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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Title, Monographic | Reinig Family History |
| Contents | Two pages detailing history of Leonard Reinig and Margarethe Schafer Reinig; also a copy of Margarethe Schafer's cookbook, Allgemeines Deutsches Kochbuch für alle Stände (Leipzig & Berlin: Amelang's Verlag, 1866). |
| Abstract | Leonhard Reinig (1839-1910) was born in Diedesfeld, Germany, one of eleven children. The five youngest children immigrated to the US and settled in various places including Seattle, WA; Helena, MT; Portland, OR; and Iowa. Leonhard / Leonard came to the US in 1862, and first went to Portland, Oregon where his younger sister Franziska (Fanny) lived. He learned the bakery trade in Dallas, Oregon, and also learned a little Chinook, a Pacific Northwest Native American language; Leonard went to Seattle in 1869. In Seattle, Leonard was one of three German bakers, along with Andrew W. Piper and Mr. Preussing. He developed his bakery business into a grocery store, and owned other commercial building and apartment buildings. He sold the grocery store in 1889 and relocated to Snoqualmie, WA. Leonard married Margarethe Schaefer in 1876 in Satsop, WA, where her family had lived since moving from Cross Plains, WI, in 1871. Margarethe was born in 1850 in Springfield, WI, the first child of John Dionis Schafer and Margarethe Schumacher Schafer. Her parents had come to Wisconsin in 1847; her mother died in 1852, and her father left to travel to South America and California, returning to Wisconsin and his two children in 1860. In 1868 he married widow Anna Bollenbeck Muller, adding her three children to his own two. The blended family moved to Satsop, WA, in 1871, when Margarethe was 21. Much of the Schafer family history is detailed in Voices from the Past: John Dennis Schafer Family Letters, 1842-1898, written and published by Sue Schafer in 2009. This book is held at the Wisconsin Historical Society’s library. |
| Donated by | Leslie Norton, 2022 |
| Call Number | FH Reinig |