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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Etta Leihammer: Birth: 1872 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

  2. Albert W. Leihammer: Birth: 1874 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

  3. Bella Martha Leihammer: Birth: 1 JUN 1877 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

  4. Walther Leihammer: Birth: 24 SEP 1879 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

  5. Isabella Bella Ida: Birth: 10 OCT 1883 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

  6. William Harrison (Henry) Leihammer: Birth: 30 JUL 1892 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Death: 27 JAN 1972 in Milwaukee Wisconsin


Sources
1. Title:   Ship’s Manifest : BK Rhein
2. Title:   1900 Federal Census/Wil. Leihammer
3. Title:   1920 Federal Census
4. Title:   Marriage Registration/Will.Leihammer
5. Title:   Obituary Milwaukee JOUrnal
6. Title:   Certificate of Death/Wil. Leihammer

Notes
a. Note:   N241 Born in Prussia and immigrated with his parents and sisters in 1855. According to his obituary, he had to be tied to a mast of the ship to avoid being washed overboard. He enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Calvary on March 21 1864 and was a saddler by rank. He participated in “many battles” in the civil, according to the same obituary. He married after discharge. He and his wife had six children, four living to adulthood. His first occupation listed him being a carriage trimmer, later becoming a federal postal carrier, retiring when he was almost 75.


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