Person:Johann Baumberger (3)

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Johann (Frederick Lehmann) Baumberger
d.23 Sep 1903 Wadena, MN
m. 18 Sep 1829
  1. Jacob Baumberger1830 - 1830
  2. Johann (Frederick Lehmann) Baumberger1832 - 1903
  3. Vinzens Baumberger1834 - 1840
  4. Verena Baumberger1836 - 1837
  5. Albrecht Baumberger1838 - 1838
m. 5 Oct 1863
  1. Albert Lehmann
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Johann (Frederick Lehmann) Baumberger
Alt Name Frederic Lehmann
Gender Male
Birth[10] 2 Jan 1832 Koppigen, Bern, Switzerland
Christening? 8 Jan 1832 Koppigen, Bern, Switzerland
Marriage 5 Oct 1863 Hastings, Minnesotato Mary Margaret Roller
Death[11][12] 23 Sep 1903 Wadena, MNCause: Suicide. Hanged himself in the barn.
Burial[13] Wadena, MN

From: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Ancestry.com)

Johann Baumberger,age 24, arrived in New York aboard the H. Miller from Le Havre on April 20, 1855, carrying "one bag". Country of origin - Switzerland. Occupation - farmer. Next to him on the passenger list is Fred Leiber, also listed as farmer with Switzerland as country of origin. (Family legend said that Johann Baumberger took the name Fred Lehmann from a farmer he met on the boat)

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Immigrant ShipsTranscribers GuildShip H A MillerLeHavre, France to New York 20 April 1855

124 Johann Baumberger 24 m Suisse one bag -------------------------- ?Census 1857 Minnesota State Census. Hennepin County, St. Anthony. Frederick _____ age 22 Born Switzerland. No surname is listed but this information meshes with a family legend which asserts that Frederick Lehmann (aka Johann Baumberger) "went on to St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota. Here he changed his name"....(to Frederick)..... "and worked as a carpenter in and around St. Anthony Falls and built some of the first houses in St. Paul" - prior to his enlistment in the army in August, 1862. ----------------------- ?Census 1860 Minnesota Dakota Hastings. Jacob Kohler 27 Bavaria , Mary Kohler 22 Bavaria , Fred Leonard 25 Cabinet maker - Switzerland (Fred Leonard must be Fred Lehmann as Jacob Kohler appears as witness to marriage of Frederick Lehmann and Mary Roller on 5 Oct 1863)

References
  1. Civil War Pension and Military Papers for Frederick Lehmann. Co. F. 7th Regiment. Minnesota.
  2. New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957. (Ancestry.com).

    Johann Baumberger,age 24, arrived in New York aboard the H. Miller from Le Havre on April 20, 1855

    New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

  3. Census 1870 Minnesota Dakota Hastings.
  4. Census 1880 Minnesota Otter Tail Oak Valley.
  5. Census 1895 Minnesota Wadena Wadena.
  6. Census 1900 Minnesota Wadena Wadena.
  7. Census 1857 Minnesota State Census. Hennepin county, St. Anthony.
  8. Census 1860. Chicago, Illinois. Ward 5..
  9. Census 1860 Minnesota Dakota Hastings.

    Frederick Lehmann is listed as "Fred Leonard" living in household of Jacob Kohler (a witness to his 1863 marriage to Mary Roller)

  10. Koppigen civil records. (Civil Register , Koppigen, Berne, Switzerland)
    1/185.

    In this register he is found as a child born in 1832 but as there is no other information such as marriage, and no death date, both of which would have been stated, we must believe that he left the country.

  11. Wadena County. Clerk of District Court. 1903 Register of Deaths.
  12. Obituary of Frederick Lehmann.. (Wadena Pioneer Journal. Sept 25, 1903).
  13. Tombstone inscription in Wadena cemetery.