John Frambach Stoveken Sr.

   Cause of his death was Myocarditis, chronic.³

   Another name for John was John Frambach.¹

  Research Notes:

I connected John Stoveken to Francis Stoveken as an adopted parent. This has not been proven. However dates seem to be close and she was living in Outagamie cty in 1880. (This will require more research) Francis Stoveken was living in Milwaukee in 1859 - It appears she is a wife of Anton Stoveken with occupation of "turner" (I suspect wood turner) This would match with John being a Flour Miller in Milwaukee from 1855 to 1865 They are the only 2 people named Stoveken in Milwaukee in 1859. Other than Barnard Stoveken who was a Shoemaker (May be coincidence but his older sister stayed with a family named Roby was also in the shoe and leather business) Francis Stoveken was in Outagamie cty in the 1880 census listed as the Mother in law of the Claspill family. A Claspill married John's Brother Henry. The Claspills were originally from Indiana. Several Claspills are listed in Kaukauna after this time all related.



Household Record 1880 United States Census Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
…John STOVEKEN Self M Male W 37 NY Reprinte Pulp Mill PRUSSIA NY
…Gertrude STOVEKEN Wife M Female W 36 WI Keeping House PRUSSIA PRUSSIA
…John STOVEKEN Son S Male W 12 WI At School NY WI
…Mary Ann STOVEKEN Dau S Female W 11 WI At School NY WI
…Peter STOVEKEN Son S Male W 9 WI At School NY WI
…Joseph STOVEKEN Son S Male W 7 WI At School NY WI
…Charles STOVEKEN Son S Male W 5 WI NY WI
…Gertrude STOVEKEN Dau S Female W 3 WI NY WI
…Jenny ESLER Other S Female W 17 WI Servant WI PRUSSIA

The book on Outagamie history lists John Sr. as a Half-brother to Col Frambach (This has been proven incorrect and was a full natural brother but took on the name of Stoveken from adopted/foster parents)

Per my mothers recall: John was adopted and came to the US with a Minister. (This seems to be proven false in that they were living with is natural father in Racine when his father died).

His mother had died before they moved from Herkimer NY where he was born. His father died a few years later while in the Racine area. As his sister and brother kept the Frambach name being older). He apparently took on his caregivers name in that He would have been 12 years old at the time. His younger sister became a nun in the sisters of Charity and moved near Buffalo NY. His older sister married into Eastland family and settled in South Western Wisconsin.

The address of Anton and Francis Stoveken was within 4 blocks of the Flour mills in Milwaukee. Written bio's show that John was involved in flour and Feed production in Milwaukee prior to him moving to Kaukauna area. When He moved to Kaukauna he started a Flour mill.

John Stovekin conducted a grist-mill there; it was a building three stories high and had two run of stone; the capital invested represented $12,000. Deidrich conducted a saw-mill there which had a capacity of 30,000 feet in twenty-four hours. Reuter Brothers owned a spoke factory, and had invested $10,000. An immense business was done at this time in Kaukauna in hard wood logs and railroad ties; 20,000 ties were marketed there in the winter of 1868-70.

John Stovekin's flour mill was burned in 1871 and the next year the Frambach and Stovekin paper mill was started.



EAGLE MILL KAUKAUNA Outagamie 2611 1873 FRAMBACH, H. A. & STOVEKIN, JOHN

At Kaukauna in 1875 were Reuter & Bros., Hub and Spoke factory; Stovekin's sawmill, Fred Mundinger's hotel; Colonel Kidder, U. S. engineer in charge of the public works; Hannah Deidrick an old settler of Kaukauna, died at this time: the new and fine drawbridge was going up.

Mr. Stovekin's new flouring mill at Kaukauna was almost ready in November, 1878.

John was a partner in the Badger paper mills of Kaukauna before moving to Niagara.

John moved to Niagara WI in 1889 Created a Dam on the Menominee river and created a papermill on the location of Kimberly Clark Paper Mills.

One of Niagara's earliest settlers, John Stoveken Sr., put in a small pulp mill in 1889. This was purchased and enlarged by the Badger Paper Company of Kaukauna in 1890, and in 1899 rebuilt and again enlarged by Kimberly-Clark to become one of the largest and highest speed mills in the U.S. at that time. The Niagara Paper Company today maintains a large labor force, and is a major strength in the economy of the community.

His brother Mr. Frambach was a Colonel in the Confederate Army as a Secret service agent. He was a Private while at Shilo serving for the Tenessee Regiment under Logan, Brayman and others. He was promoted in Arkansas as Chief of the secret service and promoted through Ranks to Colonel. In 1870 He moved from St. Louis to Kaukauna WI. He then Joined with his brother John Stoveken to build the first paper mill in Kaukauna.

In the summer and fall of 1875, Day & Call, contractors, had at work on the improvements at Kaukauna., from 150 to 400 men.

The dam was built by Knapp & Gillan and was 14 feet wide and 580 feet long. John Stovekin was making in September three tons of straw paper per day. At his saw mill he was turning out large quantities of lumber for the dams at Little Chute and Cedars; he made large quantities of oak felloes. John P. Deitrich rebuilt the bridge from the island to the Buchanan shore

Mr. Stovekin's new flouring mill at Kaukauna was almost ready in November, 1878.

John Stovekin's flour mill was burned in 1871 and the next year the Frambach and Stovekin paper mill was started

In July, 1878, Ward Patterson was instantly killed by the bursting of a whirling stone in Frambach & Stovekin's paper mill.

Town of Niagara Includes unincorporated village of Faithorn and the Village of Niagara


1889 - John Stoveken, Sr., first settler and first to attempt to harness the Lower Quinnesec Falls on the Menominee River, established a small pulp mill here.
…1910 - Town of Niagara formed from part of Town of Amberg.
…1913 - Village of Niagara incorporated.
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Town of Pembine Includes the unincorporated communities of Pembine, Chapin, Hardy, Holmes Junction, Kremlin, Prest and Van Horne.

1847 - Named by government surveyors for the Pemene-Bon-Won River flowing through the area. Pemene is a native word for cranberries.

1914 - Town of Pembine established. G.C. Phelps first representative to county board.

One of Niagara's earliest settlers, John Stoveken Sr., put in a small pulp mill in 1889. This was purchased and enlarged by the Badger Paper Company of Kaukauna in 1890, and in 1899 rebuilt and again enlarged by Kimberly-Clark to become one of the largest and highest speed mills in the U.S. at that time. The Niagara Paper Company today maintains a large labor force, and is a major strength in the economy of the community.


Ancestry of John Stoveken From: sportsaholic@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:35 PM
To: tduescher@subnet-tech.com
Subject: Re: Ancestry of John Stoveken

The reason I asked is because there is a John with Gertrude in the 1870 and 1880 census in Kaukauna age 27, then 37, both say he was born in New York. Then in 1900, there is a John Stoveken, married to Elizabeth, in Milwaukee. born New York, age 58. Two children, Margarette 16, Katharine 13. It says he is married 17 years which would be 1883 and age 41. I would think at this age of 41it might be his second marriage, but I don't know if he is the same John. His birth says November 1841.

Katherine PER married John FRAMBACH abt 1865, Caseville,Grant Co., Wisc. Any information would be appreciated. I have been researching FRAMBACH family and this is a new name to me. Please contact me. John F. FRAMBACH (Tom D. Note - There is no known stories about any Marriage of John before Gertrude Diedrich. But I will leave this here as a possibility)

From: Tom Duescher
To: sportsaholic@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: RE: Ancestry of John Stoveken

I don't have any information showing that John Sr. remarried after Gertrude's death. After his Son John Jr died , John's wife Margaret remarried to a Johnson.



772 HISTORY OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY
appointed to the latter position October 1, 1903. Mr. Hoyt is well known Kaukauna., and is a member of the Elks and Masonic fraternities. The mill property now occupied by The Union Bag and Paper Company was originally built in 1882 by Colonel H. A. Frambach and his half-brother, John Stovekin, and was burned twice, the last time in 1888, and it has passed through the hands of the Frambach Paper Company, the Kaukauna Paper Company, the Van Nortwick Paper Company, and the Western Paper Bag Company, which latter concern acquired it in 1892. In 1899 this firm sold out to The Union Bag and Paper Company, and during the following year the latter company moved from Batavia, Illinois, where it had been formerly located, to Kaukauna, and added another story to the structure, also building two warehouses, the factory now covering a floor space of 138,000 square feet in the main buildings, besides owning a large boiler house, barn and smaller buildings.

The water power used amounts to 1660 horse-power, and they have auxiliary steam engines of 400 horse-power. The product of the company is shipped west of Ohio and the Great Lakes. One hundred and forty people are employed in manufacturing seven tons of ground wood pulp and the output of the factory, which manufactures twenty-five tons of paper daily and has a capacity of 4,000,000 bags per diem. All grades and sizes of paper bags are made.

And Schlaefer, and from 1882 until 1891 was in the employ of Kimberly & Clark. Then, in association with Lyman Barnes, C. B. Clark and Colonel Frambach, he organized the Pulp Wood Supply Company and continued with that concern as manager until the organization of the Riverside Fiber Company, of which he was secretary, treasurer and manager until his death in 1910, when his son, S. W. Murphy succeeded him as secretary and treasurer of the present company.

Undaunted by the apparent loss, Mr. Raught set about to reorganize the concern, and having won the confidence of the patrons of the office and the men of means of the city, was successful in keeping the, paper and the plant running no issue of the paper having ever been missed, a new firm known as C. E. Raught & Co. being organized with Col. H. A. Frambach, president of the First National Bank, lending his name and financial support as the company end of the concern. In a few years The, linmes establishment was placed on a safe and sure footing and Mr. Raught assumed

Mr. Stovekin's new flouring mill at Kaukauna was almost ready in November, 1878.
John Stovekin's flour mill was burned in 1871 and the next year the Frambach and Stovekin paper mill was started.

Sentiment was practically unanimous in its favor. On April 14, 1885, the first meeting of the common council of the city of Kaukauna was held at Duggans' Hall, pursuant to the call of his honor, Mayor Frambach. Steele, Vandenberg, Sullivan, Langlois, Mitchell, Walker, Kribs, Beck, McCarty and Jansen were aldermen. The first year was of necessity a year of beginnings, and in only a slightly lesser degree one of accomplishment. Ordinances were framed and passed. Streets, alleys, sidewalks, drainage, fire and police protection received prompt attention, each involving a thousand details.

In 1885, Col. I-. A. Frambach and others founded the Manufacturers' Bank of Kaukauna.

In 1870 Mr. Reith kept a hotel in Kaukauna. Nichols & Co.. conducted a stave factory, they had invested about $20,000; their .capacity was 18,000 staves and 16,000 heads finished ready for hoops. John Stovekin conducted a grist-mill there; it was a building three stories high and had two run of stone; the capital invested represented $12,000. Deidrich conducted a saw-mill there which had a capacity of 30,000 feet in twenty-four hours.

The Meade-Edwards water power was well in hand by 1881. The big paper and pulp mill of Col. Frambach was in operation.

The paper mill was built at Kaukauna in 1873-4; the main building was 50x50 feet three stories high; machine room 26x80 feet: it was built under the supervision of John Stovekin; three water wheels were used, the steam boiler had about 70 horse power; four boiling tubs were kept employed all the time, in sections of two.

Otto Runte was merchant at Kaukauna in November, 1875; Rademacher & Eiting conducted a meat market; Tom, Dick and Harry had gone to the pineries; the Smith boys shot and killed a deer five years old; Mr. Bautermore leased the Mundinger hotel property; J. Stovekin & Co., hired several teams to haul straw to his paper mill; Konrad's Hall was a popular resort for dancing parties; Weinfeldt shipped car loads of sheep to market; Hilgenberg had a store there; Framlbaugh & Co., conducted a dry goods store; Supple's boot and shoe store was burned.

At Kaukauna in 1875 were Reuter & Bros., Hub and Spoke factory; Stovekin's sawmill, Fred Mundinger's hotel; Colonel Kidder, U. S. engineer in charge of the public works; Hannah Deidrick an old settler of Kaukauna, died at this time: the new and fine drawbridge was going up. In the summer and fall of 1875, Day & Call, contractors, had at work on the improvements at Kaukauna., from 150 to 400 men. The dam was built by Knapp & Gillan and was 14 feet wide and 580 feet long. John Stovekin was making in September three tons of straw paper per day. At his saw mill he was turning out large quantities of lumber for the dams at Little Chute and Cedars; he made large quantities of oak felloes. John P. Deitrich rebuilt the Mr. Stovekin's new flouring mill at Kaukauna was almost ready in November, 1878. John Stovekin's flour mill was burned in 1871 and the next year the Frambach and Stovekin paper mill was started. The Bank of Kaukauna was founded

In July, 1878, Ward Patterson was instantly killed by the bursting of a whirling stone in Frambach & Stovekin's paper mill.

Information from Family search 1880 census shows he was 37 born in 1843, Occupation: Reprint pulp , Married Father was born in Prussia and Mother born in NY Information is located in Kaukauna library film 1255440 Fil Number T9-1440 Page number 271A 1880 Census of John Stoveken Sr. shows Mother birthplace of NY and Fathers Birthplace of Prussia

Beginning of Marinette County Industry

A history of industry in Marinette County is essentially, a history of lumbering. Almost every part of the county furnished the raw materials for this truly tremendous industry. While most of the processing of the timber occurred in Marinette, several important sawmills were located in other parts of the county. Most of the communities of the county developed around the lumbering industry, and the railroads which came primarily to serve it.

The first sawmill on the Menominee River was built in 1831 by William Farnsworth and Charles Brush. Noting the decline of the fur trade, Farnsworth foresaw the enormous potential for lumber from the vast pine forests of the area. He and Brush were granted permission by the Menominee Indians, which was approved by the War Department, to construct a sawmill and grist mill on the unsurveyed Indian lands; in return, they were to saw lumber and grind grain for the Menominee tribe and the U.S. government "at reasonable expense." The dam and mill were built at what is now the junction of Raymond Street and Riverside Avenue. The water-powered sawmill cut six to eight thousand feet of timber daily. The first lumber cut was used to build the first frame house in Marinette, the home of Queen Marinette. Samuel Farnsworth later obtained the mill at sheriff's sale for 18 barrels of whitefish. In 1844, Dr. J.C. Hall and H.R. Jerome purchased the mill, but abandoned it the following year when they built a larger one on the Michigan side of the river.

In 1856, the first steam sawmill on the river was built in Menekaunee by the New York Lumber Company. Five years later, Chicago businessman Jesse Spaulding, A.C. Brown, and Philetus Sawyer took over the mill, which burned in 1869 and again in 1871; but like the phoenix, the mill arose from its ashes and re-opened in 1872 as the Menominee River Lumber Company. In 1895, the company lost its third mill by fire, but again rebuilt and operated for a few more years.

Fire was an extreme hazard to these early mills; almost all burned at one time or another, though most were rebuilt. In 1895, the heyday of the lumber industry on the Menominee, there were 22 sawmills on the river, 9 on the Marinette side.

Another group of investors fro Chicago and Milwaukee, Nelson and Harrison Ludington, and Daniel Wells Jr., opened the N. Ludington company in 1856, near Mission Point, upriver from Menekaunee. Isaac Stephenson gained control of this mill in 1868. After his death, in 1919, the mill and lumberyard were sold to the H.C. Below Company; in 1921 the mill burned and was not rebuilt. When the N. Ludington Company dissolved, in 1944, it had been in existence for 76 years.

In 1866, the William McCarney mill was established. It burned in 1871, and was rebuilt the following year. This was to become known as Marinette Sawmill Company's No. 1 Mill, and was eventually sold to Edward Scofield. About 1897, the mill was torn down and the machinery sold. In 1888, the Marinette Sawmill Company's No. 2 Mill was built a short distance below the present site of the M&M Box Company. This second mill later became Sawyer Goodman Company's No. 2 Mill. About 1905, Charles Goodman built a plaining mill, and began to ship lumber direct to the trade by rail. The Sawyer Goodman Company became the largest shipper of lumber on the river. Their first mill, built in Menekaunee in 1880, was the last mill operating on the Menominee River in Marinette, when it closed at noon on July 31, 1931, ending a century of sawmill operations on the Menominee.

Several mills were build on islands of the Menominee River. In 1866, the Hamilton and Merryman Company build a mill on Merryman's Island, at the foot of Newberry Avenue. A shingle and planing mill were added, later. These mills burned in the late 1890s, and were never rebuilt. Thereafter, their logs were sawed at the R.C. Merryman mill, which had been opened in 1878, and continued in operation until 1906, when it was dismantled and the machinery shipped to the west coast.

Daniel Wells Jr., Andrew Stephenson, and Louis Gram built a sawmill in 1867 on an island at the foot of Stanton Street. three years later, Stephenson and Gram sold their interests to Carney and Witbeck, and the H. Witbeck Company was formed. This mill operated until 1904, when it was sold to Carney's sons, who dismantled it and moved the machinery to Canada. The mill site was purchased two years later by the City of Marinette.

The "Red Mill," built by Isaac Stephenson about 1889 on Stephenson Island, downriver from the present Interstate Bridge, was used only to saw Stephenson's logs, and had no rail connections. Like the Menominee, the Peshtigo River traversed rich timberlands, and the Peshtigo Lumber Company's large saw and planing mill was a mainstay of the city for many years. Under the ownership of William Ogden, the company "created" Peshtigo Harbor as a company town, extending its lumbering operations to the very mouth of the river, and beyond by barge to the cities to the south, particularly to Ogden's lumberyards in Chicago. Badger Paper Mills occupies the old Peshtigo Lumber Co. site today.

In Coleman, the Little River Mill (later sold to E.E. Bolles & Company) and the Brault Mill contributed greatly to the early development of the settlement. Wausaukee was a lumbering town from its beginnings until the end of the 19th century, when the pine was exhausted and farming and stock raising began to take over. Dunbar's chief industry in its early days was the Girard Lumber Company. One of Niagara's earliest settlers, John Stoveken Sr., put in a small pulp mill in 1889. This was purchased and enlarged by the Badger Paper Company of Kaukauna in 1890, and in 1899 rebuilt and again enlarged by Kimberly-Clark to become one of the largest and highest speed mills in the U.S. at that time. The Niagara Paper Company today maintains a large labor force, and is a major strength in the economy of the community. With the development of the sawmills, associated industry appeared on the Menominee River. In 1866, the Menominee River Boom Company (initially called the Menominee River Manufacturing Company, though no products were manufactured) was formed to sort and divide logs for the various sawmills. A dam was built at the head of the rapids between Marinette and Menominee, and another several miles downriver. Eventually 44 dams wee built by the Boom Company on the Menominee and its tributaries, to aid in bringing the logs down the river; piers and driving booms were erected to aid the sorting of the logs. The directors and officers of this company were, not surprisingly, giants of the lumber industry: Nels and Harrington Ludington; Isaac, S.M. and Andrew Stephenson; Charles Ellis; Fred Carney; A.C. Merryman; Jesse Spaulding; A.A. Carpenter; and W.O. Goodman. By the time of the last log drive of the Menominee River Boom Company in the summer of 1917, 33 of its dams were still in use.


(Marinette County Centennial, 1879-1979, p. 10)

2/15/2004 Per Jerry VanDenBerg: Charles Augustus Frambach and Maria Ader were John's natural Father and Mother. He acquired the Stoveken name when He was adopted after his father died in Racine John would have been 11 years old when his father died. His Brother Henry was older and able to make his own way. I will need to find some evidence of the adoption records (Perhaps in Racine) to show this. The history books show John and Henry as half brothers.

Per Obituary of H A Frambach (Henry) John was adopted after his fathers death in Racine by a neighbor and took the surname Stoveken (Need to determine if the 1850 census in Racine shows John as Frambach or Stovekin/Stoveken)

The mill property now occupied by The Union Bag and Paper Company was originally built in 1882 by Colonel H. A. Frambach and his half-brother, John Stovekin, and was burned twice, the last time in 1888, and it has passed through the hands of the Frambach Paper Company, the Kaukauna Paper Company, the Van Nortwick Paper Company, and the Western Paper Bag Company, which latter concern acquired it in 1892. In 1899 this firm sold out to The Union Bag and Paper Company, and during the following year the latter company moved from Batavia, Illinois, where.it had been formerly located, to Kaukuana, and added another story to the structure, also building two warehouses, the factory now covering a floor space of 138,000 square feet in the main buildings, besides owning a large boiler house, barn and smaller buildings. The water power used amounts to 1660 horse-power, and.they have auxiliary steam engines of 400 horse-power. The product of the company is shipped west of Ohio and the Great Lakes. One hundred and forty people are employed in manufacturing seven tons of ground wood pulp and the output of the factory, which manufactures twenty-five tons of paper daily and has a capacity of 4,000,000 bags per diem. All grades and sizes of paper bags are made.


I found a Framback (Index 54B) and a Frambeck (Index 73A) in the Racine WI 1850 census index,

Racine County, WISCONSIN: 1850 Census Index

The handwritten census is also available in book form from S-K Publications
http://www.skpub.com/genie/

Names of Householders Milwaukee heads of Families, Business and Professional
Men, Mechanics, Laborers, & Residents in Milwaukee
1848-1849 1Stoveken Barnard, shoemaker Market (st)

Possible his Adopted father - More likely is Anton and Francis Stoveken based on other data found

http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1848-49dir.html

John married Gertrude Diedrich, daughter of Peter Diedrich and Johanna Young, about 1863 in Kaukauna, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. (Gertrude Diedrich was born on Jul 2, 1843 in Kaukauna, Brown, Wisconsin, USA 1 2 and died on Dec 8, 1881 in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 3.)


When John signed the affidavit for Henry Frambach (Framby) his brother in 1904. John Sr. listed his address as 373 23rd street, Milwaukee age 61, but the notary public and affidavit signed was from Mesa county Colorado where Joseph his Son probably lived as Joseph is listed in the cemetery in Mesa County Colorado - Not sure if John was just visiting Joseph there or was living there part time. The address of 373 23 rd puts the address in the middle of Miller Park Baseball complex. To the north are the mansions of Pabst and other large homes - Was this a valid address? Were there homes in this area before the ball park

Katherine PER married John FRAMBACH abt 1865, Caseville,Grant Co., Wisc. Any information would be appreciated. I have been researching FRAMBACH family and this is a new name to me. Please contact me. John F. FRAMBACH (Tom D. Note - There is no known stories about any Marriage of John before Gertrude Diedrich. But I will leave this here as a possibility)


Anton and Francis Stoveken adopted John - Francis later moved to Kaukauna as her Natural Daughter Lillian Stoveken married Henry Frambach's Brother in Law. Francis Lived with the Claspill family later in life and was listed as a mother in Law. (Henry probably considered her a Mother as his natural mother died very young and John stayed with Anton and Francis. It is likely that Henry also felt that this was home to him) see Claspill family and Henry Frambach.


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The patent numbers awarded to John Stoveken for Gold recovery are as follows:

640,715
729,805
729,806
729,807
730,195

You can download the entire set of images of the patents at the USPO website. Just enter the patent number and save each page of the patent. The patents are quite extensive and are a total of about 30 pages if I recall. ^{2 5}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Adoption: Adopted by Anton Stoveken and Francis, 1854. ²

• Residence, 1847, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Residence, 1854, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Occupation: Milwaukee Flour Mill builder, 1855, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Residence, 1855, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Residence, 1865, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Occupation: Built and owned flour mill, 1855, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Publication: The Kaukauna Times, 02 Sep 1881, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ⁶
THE FIERY DEMON
Visits Kaukauna in all Its Terrible Fury.
The Eagle Paper and Flouring Mills in Ruins.
A Narrow Escape from death by Six Persons
(From Friday Morning's Extra)

Kaukauna, Aug 26, 7 30 A. M. - at about (6:30 o'clock on Thursday afternoon as our people had many of them, just finished their supper, a startling cry of "fire" was heard. At about the same time on the day previous, the same cry was given and it turned out, everybody, but fortunately the first day's fire was quickly extinguished The alarm of Thursday was however a real one and people looked from their windows and doors to see an immense sheet of flame and heavy black smoke shooting from the east end of the large stone building known as the

EAGLE PAPER AND FLOURING MILLS

It looked on the very start as if nothing could save the building, although willing hands were there to render what aid they could in removing stock, light machinery etc. As the flames in increased in fury, it was thought best to attempt to save buildings adjourning and confine the fire to the one building. A force pump and hose from Reuter Bros. was brought into question and with a pail brigade the fire was kept from the new building of the Chicago Novelty Co. Had this caught, every factory and mill north would surely have burnt. Pretty soon the little wind that was died down and an attempt made to save the main part of the Eagle Mills and all hands went at that task. The fire had not yet broken through into the main building, or grist mill and a flame was seen starting about the wooden building or cupola on the roof, the following party consisting of A. W. Priest, John and Thos. Phillips, David Kerwan, Doc. Tanner, Jo. Schraw, and others repaired to the roof through the mill stairway, the intention of extinguishing the same. They were working well and seemingly prospects for saving the mill, when of a sudden the flames broke in the main building and cut off the former and only made of exit for the men on the roof. Then the crowd below were horror-stricken at the seeming fate awaiting their comrades and shouted in vain endeavors to advise the some means of action and as the flames grew larger, leaping from the windows in front and below the men, with the fiery furnace in the rear and sides, it looked as they must surely perish. But the crowd of men below were not those to silently look on and let fellow beings die without a desperate effort to rescue them, and ladders were procured which with several unsuccessful attempts were finally connected so the top of the building was reached. But the worst was not over, and by this time the flames increased ten-fold, and as they cracked and leaped far into the air, it seemed as if they were smacking their lips in their eagerness to secure the human prey, that they were almost sure of devouring. David Kerwan could not wait until the ladders were in position, and so let himself down on a rope to the first story window, and dropped the balance, a distance of 30 or 35 feet. He escaped with a few bruises and sprains. The ladders were finally adjusted one being held by Hugh McClinchy with a pike-pole, with the flames all around him to that extent that, a constant stream of water was thrown on to prevent him burning. One by one the men slid down and out of the jaws of death. It was an awful sight to see seven men on one corner of the roof of a high building and when the last man was safe on ground, a mighty shout arose from the multitude on ground. The last two who left the roof, were A. W. Priest and John Phillips, and these two had held the ladder from the top to connect with ladders below. They found a rope and tying one end to the ladder and the other to a abutment on the roof, and came down all right.

THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRE

The origins of the fire, as Mr. Frambaugh informs the Times was probably through spontaneous combustion of rags in the bleach-room, which communicated with the rag-room, at once enveloping the entire rear portion of the mill. The pump in the mill had just broken down, unfortunately. Had it been in running order, the floors could have been flooded and the mill saved. A thorough tour of the mill by Mr. Frambaugh a short time before the fire, and everything was all right.

LOSS AND INSURANCE

Almost the first question as regards a destructive fire is insurance. In this case there was very small insurance. The loss of Mr. Frambaugh is $10.000, the actual cash value of stock on hand. He had purchased largely of rags, chemicals, etc., and had material enough in the mill to run three months, and of course figuring this and the loss of time Mr. Frambaugh's actual loss is much greater than the sum mentioned, and is without one dollar's insurance. The loss on building, machinery, will not fall short of $80,000 on which there is an insurance of $47,000. Words fail to convey the genuine sympathy that is felt for the proprietors, as the mill had been for some time under a cloud and had begun netting handsome returns. The loss in another direction by throwing fifty hands out of employment, just at the approach of winter, is also great, and will be severely felt by all of Kaukauna.

WILL REBUILD

Mr. H. A. Frambaugh informs a Times reporter that he will commence at once to build a paper mill at some place in Kaukauna yet to be decided upon. There is an enterprise for you.

CINDERS

During the hottest period of the fire a mill-stone exploded with a loud report, sending a shower of sparks upward. Al Fuller swung out of a 2nd story window and was burned around the face not very badly. Geo. Kelso while carrying out bundles of paper which were a load for three men was overcome and had to be laid off. Doc Tanner slid down the ladder as though it was greased. But suppose he had caught on the end of the pike. John Phillips was the last man to leave the roof, and kept remarkably cool under the circumstances. A steamer from Appleton was telegraphed but failed to arrive. The mill of O. A. Byrnes & Co. was in imminent danger on one or two occasions but did not take fire. Thos. Reese was the first to give the alarm of fire. Considerable manufactured stock was got out of the mill, but in damaged condition. The hand engine of Reuter Bros. done good service throughout, and the buildings north of the fire owe their existence to it.

Hugh McClinchy wins the pot for true grit, though. Not many men could stand surrounded by the flames as he did, and hold a fifteen foot ladder on his arm, while the men from above climbed down and over him. This act would put to shame some of the acts of professional city firemen which are bragged of.

The ruins this morning present a fearful appearance, the great black walls are cracked beyond hopes of repairing, while the immense amount of machinery lays ruined amongst a dense mass of chaos. John Stovekin was out of town at the time of the fire, having just started on a business trip to Minnesota. The blow falls heavily on Mr. Stovekin, and it is not the first like misfortune. The question naturally arises will Kaukauna take steps toward preventing a repetition of Thursday's scene. A fire-engine and well organized company, we think would have saved the grist mill.

• Residence: (1st resident), 1889, Niagara, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Occupation: Badger Paper Mill builder, 1889, Niagara, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Publication: US Patent # 640,715, 02 Jul 1900, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ⁷
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN STOVEKEN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
VERTICAL AUTOMATIC DRYING AND ROASTING FURNACE
SPECIFICATION forming, part of Letters Patent No. 040,715, dated January 2, 1000.
Application Filed June 3,1899. Serial No. 710,100. No model

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STOVEKEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vertical Automatic Drying and Roasting Furnaces; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in automatic roasting or oxidizing furnaces of the upright stack or vertical type adapted for roasting or drying ores.

My object is to provide a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, economical in cost, and continuous in operation and which shall possess the highest degree of efficiency in the performance of its functions.

To these ends the invention consists of the features, arrangements, and combinations hereinafter described and claimed, all of which will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated au embodiment thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved furnace, taken on the line X X, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a similar section taken on the line X Y, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line AB, Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are horizontal sections taken on the lines C D and E F, respectively, Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 6 is a top or plan view of the furnace.

Similar reference characters indicating corresponding parts in these views, let the numeral 5 designate the upright structure of the furnace, whose outer wall 5a is preferably composed of common brick, having an inner wall or lining 5c of fire-brick. The chamber 6 inclosed by the upright walls communicates at the bottom or lower extremity with a fire-box 7, which supplies heat for roasting or drying purposes. As shown in the drawings, the upright portion of the furnace is rectangular in cross-section and double-that is to say, arranged to support two upright columns of ore, having two feed openings at the top and two discharge-openings at the bottom. It must be understood, however, that I do not limit the invention to the double structure, as the single form is equally within the scope of the invention.

The bottom of the vertical oxidizing chamber where the ore is discharged is trough-shaped, as shown at 27, the bottom of each trough being provided with an outlet-opening, into which the ore is discharged by an upright cast-iron pipe 8, suitably supported above the opening by a channel-beam 4. (See Fig. 2.) Each discharge-opening in the bottom of the furnace communicates with a chamber 9, in which is located a table or platform 10, over which passes an endless drag-chain 12, supported by wheels 13, which are propelled by any suitable power. The chain 12 travels in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 2 and carries the roasted ore into a trough 14, from which it may be removed in any suitable manner.

The upper extremity of each discharge-pipe 8 is funnel-shaped and located directly below a series of inclined shelves 15, extending crosswise of the furnace and supported by the vertical walls thereof, a sufficient space being to left on both aides of the shelves to allow the heat to pass upward in the vertical chamber from the bottom to the top. These shelves 15 are arranged in two rows and located on opposite sides of a central vertical line passing through a discharge-pipe 8, the individual shelves on opposite sides of this line being staggered or alternately arranged with reference to each other, whereby the ore in passing downward will slide from a shelf one side to the next lower shelf on the opposite side, these two shelves occupying a position preferably at right angles or approximately at right angles to each other. By this arrangement the ore which was underneath or in contact with the shelf on one side is uppermost or exposed to the heat when it reaches the opposite shelf, whereby the ore is evenly roasted or oxidized. These shelves 15 extend from the top of the discharge-pipes 16, forming muffles in the upper portion of the roasting chamber. The lower shelves are preferably composed of fire-clay and the upper ones of cast-iron, though any suitable or desirable material may be employed for this purpose. The muffle roast-pipes 16 are preferably provided with interior inclined ledges 16a, and they may be provided with openings located at suitable intervals from which lead upwardly-projecting tubes 16c, which permit the escape of the vapor from the ore in the muffles. These outlet orifices and tubes may be used or not, as desired. As shown in the drawings, the muffle-pipes are constructed of sections or lengths of different diameters, these sections increasing in size from the top downward, whereby the passage of ore there through is facilitated. They are supported by suitable horizontal beams or bars 17, whose extremities are supported by the vertical walls of the roasting-chamber.

Into the top of each muffle-pipe 16 projects inlet-pipe 18, whose upper extremity communicates with a hopper 19, projecting above the top of the furnace. One of these hoppers is located on each side of the central stack 20, through which the products of combustion escape from the roasting-chamber. The portion 21 of the vertical wall (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) is constructed separately from the body of the wall, whereby the bricks may be readily removed to form an opening giving access to the furnace-chamber when for any reason such access may be necessary or desirable. On opposite sides of the central ore-supporting shelves 15 the walls of the furnace are provided at suitable intervals with short upwardly-projecting ledges 22, whose function is the deflection of the heat inwardly toward the central ore-supporting shelves 15, whereby the roasting or oxidizing efficiency of the structure is enhanced.

As shown in the drawings, the top of the go furnace is closed except where the smokestack and the ore-inlet pipes are located.

In using the furnace a fire sufficient to produce a heat of the desired intensity is made in the fire-box 7, whereby the heat passes therefrom upward through the vertical oxidizing-chamber 6, around the ore-supporting shelves 15 to the muffles 16. The ore fed into the top of the furnace through the hoppers 19 passes thence through the inlet-pipes 18 into the muffle roasting-pipes 16, and thence downward through the ore-shelves 15 and the discharge-pipes 18 to the bottom of the furnace, and thence through the openings therein to the platform 10, which forms a stop for the ore, which then begins to accumulate and pile upward in the furnace until there is a central vertical column of ore extending upward from the bottom to the top of the roasting-chamber, filling a pipe 8, covering the shelves 15, and filling a muffle-pipe 16. If the furnace is of double construction, as shown in the drawings, there are two of these columns of ore formed in the furnace, one being substantially a duplicate of the other. Hence in describing the use and operation of the furnace only a single column will be referred to.

It is evident that the pipes 8 and 16 may be made of fire-clay instead of iron. In fact, with some classes of ore iron could not be used. Hence it will be understood that I do not limit is myself to any special material in the construction of any part of the furnace.

Access may be gained to the ore-supporting shelves from the outside of the furnace through horizontal openings 25, formed in the vertical walls and normally closed by remov¬able cast-iron plugs 26. These openings may be utilized to prevent the ore from clogging the furnace and also to remove samples of the ore for the purpose of learning its condition to during the roasting operation.

The operation of the furnace is as follows: After the roasting - chamber has been once charged with ore the drag-chain at the bottom is put in motion and the bottom of the ore column removed more or less slowly, according to the nature of the ore. The roasting of some ores requires much more time than others. Hence the motion of the drag-chain will depend upon the character of the ore treated. The longer the time required for the roasting of the ore the slower will be the travel of the chain; but in any event the movement of the drag-chain is continuous, and the column of ore is continually moving downward to take the plane of the ore carried away by the chain, the ore being fed in at the top to maintain the height of the column or keep the furnace con¬tinually and evenly charged to the limit of its capacity. The ore is continually moving too downward at a speed to allow it to be properly roasted while passing from the top to the bot¬tom of the furnace. The bottom of the ore column belonging to the first charge of ore will not be sufficiently roasted, since it has fallen directly from the top to the bottom of the furnace and has not been sufficiently exposed to the oxidizing or roasting atmosphere. Hence the first ore removed by the drag-chain will need to be returned and passed again through the furnace; but after this the ore taken from the bottom of the column is properly roasted and the operation is continued without interruption.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-

1. The combination with a vertical ore-roasting chamber having an ore-inlet at the top and a discharge-opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings, and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, whereby the heat is allowed to pass upward and the ore, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace walls, and located in the lower part of the furnace, and muffles supported in the upper part of the furnace, the wall of the chamber being provided with openings opposite the ore-supporting means to permit access to the column of ore,. and detachable plugs normally closing said openings.

2. The combination with a vertical ore-roasting chamber having an ore-inlet at the top and a discharge-opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace-walls and located in the lower part of the furnace, muffles supported in the upper part of the furnace, and inclined, deflecting ledges attached to the inner walls of the furnace and adapted to direct the heat toward the central column of ore.

3. The combination with a vertical ore-roasting chamber having an ore-inlet at the top and discharge-opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, whereby the heat is allowed to pass upward around the ore, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace-walls and located in the lower part of the furnace and a muffle-pipe located in the upper part of the furnace-chamber and provided with orifices and upwardly-projecting tubes lending therefrom.

4. The combination with a vertical ore-roasting chamber having an ore-inlet at the top and a discharge-opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace-walls and located in the lower part of the furnace, and a muffle-pipe located in the upper part of the furnace- chamber and having inclined, staggered, inwardly-projecting ledges said muffle being also provided with orifices and upwardly-projecting tubes leading therefrom.

5. The combination, with a vertical ore ¬roasting chamber, having an ore inlet at the top and a discharge opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, whereby the heat is allowed to pass upward around the ore, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace-walls and located in the lower part of the furnace, and muffles supported in the upper part of the furnace.

6. In a vertical roasting-furnace, the combination with a vertical oxidizing-chamber having an inlet-opening at its top and a discharge-opening at its bottom, of means for supporting a central, vertical column of ore in said chamber between said openings, said means comprising a vertical discharge-pipe located in the bottom of the chamber, inclined shelves located above said pipe and a vertical muffle-tube located above the shelves, the ore-column-supporting means being so located as to leave room for the hot air to pass upward from the bottom to the top of the furnace.

7. The combination with a vertical ore- roasting chamber having an inlet-opening at the top and a discharge-opening at the bottom, of means for maintaining a vertical column of ore between these two openings and in a central position in the roasting-chamber, whereby the heat is allowed to pass up-ward around the ore, said means comprising inclined shelves supported by the furnace-walls and located in the lower part of the furnace, and muffles supported in the upper part of the furnace, a chamber located be low the discharge-opening of the furnace, a platform or table located in said chamber and forming a support for the ore column, and an endless drag-chain passing over said table or platform for removing the ore at the base, and causing a continuous downward movement of the ore column.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

/ s/ JOHN STOVEKEN

Witnesses:

/s/ A. J. O'Brien
/s/ Nellie G Daniels

• Residence: 373 23rd Street, 21 Sep 1904, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Residence: State Street, 1918, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ²

• Certification: Death Certificate 26-007986, Local No. 2170, 26 Feb 1926, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. ³

• Cemetery: Cavalry Cemetery, 27 Feb 1926, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. ^{2 3}

John married Gertrude Diedrich, daughter of Peter Diedrich and Anna Maria Jung, on 29 Oct 1867 in Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. (Gertrude Diedrich was born on 02 Jul 1843 in Kankanlin, Brown, (Kaukauna, Outagamie), Wisconsin, USA,^{8 9} died on 08 Dec 1881 in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ^{10 11} and was buried on 10 Dec 1881 in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ¹².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Wedding Ceremony: St John Nepomucene, 29 Oct 1867, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ¹

• Publication: (Handwritten date on clipping), 05 May 1882, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ¹³
- Miss Lizzie Diedrich, has returned from Oconto, and taken charge of the children of John Stoveken

• Publication: concerning the church altar used for their wedding, 12 Mar 1925, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁴
AN HISTORIC ALTAR
Isabelle Fox

To a lover of antiquities, the story of a little white altar and its wanderings, may be an interesting one.

When the Fox River Valley was a vast wilderness, the now thriving village of Little Chute was a mere speck on the horizon of civilization, that speck, a wigwam fifteen feet long and six feet high, built by an Indian woman for the Rev. Theodore J. Vanden Brock, a priest of the Order of St. Dominick, who left Holland in the early thirties to do missionary work among the Catholic population and the Indians scattered over the country.

In 1834 he was sent into the wilds of Wisconsin, by the Bishop of Detroit, settling in Little Chute, and thus the Cross was planted in the beautiful Fox River Valley. The wigwam served as church and residence for six months, during which time Father Vanden Brock, wilth the aid of Indians, built a church the timber being secured from the forest along the river bank. The roof was of bark, a split log was used as an altar, the sacred vessels were old treasures, unearthed at Rapids des Peres, having been buried there when the missionary fathers of St. Francis Xavier church, built in 1676 by Charles Alhanel, were massacred and the church burned by Indians.

During 1838 there came to Little Chute Antoine Mosseau and his son-in-law, Ephraim St. Louis and family, natives of Canasda, Marielle, Province of Quebec. Mr. Mosseau, a carriage maker and carpenter by trade, did not like the idea of a split log being used as an altar, and conceived the idea of making for Rev. Vanden Broek and altar and tabernacle, which he fashioned from the beautiful white pine from the forest surrounding the church. With tools brought front his home it was not a difficult matter. The altar and tabernacle, painted white, with gold trimmings and cross, was the pride of Father Vanden Brock's heart during the years he served as priest in Little Chute.

After the death of Rev. Vanden Broek in 1851, a new church was built and the altar was presented to Mrs. St. Louis, daughter of Mr. Mosseau and mother of Rev. Manus St. Louis, who was stationed at Phlox, Wis., where he built a small church, carrying the lumber on his back from a nearby forest for its erection. His parents removed to Phlox from Little Chute taking the altar and tabernacle with them and where it again did service in a mission church. Later when Rev. St. Louis was removed to Green Bay, he took the altar with him, leaving the tabernacle in Phlox, where it is held sacred by the people of the parish. On being transferred from Green Bay to Iron Mountain, Mich., he gave the altar to his sister, Mrs. Alex Grignon, when it was shipped to her at her home near the Combined Locks on the steamer Evelyn. At Mrs. Grignon's death it passed into the hands of her daughter, Mrs. Michael Maher.

After the destruction fire of Holy Cross church in 1916, Mrs. Maher gave the altar to Msgr. P. J. Lochman, pastor, for use in the chapel of the school house during the erection of the present handsome structure, and on its completion the Altar was placed in the chapel of the new church--on the right of the' main altar--a sacred reminder of the hardships endured by the missionaries in the dim and distant past.

Kneeling before this quaint little altar we see in imagination the backwoods church, the priest offer-

• Photograph: (church altar), 30 Apr 2006, Stiles, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁵
Mossau / Manseau, who owned the land in Kaukauna before Peter Diedrich was also, the craftsman who carved the first altar for Father Vandenbroek's church in Little Chute in 1837/1838.

This would have been the Altar at St. John's that Peter Diedrich and Joanna Jung were married. It is also most likely the Altar that John Stoveken Sr. and Gertrude Diedrich were married at in Kaukauna / Little Chute. Probably Scherer / Diedrich as well.

This altar seemed to have been lost after about 1930 after several well documented moves. It appears that a descendant of Manseau who I communicate with may have found the altar in a town called Stiles, WI based on a tip from an individual in Kaukauna who had a recollection of a side altar at Holy Cross being shipped to Stiles. Holy Cross was the last known positive location of the Altar.

It is very probable that the Altar was built on Manseau's property in Kaukauna that was later owned by Peter Diedrich and by John Stoveken.

Another curiosity. John Stoveken Jr and Margaret St. Mitchell were married in Phlox at the time the altar was located in Phlox by Father St. Louis who is the Grandson of Manseau. The world (at least Kaukauna and Northeastern WI) was indeed small in the mid 1800's.

[My only caveat is that the Altar has not been absolutely confirmed as being authentic (But it sure seems to match the appearance)]

  Marriage Notes:

I found a previous reference in one of John Stoveken's accounting books that the land being broken into lots in Kaukauna was in the name of the Estate of Gertrude Stoveken. (There must have been a legal reason for this). I have suspicion that John claimed bankruptcy in 1881 when the mill burned down without insurance. This may have been a way to keep the land assets protected from bankruptcy court. I have not checked the deeds yet, but believe that Peter Diedrich's property was already subdivided before 1870 between Gertrude and Joseph Diedrich. ¹⁶

John next married Elizabeth Katherine Kohanek on 24 Jan 1883 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.¹ (Elizabeth Katherine Kohanek was born in Nov 1849 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA,¹⁷ died on 10 Jan 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA ¹⁷ and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA ¹⁷.) The cause of her death was automobile accident.³

  Marriage Notes:

The births of his 2 daughters from his second marriage to Elizabeth (or Katherine) took place in 1884 and 1887. Was he in Outagamie cty or was He north somewhere (The answer to this question is that he retained a residence in Kaukauna to at least until 1888 when John started the Quinnesec falls Pulp Mill Quinnesec, MI, Niagara, WI is across the river which John Founded) ( His oldest child (John Jr.) would have been under 17 at the time of his second marriage. Gertrude would have been 4 when her mother died and 6 when John Sr. married his second wife.

Did confirm that John Sr was living in Milwaukee aft 1904 to at least 1917 - 18 (He was also residing in Cripple Creek, Colorado and Colorado Springs, CO Later he moved to Grand Junction, CO where he owned several hundred acres in the Orchard growing area of the Mesa. His Son Joseph was there and died and is buried there. Rosella Stoveken Noskey said she took a train in summer to stay with John Stoveken Sr. (Her Grandfather) while she was in High School. This would place her about 16 yrs old in 1918 about High school age. She insisted that he lived on State St. in Milwaukee. This seems to conflict with the address given on the affidavit about his brother Henry's name of Framby and Frambach in 1904. It is likely John Sr. moved to a new address before Rosella spent time with him. (The early address is now on the property of Miller Park (The baseball stadium in Milwaukee) The address on State Street would place the address near downtown Milwaukee and near where he probably lived in Milwaukee early in life. It was reported that Gertrude Stoveken the youngest daughter of John Stoveken and Gertrude Diedrich was deaf and lived in Milwaukee above a drug store.

Jean Noskey said that the entire family group of John Stoveken, Sr. and his second marriage to Elizabeth died in LA California area.

I contacted the cemetery in Los Angeles - Confirmed He is buried there along side Elizabeth - They did not have date of death of his wife.

I find it interesting that Elisabeth's father was a shoemaker. When John was living in Milwaukee in the early 1850's there was a Bernard Stoveken who was a shoemaker and was John's adopted father. This could explain that John may have known Elisabeth Kohanek as a young adult while living in Milwaukee because of the occupation connection. ¹⁷