Person:Gustave Pauly (1)

birth parents: Christian Rudolph and Wiebke Ohm

Gustave John was, by family legend, captured by Indians and later adopted by the Pauly family. This is historically quite possible, as there was a major Indian uprising in Minnesota in the summer of 1862 when Gustave John was 7. Additionally, he was absent from the John and Anna Pauly family in the 1860 census when he would have been 5 years old. He was with them in the 1870 Census.

A great-granddaughter recalls that her father said that John Gustave's family was in a wagon train when captured. She recalls her father finding the name Owen in a log.

A great-grandson recalls his father telling the story of the capture and adoption, and saying the original name, which sounded Irish or Scotch.

There does not seem to be any official record of this adoption, which might favor that it was a family adoption.

Gustave John's early childhood with the Paulys was in Chanhassen, MN. The family moved to Minneapolis in 1862, where his father John Pauly entered into the cooper business with Andrew Bumb, which trade and business young Gustave John learned.

The family attended the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church where Gustave John performed as a tenor in the choir and was cornetist in the band of the Young Crusaders Total Abstinence Society.

Gustave John entered in the hardware business, firm of Caster and Pauly, with his uncle Gustave L. Caster in DeGraff, MN in late 1879 or early 1880. (see 1880 US Census and Neill's History of the Minnesota Valley.)

Gustave John and Amelia Young were married in 1886, probably in Minneapolis. By 1889 Gustave John entered the Savings and Loan business and was a founder and Secretary of the Hennepin Savings and Loan Association in 1895, which post he served until his death.

Gustave John entrusted his life savings with his business associate John ___ to administer for the benefit of his family after his death. The money was embezzled in the 1920s.

The Hennepin Savings and Loan Association later merged with the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Minneapolis.

See also a news item on this website.

Captured by the Indians: reminiscences of pioneer life in Minnesota. By Minnie Buce Carrigan.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28lhbum01400%29%29:@@@$REF$

From Jan Klein:

I have these census records which may tell you a time of the adoption:  1857, Township #116, Carver, MN:  John and Anna Pauli; 1860, Chanhassen, Carver, MN:  John and Anna Paulie and a farm laborer by the name of William Baker; 1865, Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN:  John Pauley, Anna and Gustiff (no ages were given in 1865 census).  So he must have been adopted between 1860 and 1865 but it's not clear if it was in Minneapolis or Chanhassen.

A grandaughter writes:

The "rumor" based on what Amelia told my father (her son) is that Gustav John was adopted by John and Anna Maria when a couple (he a soldier and she a nurse) came through Chanhassen on their way to fight in the civil war. They also had a daughter. She was adopted by another family in Chanhassen. That family later moved to Iowa, no names, all of the records burned in the Catholic church in Chanhassen.

see

http://slicewiki.ancestortree.net/index.cgi/Gustave%20John%20Pauly

1.   Anon. Pauly, Rockwell, Cleveland, and Boncquet Families. (paulyfamily.org).