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| Format | Letter |
|---|---|
| Creator | Otterbach, Magdalena, 1851-1927 |
| Title | Magdalena Otterbach : Two Handwritten Letters and Genealogical Documents |
| MKI Annotation | Magdalena Otterbach was born April 1851 in Germany. In the 1880 census she was the housekeeper of Msgr. Matthew J. Joerger (1842-1901) in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. In 1905 she was in Milwaukee, and at some point after moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where she lived with the family of Msgr. Joerger's brother John. |
| Donated by | Fran Loeb Luebke. "The letters were found among documents that my mother, Rosemary (Urban) Loeb had collected from the home of William and Katherine Verhalen's daughter" in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. |
| Contents | Two letters written in Kurrent, one dated 20 Nov. 1925 and the other 21 Dec. 1925, both written from Leavenworth, Kansas. Information on the background of the letters (1 page) Genealogical information gathered from US and state censuses and Registration of Alien Enemies document (1 page) Photocopy of Registration Affidavit of Alien Female, 1918 (4 pages) Typed obituary from the Wichita Catholic Advance, Nov. 12, 1927 (1 page) |
| Call Number | FH Otterbach |