Philip Jacob Deuser

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Philip Jacob Deuser

Birth
Mensfelden, Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Hessen, Germany
Death
22 Oct 1874 (aged 59)
Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Son of Philipp Wilhelm Heinrich Deußer and Katharina Margaretha Schmidt, Philipp Jakob Deußer was baptized on Aug. 27, 1815 in the evangelische Pfarrkirche at Mensfelden, Amt Limburg, Nassau, with his godparents being Johann Jacob Deußer das Vaters Bruder, Catharina Philippina, widow of Johannes Schmidt, and Philipp Georg Kearnes, Maurer. His parents left Mensfelden on Sept. 26, 1834 with the intention of immigrating to Missouri in the United States. Having departed from Bremen, Germany, the family arrived in the port of Baltimore, Maryland on Jan. 2, 1835 aboard the brig Ulysses. They lived only briefly in Missouri before settling in Indiana in 1839. Philipp Jacob married Katharina Barbara Schlichter on May 24, 1840 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. His property was located on Market Street and in 1866 he and his son-in-law Martin Deutschmann helped construct the Charlestown Court House. A Democrat and a Presbyterian, details from his obituary reveal that he died of stomach cancer and was buried by the members of Isis Grange.
Son of Philipp Wilhelm Heinrich Deußer and Katharina Margaretha Schmidt, Philipp Jakob Deußer was baptized on Aug. 27, 1815 in the evangelische Pfarrkirche at Mensfelden, Amt Limburg, Nassau, with his godparents being Johann Jacob Deußer das Vaters Bruder, Catharina Philippina, widow of Johannes Schmidt, and Philipp Georg Kearnes, Maurer. His parents left Mensfelden on Sept. 26, 1834 with the intention of immigrating to Missouri in the United States. Having departed from Bremen, Germany, the family arrived in the port of Baltimore, Maryland on Jan. 2, 1835 aboard the brig Ulysses. They lived only briefly in Missouri before settling in Indiana in 1839. Philipp Jacob married Katharina Barbara Schlichter on May 24, 1840 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. His property was located on Market Street and in 1866 he and his son-in-law Martin Deutschmann helped construct the Charlestown Court House. A Democrat and a Presbyterian, details from his obituary reveal that he died of stomach cancer and was buried by the members of Isis Grange.