Born in Bredenfelde, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, my great grandfather, Karl Rudolf Friederich Dörnbrack was the son of Sophia Spietz and John Dörnbrack. Immigrating to the U.S. with his parents and brothers in late 1884, they settled in Orrville, Ohio and changed his name to Charles William Denbrock.
As a young, single man, starting in 1900, he lived with his brother, William, in a succession of boarding houses on Chestnut, Exchange and Brown streets in Akron, Ohio. City directories show his 1901 employer as Whitman & Barnes Mfg., working there as a machinist/drill works operator until at least 1917, according to his WWI draft card. Eventually he moved on to the Mechanical M & M Company, where he was working with his son, Jack, at the time of his death.
Charles married my grandmother Cora Scanlon on January 2, 1907. After eight years living on Raymond St., the Denbrocks eventually made their home at 595 Edgewood Avenue from 1916 to 1939. Cora died of heart disease in 1935 at the rather young age of 52, leaving Charles to finish raising his two teenage sons alone. Charles passed less than four years laters after two thirds of his body was burned in a fire believed to be caused by a gas leak ignited by lighting a cigarette. I never knew the man nor did my father speak much of him. Their home on Edgewood Avenue in Akron, Ohio still stands today.
As a young, single man, starting in 1900, he lived with his brother, William, in a succession of boarding houses on Chestnut, Exchange and Brown streets in Akron, Ohio. City directories show his 1901 employer as Whitman & Barnes Mfg., working there as a machinist/drill works operator until at least 1917, according to his WWI draft card. Eventually he moved on to the Mechanical M & M Company, where he was working with his son, Jack, at the time of his death.
Charles married my grandmother Cora Scanlon on January 2, 1907. After eight years living on Raymond St., the Denbrocks eventually made their home at 595 Edgewood Avenue from 1916 to 1939. Cora died of heart disease in 1935 at the rather young age of 52, leaving Charles to finish raising his two teenage sons alone. Charles passed less than four years laters after two thirds of his body was burned in a fire believed to be caused by a gas leak ignited by lighting a cigarette. I never knew the man nor did my father speak much of him. Their home on Edgewood Avenue in Akron, Ohio still stands today.
Born in Bredenfelde, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, my great grandfather, Karl Rudolf Friederich Dörnbrack was the son of Sophia Spietz and John Dörnbrack. Immigrating to the U.S. with his parents and brothers in late 1884, they settled in Orrville, Ohio and changed his name to Charles William Denbrock.
As a young, single man, starting in 1900, he lived with his brother, William, in a succession of boarding houses on Chestnut, Exchange and Brown streets in Akron, Ohio. City directories show his 1901 employer as Whitman & Barnes Mfg., working there as a machinist/drill works operator until at least 1917, according to his WWI draft card. Eventually he moved on to the Mechanical M & M Company, where he was working with his son, Jack, at the time of his death.
Charles married my grandmother Cora Scanlon on January 2, 1907. After eight years living on Raymond St., the Denbrocks eventually made their home at 595 Edgewood Avenue from 1916 to 1939. Cora died of heart disease in 1935 at the rather young age of 52, leaving Charles to finish raising his two teenage sons alone. Charles passed less than four years laters after two thirds of his body was burned in a fire believed to be caused by a gas leak ignited by lighting a cigarette. I never knew the man nor did my father speak much of him. Their home on Edgewood Avenue in Akron, Ohio still stands today.
As a young, single man, starting in 1900, he lived with his brother, William, in a succession of boarding houses on Chestnut, Exchange and Brown streets in Akron, Ohio. City directories show his 1901 employer as Whitman & Barnes Mfg., working there as a machinist/drill works operator until at least 1917, according to his WWI draft card. Eventually he moved on to the Mechanical M & M Company, where he was working with his son, Jack, at the time of his death.
Charles married my grandmother Cora Scanlon on January 2, 1907. After eight years living on Raymond St., the Denbrocks eventually made their home at 595 Edgewood Avenue from 1916 to 1939. Cora died of heart disease in 1935 at the rather young age of 52, leaving Charles to finish raising his two teenage sons alone. Charles passed less than four years laters after two thirds of his body was burned in a fire believed to be caused by a gas leak ignited by lighting a cigarette. I never knew the man nor did my father speak much of him. Their home on Edgewood Avenue in Akron, Ohio still stands today.
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