Father: Martin Spiegelberg
Mother: Martha Elizabeth Pforr
Spouse: Barbara Huesner
Johan, Olive, George W., Henry, Barbara, Elizabeth, Katherine, Adam
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Aged 61y, 5m, 3d.
J. H. Beers, 1894, Book - "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio", pp. 1143-1144
JOHN SPIEGELBERG, grandfather of William H., was born, reared and married in Germany. Coming with his wife to the United States in this country in Norwich, Connecticut, and there two children (twins), George W. and a daughter, Olive, Mrs. Adam Stang, of Elyria township, were born. The following spring he started westward with his family, his original point of destination having been Fort Worth, Indiana. While on Lake Erie, a storm drove their vessel into Lorain harbor, and all the passengers disembarked. He hunted up a friend from the old country, and from him secured help and employment. Working with persistent energy, he accumulated money and subsequently bought, in Amherst township, the farm on which he spent the closing years of his life. He married, in the Fatherland Barbara Heisner, who died on the home farm in Lorain county.
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Father: Martin Spiegelberg
Mother: Martha Elizabeth Pforr
Spouse: Barbara Huesner
Johan, Olive, George W., Henry, Barbara, Elizabeth, Katherine, Adam
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Aged 61y, 5m, 3d.
J. H. Beers, 1894, Book - "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio", pp. 1143-1144
JOHN SPIEGELBERG, grandfather of William H., was born, reared and married in Germany. Coming with his wife to the United States in this country in Norwich, Connecticut, and there two children (twins), George W. and a daughter, Olive, Mrs. Adam Stang, of Elyria township, were born. The following spring he started westward with his family, his original point of destination having been Fort Worth, Indiana. While on Lake Erie, a storm drove their vessel into Lorain harbor, and all the passengers disembarked. He hunted up a friend from the old country, and from him secured help and employment. Working with persistent energy, he accumulated money and subsequently bought, in Amherst township, the farm on which he spent the closing years of his life. He married, in the Fatherland Barbara Heisner, who died on the home farm in Lorain county.
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