Photocopy of References to the household of Rev. Carl O. Engler in the 1900 North Dakota Census

Note: Carl Engler's references are on lines 15 through 19, page 2A, Towhship 141, Range 83, Oliver County, North Dakota, enumerated 4, 5, & 7 June 1900. Carl Engler's wife, Helena, was Martha Bartolicius's sister.

According to this census, the head of household was Carl O. Engler, a white male born March 1859, aged forty-one years, married fifteen years, born in Germany, where both his mother and father also were born. He immigrated to the US in 1888, had been here twelve years, and was naturalized in PA. His occupation was "Preacher." He had not been unemployed, and could read, write, and speak English. He owned, rather than rented, his home, which was not mortgaged and was a farm further reported on farm schedule 36. His wife, Helena Engler, was described as a white female born April 1860, aged forty years. She had three children, all dead. [Which doesn't explain Mina.] She was born in Russia, [Prussia?] as were her mother and father. She immigrated to the US in 1888, and had been here twelve years. She could read, write, and speak English. [According to her daughter, Mina, she could not read English handwriting.] Also in the Engler household was Mina Engler, "Lodger," a white female born March 1894, aged six years. She had been born in North Dakota, but both of her parents were born in Russia [Prussia?]. [She was, presumably, their daughter. She refered to them in her letters as Mama and Pa.] There also were two farm laborers, Henry Grossgebauer and Anton Schonlein. Grossgebauer was twenty-two years old, born in Germany as were his parents, immigrated in 1889, and he could read, write and speak English. Schonlein was fifteen and born in North Dakota, although his parents had been born in Germany. He could read, write, and speak English.