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Henninger Family History

(Extended Family)

Dec 2008

M ichael, Mary, George and Barbara Henninger, children of Michael and Katherina Henninger, emigrated to the United States from Weisweil, Baden.note1 Two of the children as well as their mother lived in Missouri before moving to Kansas. A third took a more circuitous route to the same location, and the fourth is known to have gone directly to Ohio at a later date.

Mary Henninger

Henninger Family Locations
Henninger Family Locations
1. Weisweil, Baden
2. St. Louis, Missouri
3. Atchison, Kansas
4. Bijou Basin, Colorado
5. Columbus, Ohio Maria Salomea (Mary) Henninger was born 07 Oct 1831 in Weisweil, Baden. She emigrated to the United States to join a young man from her hometown. She married Jacob Friedrich (Fred) Stephan 25 Feb 1855 in St. Louis, Missouri, where he had been working as a steamship builder. They had their first two children here before moving to Atchison, Kansas, about 1859. Fred died 1909. Mary died 10 Oct 1910 and was buried in Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Atchison. They had the following children:

  1. George (c.1856).
  2. Caroline (Carrie) (1858) who married Fred Fiss.
  3. Marie (Mary) (1861-1951) who married Albert Fiss, Fred's brother, about 1883.
  4. Friedrich (Fred) (1863) who married Matilda Schroeder 1891 in Ellinwood, Barton County, Kansas.
  5. Katharina (Kate) (1867) who married F.C. Lechler.
  6. Paul Gerhardt (1869-1904).
  7. Johann Michael (Michael) (1871).

Carrie, Mary, and Fred were the first baptisms listed in the Atchison Trinity Lutheran Church record books, all taking place on 31 Mar 1867.

Michael Henninger

Johann Michael (Michael) Henninger was born 23 Oct 1835 in Weisweil. He moved to the United States before 1857, probably along with his older sister, Mary, to accompany her to St. Louis. After this, Michael's whereabouts are unknown until May 1869, when he married Elise Kleinwort in Cheyenne, Wyoming. By July 1870, he was working as a grocer in Bijou Basin, Douglas County, Colorado.note2 The couple now had an infant daughter which was yet to be named. In January 1871, they had her baptized in Atchison, where they joined Michael's family and apparently remained. However, they may have gone to Missouri around 1876, since their youngest child was shown on the following census to have been born in that state. He was baptized six months later in Atchison, which is the last known record to include Michael, therefore it is assumed he died between 1876-78. Michael and Elise had the following children:note3

  1. Mary Catherine "Mayme" (1870).
  2. Georg Wilhelm (1871).
  3. Wilhelm Woldemar (1873).
  4. Johann Michael (Michael) (1874).
  5. Friedrich Georg (Fred) (1876).

George Henninger

Johann Georg (George) Henninger was the youngest child, born 23 Feb 1849 in Weisweil. He and his mother emigrated between 1857-59 to live with Mary's new family in St. Louis before continuing on with them to Kansas. George married Wilhelmine G. (Minnie) Jahn (later spelled Yahn) in Atchison on 18 Aug 1872. In 1878, he was running an establishment called the Fifth Street Market Club House. He then opened a saloon called St. George in 1882. Several newspaper articles show that he and other saloonkeepers were being harassed by local Prohibitionists. George, in particular, was accused of violating the prohibitory liquor law in 1885, which undoubtedly led to him putting his property up for sale the following year. He then left Atchison for San Diego, California, where he was involved in the citrus industry. He remained here until 1909 when he relocated to Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. In Bisbee, George operated a cigar factory at least until 1917 when he moved a final time to the town of Douglas in the same county. Minnie died in July 1928 and was buried in the Calvary Cemetery (aka City of Douglas Cemetery). George died 19 Jun 1935 in the home of his daughter, Georgina, and was buried next to his wife. George and Minnie had the following children:

  1. Elise Salamea (1875-1947) who married Bailey A. Taylor and died in Los Angeles.
  2. Karoline Emilie Wilhelmine (1877-1879).
  3. Wilhelmine Marie "Minnie" (1879-1917) who married John Porter Cull 1904. John was a state senator and successful businessman in Douglas, Arizona.
  4. Matilda Katharine (1881-1974) who married Orin Clyde Johnson 1922 in Tucson, Arizona, and died in Phoenix.
  5. Katharine Elisabeth (1884-1977) who married John Alfred Hopkins c.1903 and moved to Oakland, California.
  6. Christina Dorothea (1885-1969) who married John Roddan and moved to Los Angeles, California.
  7. Auguste Wilhelmina Barbara "Barbary" (1887) who married William F. Seidel and lived in Phoenix in 1930.
  8. Georgina Ellen (1890-1986) who married the same John P. Cull c.1920 after the death of her sister.
  9. George (1893) who died after 1958.

Barbara Henninger

Maria Barbara Henninger was the last known sibling to emigrate. Barbara was born 08 Jul 1843 in Weisweil and apparently remained there when the rest of the family left for America. According to records from Baden, Barbara married Mathias Stöcklin (also spelled Stoecklin) before 1862. Barbara, her husband, his mother, and their children arrived in New York on 1 Sep 1882 aboard the steamer "St. Germain" which had departed from Le Havre, France. In 1898, they were living in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, when they finally sold their property in Weisweil. They had nine children, all in Baden:

  1. Karl Friedrich (1862).
  2. Johann Georg (1864).
  3. Maria Barbara (1866).
  4. Wilhelm (1868).
  5. Katherina (1870).
  6. Anna Maria (1874).
  7. Christina or Christian (1874).
  8. Otto (1877).
  9. Maria Magdalena (1882).

Katherina

The parents of the previous children were Michael Henninger and Katherina Karcher. Michael passed away sometime before 1857, the year Katherina is first found listed as a widow. Before leaving for St. Louis, she sold her belongings for the amount of 1,380 Gulden. They had the following children:

  1. Maria Salomea (Mary) (1831-1910) previously discussed.
  2. Katherina (1833) who is not known to have emigrated.
  3. Johann Michael (Michael) (1835) previously discussed.
  4. Maria Barbara (Barbara) (1843) previously discussed.
  5. Johann Georg (George) (1849-1935) also previously discussed.

Notes

  1. [The former Grand Duchy of Baden is now part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.]
  2. [Douglas County, Colorado, was a very large county in 1870 and has since been divided into Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln, and Kit Carson Counties. The site of Bijou Basin is now in Elbert County nearly on the border between that county and El Paso County. It is northeast of Peyton and northwest of Calhan.]
  3. [Find more Michael Henninger/Elise Kleinwort family details in the Kleinwort Family History.]

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