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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Kaess, Brian Paul |
| Title, Monographic | Kaess / Ochiltree / Swartz Family History |
| Place of Publication | [Durango, Mexico] |
| Publisher | the author |
| Date of Publication | 2017 |
| Date of Copyright | 2012 |
| Extent of Work | [83] |
| Abstract | Families referred to in this genealogy with German backgrounds: Kurtz (Rev. Johann Nicolaus Kurtz emigrated in 1745 from Luetzellinden, Nassau-Weilberg; died in Baltimore, Maryland); Goering (Rev. Jacob Goering, Jr., was born 1755 in York, Pennsylvania); Haller (emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania, then to Virginia. John Jacob Haller served in the York County, Pennsylvania, militia during the American Revolutionary War. Dr. Jacob Draper Haller was a surgeon in the Confederate army); Nye (Priscilla Malinda Nye, born 1805, and married to Dr. Jacob Draper Haller, was Pennsylvania Dutch); Eschenfelter (Pennsylvania Dutch, emigrated to Pennsylvania then settled in Virginia); Swarz/Swartz (German-American family. John Swartz, born 1792, married Hannah Eschenfelter, also born 1792. The Swartz family of this history lived predominantly in Virginia. Joseph Godfrey Swartz served in the Confederate army). Swartz's served during WW2 and other wars and conflicts); Kulhanek (origins in Germany, emigrated to Venezuela and then settled in America before 1970); Kaess (Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess born 1947 in Heutingsheim, Germany; emigrated to America in 1965; died 1972 in Chicago, Illinois. Father of the author, Brian Paul Kaess, and his twin brother, Garret Thomas Kaess). Other family surnames in this history: Ochiltree, with origins in Scotland; Leech, Kyle, Gibboney, Baldwin, Major, Mansfield, Dawson, Langley, Yellowlees, Watkins, Gallerizzo, Edvalson, Norton, Wutzke, Villagomez, Anderson, Altschuler, Elliott, Ellsberry, Brown, Dorschke (family located in Germany), Urbina (Spanish-speaking family located in Durango, Mexico). |
| Notes | Donated by Brian Paul Kaess. Copyright 2012, revised 2017. Updated 2018 to include photos of Gerd Edwin Paul Kaess, Brian Paul Keass, Mayte Urbina Pereda, Elizabeth Major Swartz, Evie Haller Gibboney, Friedrich Emil Kaess and Anna Berta Falkenecker, Garret Thomas Kaess, Margaret Jane Swartz, Juleanne Kaess, Margaret Jean Ochiltree Swartz, Marie Ellen Dawson, Paul Jesus Kaess, Newell T. K. Swartz, Paul Ernst Kaess, and Nicholas Todd Kaess. |
| Call Number | FH Kaess |
| MKI Terms | Family history/ Kaess/ Swartz/ Ochiltree/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans |