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Johann Heinrich Severinghaus
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Johann Heinrich Severinghaus |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
12 Aug 1829 |
Hannover, Niedersachsen, GermanyWaltrub Amie Malgarten or Severinghausen |
| Occupation? |
Abt 1850 |
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United StatesChina shop owner or worker |
| Marriage |
12 Feb 1856 |
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United Statesto Louisa Clara Newkirk |
| Occupation? |
Abt 1870 |
Justice of Piece, County Treasurer and County Squire |
| Residence[1] |
1880 |
Ripley, Indiana, United StatesLanghery, Farmer |
| Death? |
5 Jan 1883 |
Batesville, Ripley, Indiana, United States |
| Burial? |
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Cross Roads, Ripley, Indiana, United States |
| Religion? |
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Lutheran |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005).
Online publication - Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880.T9, 1,454 rolls. Langhery, Ripley, Indiana, ED 158, roll T9_307, page 469.1000, image 0780.
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JOHANN HEINRICH (JOHN HENRY) SEVERINGHAUS.
Born Aug. 12, 1829 in Waltrub Amie Malgarten in Hanover, Germany, the oldest son of Johann Diedrich Severinghaus. He and his older sister, Mary, were the first two of the family to come to America. They set up a china shop (apparently under Mary's direction) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and made enough money to bring the whole family over to join them. John Henry was apparently a good businessman and good at bookkeeping.
On Feb. 12, 1856, he married Louisa Clara Newkirk in Cincinnati. (She may have been the younger sister of Fred Newkirk who married Elizabeth Severinghaus.) She, too, had been born in Germany on Feb. 10, 1839.
On Mar. 14, 1863 he purchased the farm hear Batesville, Ind. (see details on page l) and moved his family there to join his elderly parents and Leila them work the land. He soon became involved in business in Batesville and had a tin shop next to the present Herald Tribune office. He became Justice of the Peace in Batesville and then Squire of Ripley County and was known to everyone as "Squire". He was also, at one time, Treasurer of the County. This meant that he frequently had to ride on horseback to Versailles, the County seat of Ripley County (15 to 20 miles away) to deliver the public funds. (On at least one occasion he narrowly eluded robbers, whom he spotted ahead beside a woods, by spurring his horse at the last minute to get away.)
After his death, on Jan. 5, 1883, his wife, Louisa, continued to live on the farm until she sold it to Philip Wuestefeld on July 27, 1898, and went to live with her daughter, Emily Beck, in Batesville. She died on Jan. 21, 1917. Most of John Henry's family were Lutherans and both he and his wife are buried in St. Paul's Lutheran Church cemetery at Cross Roads, near Batesville, Ind..
One Severcousin, Herman Fisher, was still living in Voerdan, Germany in 1973.
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