work in the sandy soil was a joy. The only things that were needed were water and fertilizer. Both were on hand in large amounts. Occasionally the Reimbergs also took flowers, along with vegetables, to the market, especally roses, which thrived splendidly in these soils and therefore sold well at the market. As a result, teh Reimbergs raised less and less vegetables and more flowers and above all roses. The vegetable garden gradually became a rose nursery. The good sales allowed the purchase of more fields, which was especially easy at the end of the 1850s, when many Luxembourers moved from teh Ridge west toward the Mississippi. The Reimbergs bought what land they could and built greenhouses, in order to have roses available also during the cold time of year. The rose nurseries grew and grew and they needed workers. Then in the year 1854 a sad letter arrived from the Pratz valley in which the desperate brother wrote that the small Helene had died of cholera and that they did not have a desire anymore to stay in a country which did not have healthy drinking water. A letter was sent to Luxembourg saying they should sell all their property in Pratz and come to Chicago.
So the Reimberg-Mahnen family [the older Heinrich "Hary" Reimberg who married Katharina Mahnen]set off and left the Pratz valley on 4 June 1855 and took a ship called "Leopold" from Antwerp."
The translation goes on to say the two brothers sent for theiir sisters, Helene and also Magdalena who had married Georg Wieter; together they did "a real pioneering work" on the Ridge. The business expanded and became too large; so they split. "the Wieter part became "Wieter Brothers Flowers" while the Ridge hill was called "Rosehill Havelook.".
The translation continues: "When Heinrich Reinburg died in the year 1878, seven grown children and not less than 104 carriages and buggies followed his coffin, as honor guard to the "Rose King of Chicago."The people from the Pratz valley of the ridge and from downtown stood on the side of the street and thought about the long way and the comet-like rise from the small Pratz house to this triumphal procession through the streets of Chicago. Though the price of this was 32 years hard work and death at age 59."
Also from the book, A HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS,: Between 1844 and 1847 the following settlers settled in the old Lake View Township:...mentions him: Henry Reinberg. (Lakeview, Cook County, IL).
Note: His brother, Henry "Hary" who later said for the New World also after his daughter died from the bad water where they were, they decided they didn't want to be in a country with bad water. It is sometimes confusing because the Heinrich / Henry called "Hary" was also married to a woman whose name was similar to Heng's wife's name, Katharina Mahnen.
He died in Chicago, Cook County, IL on February 19, 1880.
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His parents were Mathias Reimburg and Maria Katherina /Catherine Heuardt Reimburg. They lived across from the Green-Loesch house in Pratz.
He married Katharina Beck November 25, 1848. Some say in Luxembourg but a translated account says shortly after his arrival in Chicago.
He and Katharina (named Americanized to "Catherine") were early settlers in Evanston, Cook County, IL. There was a divide in the area called the Ridge between Evanston and Rosehill. Along this Ridge early settlers located to keep clear of the water which had rested over adjacent low lying lands. He is mentioned in a book, "Cook County, Illinois, History and Biography" which tells this information.
The translated account (translated from Luxembourg dialect: The History of Preizerdaul (Preizerdaul=Pratz Valley) states the younger Heinrich sailed for the new world and shortly after his arrival married Katherina Beck who had arrived earlier with her brothers: (hereafter referred to as "the translation).
"...they established themselves on the Chicago Ridge like the other people from the Pratz Valley. Next to their house they had a field where they raised vegetables to sell at the market in Chicago. It was known that the Ridge, which was assigned/allocatedto the newly arrived Luxembourgers, was nothing more than a hill of sandy soil, which Lake Michigan had washed up over the course of thousands of years. It was poor people's land. but for the people from Pratz valley, who were totally used to heavy/difficult soil, the work in the sandy soil was a joy. The only things that were needed were water and fertilizer. Both were on hand in large amounts. Occasionally the Reimbergs also took flowers, along with vegetables, to the market, especally roses, which thrived splendidly in these soils and therefore sold well at the market. As a result, teh Reimbergs raised less and less vegetables and more flowers and above all roses. The vegetable garden gradually became a rose nursery. The good sales allowed the purchase of more fields, which was especially easy at the end of the 1850s, when many Luxembourers moved from teh Ridge west toward the Mississippi. The Reimbergs bought what land they could and built greenhouses, in order to have roses available also during the cold time of year. The rose nurseries grew and grew and they needed workers. Then in the year 1854 a sad letter arrived from the Pratz valley in which the desperate brother wrote that the small Helene had died of cholera and that they did not have a desire anymore to stay in a country which did not have healthy drinking water. A letter was sent to Luxembourg saying they should sell all their property in Pratz and come to Chicago.
So the Reimberg-Mahnen family [the older Heinrich "Hary" Reimberg who married Katharina Mahnen]set off and left the Pratz valley on 4 June 1855 and took a ship called "Leopold" from Antwerp."
The translation goes on to say the two brothers sent for theiir sisters, Helene and also Magdalena who had married Georg Wieter; together they did "a real pioneering work" on the Ridge. The business expanded and became too large; so they split. "the Wieter part became "Wieter Brothers Flowers" while the Ridge hill was called "Rosehill Havelook.".
The translation continues: "When Heinrich Reinburg died in the year 1878, seven grown children and not less than 104 carriages and buggies followed his coffin, as honor guard to the "Rose King of Chicago."The people from the Pratz valley of the ridge and from downtown stood on the side of the street and thought about the long way and the comet-like rise from the small Pratz house to this triumphal procession through the streets of Chicago. Though the price of this was 32 years hard work and death at age 59."
Also from the book, A HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS,: Between 1844 and 1847 the following settlers settled in the old Lake View Township:...mentions him: Henry Reinberg. (Lakeview, Cook County, IL).
Note: His brother, Henry "Hary" who later said for the New World also after his daughter died from the bad water where they were, they decided they didn't want to be in a country with bad water. It is sometimes confusing because the Heinrich / Henry called "Hary" was also married to a woman whose name was similar to Heng's wife's name, Katharina Mahnen.
He died in Chicago, Cook County, IL on February 19, 1880.
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Henry Reinberg was born Heinrich Reimberg in Pratz, Canton de Rendange, Diekirch, Luxembourg March 12, 1821. His parents named two sons "Heinrich" so they called this younger one "Heng" while his older brother was called "Hary." In America the last name became Reinberg.
His parents were Mathias Reimburg and Maria Katherina /Catherine Heuardt Reimburg. They lived across from the Green-Loesch house in Pratz.
He married Katharina Beck November 25, 1848. Some say in Luxembourg but a translated account says shortly after his arrival in Chicago.
He and Katharina (named Americanized to "Catherine") were early settlers in Evanston, Cook County, IL. There was a divide in the area called the Ridge between Evanston and Rosehill. Along this Ridge early settlers located to keep clear of the water which had rested over adjacent low lying lands. He is mentioned in a book, "Cook County, Illinois, History and Biography" which tells this information.
The translated account (translated from Luxembourg dialect: The History of Preizerdaul (Preizerdaul=Pratz Valley) states the younger Heinrich sailed for the new world and shortly after his arrival married Katherina Beck who had arrived earlier with her brothers: (hereafter referred to as "the translation).
"...they established themselves on the Chicago Ridge like the other people from the Pratz Valley. Next to their house they had a field where they raised vegetables to sell at the market in Chicago. It was known that the Ridge, which was assigned/allocatedto the newly arrived Luxembourgers, was nothing more than a hill of sandy soil, which Lake Michigan had washed up over the course of thousands of years. It was poor people's land. but for the people from Pratz valley, who were totally used to heavy/difficult soil, the work in the sandy soil was a joy. The only things that were needed were water and fertilizer. Both were on hand in large amounts. Occasionally the Reimbergs also took flowers, along with vegetables, to the market, especally roses, which thrived splendidly in these soils and therefore sold well at the market. As a result, teh Reimbergs raised less and less vegetables and more flowers and above all roses. The vegetable garden gradually became a rose nursery. The good sales allowed the purchase of more fields, which was especially easy at the end of the 1850s, when many Luxembourers moved from teh Ridge west toward the Mississippi. The Reimbergs bought what land they could and built greenhouses, in order to have roses available also during the cold time of year. The rose nurseries grew and grew and they needed workers. Then in the year 1854 a sad letter arrived from the Pratz valley in which the desperate brother wrote that the small Helene had died of cholera and that they did not have a desire anymore to stay in a country which did not have healthy drinking water. A letter was sent to Luxembourg saying they should sell all their property in Pratz and come to Chicago.
So the Reimberg-Mahnen family [the older Heinrich "Hary" Reimberg who married Katharina Mahnen]set off and left the Pratz valley on 4 June 1855 and took a ship called "Leopold" from Antwerp."
The translation goes on to say the two brothers sent for theiir sisters, Helene and also Magdalena who had married Georg Wieter; together they did "a real pioneering work" on the Ridge. The business expanded and became too large; so they split. "the Wieter part became "Wieter Brothers Flowers" while the Ridge hill was called "Rosehill Havelook.".
The translation continues: "When Heinrich Reinburg died in the year 1878, seven grown children and not less than 104 carriages and buggies followed his coffin, as honor guard to the "Rose King of Chicago."The people from the Pratz valley of the ridge and from downtown stood on the side of the street and thought about the long way and the comet-like rise from the small Pratz house to this triumphal procession through the streets of Chicago. Though the price of this was 32 years hard work and death at age 59."
Also from the book, A HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS,: Between 1844 and 1847 the following settlers settled in the old Lake View Township:...mentions him: Henry Reinberg. (Lakeview, Cook County, IL).
Note: His brother, Henry "Hary" who later said for the New World also after his daughter died from the bad water where they were, they decided they didn't want to be in a country with bad water. It is sometimes confusing because the Heinrich / Henry called "Hary" was also married to a woman whose name was similar to Heng's wife's name, Katharina Mahnen.
He died in Chicago, Cook County, IL on February 19, 1880.
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His parents were Mathias Reimburg and Maria Katherina /Catherine Heuardt Reimburg. They lived across from the Green-Loesch house in Pratz.
He married Katharina Beck November 25, 1848. Some say in Luxembourg but a translated account says shortly after his arrival in Chicago.
He and Katharina (named Americanized to "Catherine") were early settlers in Evanston, Cook County, IL. There was a divide in the area called the Ridge between Evanston and Rosehill. Along this Ridge early settlers located to keep clear of the water which had rested over adjacent low lying lands. He is mentioned in a book, "Cook County, Illinois, History and Biography" which tells this information.
The translated account (translated from Luxembourg dialect: The History of Preizerdaul (Preizerdaul=Pratz Valley) states the younger Heinrich sailed for the new world and shortly after his arrival married Katherina Beck who had arrived earlier with her brothers: (hereafter referred to as "the translation).
"...they established themselves on the Chicago Ridge like the other people from the Pratz Valley. Next to their house they had a field where they raised vegetables to sell at the market in Chicago. It was known that the Ridge, which was assigned/allocatedto the newly arrived Luxembourgers, was nothing more than a hill of sandy soil, which Lake Michigan had washed up over the course of thousands of years. It was poor people's land. but for the people from Pratz valley, who were totally used to heavy/difficult soil, the work in the sandy soil was a joy. The only things that were needed were water and fertilizer. Both were on hand in large amounts. Occasionally the Reimbergs also took flowers, along with vegetables, to the market, especally roses, which thrived splendidly in these soils and therefore sold well at the market. As a result, teh Reimbergs raised less and less vegetables and more flowers and above all roses. The vegetable garden gradually became a rose nursery. The good sales allowed the purchase of more fields, which was especially easy at the end of the 1850s, when many Luxembourers moved from teh Ridge west toward the Mississippi. The Reimbergs bought what land they could and built greenhouses, in order to have roses available also during the cold time of year. The rose nurseries grew and grew and they needed workers. Then in the year 1854 a sad letter arrived from the Pratz valley in which the desperate brother wrote that the small Helene had died of cholera and that they did not have a desire anymore to stay in a country which did not have healthy drinking water. A letter was sent to Luxembourg saying they should sell all their property in Pratz and come to Chicago.
So the Reimberg-Mahnen family [the older Heinrich "Hary" Reimberg who married Katharina Mahnen]set off and left the Pratz valley on 4 June 1855 and took a ship called "Leopold" from Antwerp."
The translation goes on to say the two brothers sent for theiir sisters, Helene and also Magdalena who had married Georg Wieter; together they did "a real pioneering work" on the Ridge. The business expanded and became too large; so they split. "the Wieter part became "Wieter Brothers Flowers" while the Ridge hill was called "Rosehill Havelook.".
The translation continues: "When Heinrich Reinburg died in the year 1878, seven grown children and not less than 104 carriages and buggies followed his coffin, as honor guard to the "Rose King of Chicago."The people from the Pratz valley of the ridge and from downtown stood on the side of the street and thought about the long way and the comet-like rise from the small Pratz house to this triumphal procession through the streets of Chicago. Though the price of this was 32 years hard work and death at age 59."
Also from the book, A HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY ILLINOIS,: Between 1844 and 1847 the following settlers settled in the old Lake View Township:...mentions him: Henry Reinberg. (Lakeview, Cook County, IL).
Note: His brother, Henry "Hary" who later said for the New World also after his daughter died from the bad water where they were, they decided they didn't want to be in a country with bad water. It is sometimes confusing because the Heinrich / Henry called "Hary" was also married to a woman whose name was similar to Heng's wife's name, Katharina Mahnen.
He died in Chicago, Cook County, IL on February 19, 1880.
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