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| Name Wilmar Finger #11152 |
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| Born 18 Dec 1854 |
Place Teutschenthal, Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany) |
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| Died 19 Jun 1922 |
Place Missouri |
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Buried
| Father | Mother Wilhelmine Lentzsch - #11160 |
| Spouse Liberta Telle 1861-1938 #11153 |
Date abt 1881 |
Place Germany |
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2 Arthur Wilhelm Finger 23 Mar 1884
3 Hugo Ferdinand Finger 21 May 1886
4 Otto Michael Finger 4 Jan 1890
5 Hedwig "Hattie" Ida Finger 10 Nov 1892
6 Meta Selma Finger Mar 1898
7 Theodore Walter Finger abt 1901
Wilmar and his wife Liberta settled in Perry County, Missouri in the fall of 1883, buying 200 acres just south of the small town of Seventy-six for $1,300. Their first son Paul was born earlier in Germany and came over after the couple settled.
Wilmar was the Director of the Union Public School Board for a time in the early 1900s. He was known as a 'gentleman's farmer,' one who mostly rented out his land.
His main occupation was as a salesman and distributor of a St. Louis German newspaper: the Westliche Post. In additon, the couple sold timber from their farmland and used their large farmhouse as a place for travelers to board from nearby Seventy-six landing. - Richard Finger
Found Willmar Finger age 28 and his wife Liberta age 21 on the passenger list of the ship German S. S. Westphalia, departing Germany on 8 May 1883 for New York.
Found him on the 1900 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 72 img 34) as Wilmar Finger age 46, farmer.
Found him on the 1910 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 58 img 15) as Wilmar Finger age 54, farmer. Came to the U.S in 1883. Also in his household is Beatrice J. Joyce age 36, single, boarder.
Found him on the 1920 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 63 img 20) as Wilmer Finger age 64, farmer.
Wilmar was the Director of the Union Public School Board for a time in the early 1900s. He was known as a 'gentleman's farmer,' one who mostly rented out his land.
His main occupation was as a salesman and distributor of a St. Louis German newspaper: the Westliche Post. In additon, the couple sold timber from their farmland and used their large farmhouse as a place for travelers to board from nearby Seventy-six landing. - Richard Finger
Found Willmar Finger age 28 and his wife Liberta age 21 on the passenger list of the ship German S. S. Westphalia, departing Germany on 8 May 1883 for New York.
Found him on the 1900 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 72 img 34) as Wilmar Finger age 46, farmer.
Found him on the 1910 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 58 img 15) as Wilmar Finger age 54, farmer. Came to the U.S in 1883. Also in his household is Beatrice J. Joyce age 36, single, boarder.
Found him on the 1920 Brazeau, Perry, Missouri census (dist 63 img 20) as Wilmer Finger age 64, farmer.
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| Wilhelmine Lentzsch |
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