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Note: Written by Edna (Meyer) Bentz - "Heinrich Friedrich Hamann was born 14 Nov. 1848 in Gross Konigsforde, near Gettorf, Schleswig Holstein. His father was Christian Heinrich Friedrich Hamann and his mother was Dorothea Margaretha Clement. He was the fourth of six sons. The two oldest brothers Detlef Heinrich and Johann Friedrich remained in Schleswig Holstein. He was baptized Heinrich Christian Hamann. He emigrated to America with his older brother Christian Friedrich in 1869 coming direct to Omaha. Two younger brothers, Friedrich Christian and Wilhelm Friedrich came to America in 1870. Heinrich filed his Declaration of Intention for U.S. Citizenship in Omaha on the 19th of July 1870. He received his final citizenship papers on the 12 of March 1890. After attending school in Schleswig Holstein, Heinrich Friedrich devoted three years to the business of florist and gardener. Later, in 1867, he took up the carpenter/cabinet maker's trade. After coming to Omaha he secured a job as a carpenter. He worked on the first railroad bridge across the Missouri River from the Omaha side. The bridge was completed in 1872. In May of 1871 he went to Chicago with his younger brother Wilhelm. There he witnessed the big fire in October 1871. He escaped with his tools in a wheel-barrow. He and his brother became active in rebuilding of Chicago serving their journeyman apprenticeship until 1873 when they returned to Omaha. He was employed for a short time as a carpenter for the Union Pacific Railroad. Later in 1873 he and his brother Wilhelm formed a contracting business, The H.F. Hamann & Bro. 1t 2715 Leavenworth St. They advertised as Cabinet Makers, Carpenters and Contractors. They erected many residences in the following years. Later the partnership was dissolved. He was a charter member of First Lutheran Church in Omaha which was organized the 4th of May 1873. He built the first church building with his future brother-in-law, August Prinz as architect. The church was located at 11th and Jackson St. The building was dedicated on the 9th of November 1874. In 1883 the building was moved to 20th & Mason Streets. Here a basement, a steeple and a school building were added. Heinrich Friedrich also built St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 28th & Paker which was completely destroyed by the tornado that struck Omaha on the 23 of March 1913. A wedding was in progress at the time the tornado struck. Heinrich was sure the building would withstand the storm, but was devastated when he saw the destruction. He was also awarded the contract for carpenter work on the Municipal Auditorium at 15th and Howard which opened in June of 1904. On the 30th of August 1874 Heinrich Friedrich Hamann was married to Agatha Marina Staal (Stahl) at the home of the bride's sister and husband, Henrietta and August Prinz. The church was not completed until later that year. Rev. J. Hilgendorf, pastor performed the ceremony. They were blessed to be married 60 years. In 1894 he established a hand laundry in connection with a partner. In 1895 he bought his partner's interest and continued in the business. The business rapidly grew and developed, necessitating larger quarters which he secured between 27 and 28th and Leavenworth Streets. The Leavenworth Laundry (Old Reliable) used the latest scientific methods and built itself into a business of high quality service. His son Martin later joined him in the business. The couple's first home was at 10th & Pierce. Their second home was at 8th and Jackson and was later moved to their property at 28th & Leavenworth. The home place, laundry, store buildings and the Avenue Theater building were torn down to build Interstate 480. In about 1925 they moved into a new residence at 5233 Jones Street where the couple lived the rest of their lives. 9 children were born to this couple. Dorothea Henrietta Hamann born 11 Mar 1876 - died 1 Sept 1877. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 405 Henriette Johanna Hamann born 4 July 1878 - died 15 May 1951. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 540. Married 12 Jun 1904 at First Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE, Rev. Heinrich J.L. Gerland of Pueblo, CO. William Emil Edward Hamann born 27 Jun 1880 - died 1 Aug 1896 of Typhoid Fever. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 405 Dorothea Paulina Henrietta Hamann born 30 Nov. 1882 - died 9 Dec 1882. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 550 Maria Hanna Mathilda (Mayme) Hamann born 17 June 1884 - died 22 July 1972 in Grand Blanc, MI. Buried Prospect Hill. Married 17 Jun 1917 at First Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE to George Andrew Meyer of Birmingham, Alabama. Heinrich Tomas Hamann born 19 Feb 1889 - died 21 Jul 1889. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 405 Martin Lorenz Otto Hamann born 31 Oct 1890 - died 25 Apr 1963. Buried Hillcrest. Married 20 Apr. 1918 at First Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE to Gerturde Alma Harms of Omaha, NE. Agatha Maria Charlotte Hamann born 19 Nov. 1893 - died 21 Dec 1908. Died of burst appendix. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 405 Heinrich Friedrich Hamann died 6 months after retiring on 4 Dec 1934. Funeral services were held at First Lutheran Church by Lawrence Acker, pastor. Buried Prospect Hill, Lot 540." History of the State of Nebraska (1882) - "HENRY F. HAMANN, of H.F. Hamann & Bro., contractors and builders was born in in 1848, learned the trade of carpenter there, serving three years as an apprentice. He came to America in 1870 and located in Omaha, Neb., was employed one year as a journeyman carpenter, then engaged in same capacity in Chicago, Ills. ,for two and one-half years, returning to Omaha in the autumn of 1873, entered into partnership with his brother, William F. Hamann, and they have since been engaged in contracting and building. Mr. Hamann was married in Omaha in 1874 to Agatha Stahl, a native of . They have two children - Henrietta and William." Omaha: The Gate City and Douglas County Nebraska Volume II page 709 & 710. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1917. - "Henry F. Hamann. Henry F. Hamann, president of the Leavenworth Laundry Company, was born in in 1848 and is a son of Christian Henry Frederick and Dorothea (Clemant) Hamann, who were also natives of the fatherland. Mr. Hamann took up carpentering and followed that trade until his death. Both he and his wife spent their entire lives in and there reared their family of six sons, of whom Henry F. was the fourth. Three of his brothers, Christian F., Frederick C. and William F., also became residents of Omaha, but the first named is now deceased. After attending school in , Henry F. Hamann devoted three years to the business of florist and gardener. Later, in 1867, he took up the carpenter's trade, and in 1870 he crossed the Atlantic with his brother, Christian F., to America, making his way direct to Omaha, where he secured a position at the carpenter's trade. In May, 1871, he went to Chicago and was there during the fire of October, 1871, and became active in the rebuilding of the city, working at his trade there until 1873. He then returned to Omaha and took up carpentering as an employee of the Union Pacific Railway Company and subsequently joined his brother, William F., in a contracting business. They erected many residences and were active in that line until 1894, when Henry F. Hamann established a hand laundry in connection with a partner. In 1895, however, he bought his partner's interest and continued in the business on his own accord. His trade rapidly grew and developed, necessitating larger quarters, which he secured in the erection of his present building in 1914. The plant was completed and fully equipped as a model laundry and is one of the best managed in the city, meriting the patronage of particular housewives because its methods insured that clothes will be returned in a perfectly clean and sanitary condition. The Leavenworth Laundry is not only a business but is an institution of twenty-three years' standing and has made for itself a high place in the city's industries by a service that is entirely satisfactory. Scientific methods have been applied to the care of articles handled, so that there is very little wear and tear on the clothes. Mr. Hamann and his son give personal direction to the business and have developed it to a high point of perfection. The laundry building is large, light, airy and sanitary in every particular and the methods pursued are well nigh faultless. In August, 1874, Mr. Hamann was married to Miss Agatha M. Stahl, whose parents were natives of . They also came to Omaha in 1881, both having since passed away. Nine children have been born of this marriage, but six of these, as also a son-in-law, have passed away. Those still living are as follows. Henrietta H., who was born at Omaha in 1878, was married in 1904 to Rev. Henry J.C. Gerland, a Lutheran minister at Pueblo, Colorado. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Gerland, were residents of Chicago, where the father was assistant road master of the Lake Shore Railroad. Rev. and Mrs. Gerland became the parents of a son, Herbert Henry, who is now a pupil in the German Lutheran school at Twenty-fifth and Evans streets, in Omaha. Mrs. Gerland and her son have resided in Omaha since the death of the husband and father which occurred in 1905. The second daughter, Mayme, born in 1884 resided in Omaha up to the time of her marriage with George A. Meyer of Birmingham, Alabama. They are at present making their home in Dallas, Texas. the son Martin L. Hamann, who was born in 1890, attended the German Lutheran school of Omaha, as did his sister, and following his graduation therefrom attended the Omaha high school, where he completed a course, since which time he has been associated with his father in business. The family are communicants of the German Lutheran church and are people of genuine worth, enjoying the high regard of many with whom they are associated. Henry F. Hamann has worked his way upward from a humble start and is now the head of a growing and profitable business which figures prominently among the industries of the city." Obituary - The World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska 6 December 1934 - "Henry Hamann, 85, Early Omahan, Dies Henry F. Hamann, 85, resident of Omaha since 1869, died Tuesday afternoon at his home, 5233 Jones street. He had been ill a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Hamann celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary last August. Both were natives of , Mrs. Hamann, 80, coming to Omaha in 1873. During his early days here, Mr. Hamann was a carpenter and building contractor and for 40 years until his retirement this year was engaged in the laundry business. He founded the Leavenworth laundry. There are three children, Martin L., Mrs. Henry Gerland and Mrs. George A. Meyer of Omaha, and five grandchildren. The body is at the Hulse & Riepen mortuary." Obituary - Bee News 6 December 1934 "HAMANN-Henry F. entered into rest Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Gerland, 5233 Jones St., at the age of 86 years. He is survived by his widow, three children, Martin L., Mrs. Henry Gerland and Mrs. George A. Meyer, all of Omaha, and a brother, William, of Kearney, Neb. Funeral services Saturday 2:30 p.m. at the First Lutheran church, with Rev. Lawrence Acker officiating. Interment Prospect Hill cemetery. The remains are at the Hulse & Riepen Home for Funerals until Saturday, 10 am after which they will lie in state at the church." Obituary - From Tagliche Omaha Tribune - (translated) 7 December 1934 "Our esteemed fellow-citizen Mr. Henry F. Hamann died at the age of 86 years at his residence at 5233 Jones St. With him a German of the true, good, old type has gone from our middle who never forgot being of German descent in spite of having been in the United States for such a long period of time, and he always stood up for his mother-tongue. He was a loving husband and a true friend to his friends. Henry F. Hamann was born in Gettorf, , on 8 Nov. 1848, attended the country school and learned the trade of a construction cabinetmaker. In 1869 he emigrated to America with his older brother C.F. Hamann, and came directly to Omaha. Here he found a sizable German 'colony' to which - among others - Henry Lehmann and the Gebruder Starbach belonged; he found work as a construction cabinetmaker. In May 1871 he went to Chicago where he was an eyewitness of the big fire in October of that year; in 1873 Henry Hamann returned to Omaha, where his younger brother, Wm. F. Hamann, now living in Kearney, joined him and he established himself as a contractor. In 1894 he established the Hamann Old Reliable Laundry and built a handsome new building which the firm still owns until this day. A year ago Mr. Hamann retired from business and left (management of) the business to his son Martin. On 30 August 1874 he united for life with Miss Agathe M. Stahl and was able to celebrate his 60th wedding anniversary on 30 August of this year. The deceased was an active member of the First Luth. Church 31st and Jackson Streets; he was one of the founders of the First German Luth. Church, which was then on 11th and Jackson Sts.; he himself had built this church. Mr. Hamann is survived by his wife Agatha and the daughters Mrs. Henriette Garland, Mrs. George A. Meyer, and a son, Martin L., as well as 5 grandchildren. Old age claimed the life of this superb gentleman. The body is at Hulse and Riepen Mortuary; funeral service will be on Saturday, 2:30 p.m. in the First Luth. Church at 31st and Jackson Sts., Minister Acker officiating. Burial will be on Prospect Hill Cemetery."
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