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Decendants of C. KOBERSTEEN

2. Carl Lewis KOBERSTEEN

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Karl Kobersteen
Arrival Date: 5 Sep 1922
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: German
Ship Name: Mount Clinton
Search Ship Database: Search the Mount Clinton in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Germany
Line: 5
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_3189
Birth Location: Germany
Birth Location Other: wartmanwrsth
Page Number: 179

Family appears in the Milwaukee City Directories for the first time in 1921 and for the last time in 1948.

Posting in Ancestry.com database by Gary Kobersteen Kelly (name legally changed from Ronald Gary Kobersteen:
"Carl was my dad's (Ronald John's father). Carl was my grandfather and shared several bits of information to me. The first was that the first Kobersteen to came to America from Germany, was seventeen and stowed away on a ship. He was escaping the conscription o Kaiser. The second item was that the name Kobersteen was actually Koberstein. The "i" was dropped in recording due to the dot over the "i" being omitted."
"My given name is Ronald Gary Kobersteen. Ron was my father. Carl was my grandfather and was Ron's Dad. Hannah was my grandmother and Ron's mother. I had a legal name change from Ronald Gary Kobersteen to Gary Kobersteen Kelly in 1965. I was told by Carl Kobersteen that our name's spelling was changed from Koberstein to Kobersteen because it was recorded with out the dot on the i. Carl Kobersteen also told me that the first Kobersteen to came to American in the 1850's from Germany by stowing away on a ship at age seventeen. He was excaping Kaiser's conscription."

Newspaper entries for Koberstee(i)n:
From the Sheboygan Press of Sheboygan, Wisconsin

dated April 20, 1913
"Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kobersteen 1710 North Thirteenth street are the proud parents of a little eight pound daughter."

dated April 21, 1913
"Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kobersteen 1710 North Thirteenth street are the proud parents of a little eight pound daughter." ed.note a duplicate

dated December 17, 1914 advertisement
"Attention Auto Owners, A new Garage, known as THE NORTHSIDE GARAGE will be opened for business in a few days equipped with everything necessary for the REPAIRING OF AUTOMOBILES and Machinery in general. Ten years experience, (two years with the Rummel Auto Co.) In this lin enables us to guarantee first class work. THE NORTHSIDE GARAGE TREMBE & KOBERSTEEN 1210 Michigan Avenue"

dated June 25, 1915
"Mrs. C. Kobersteen will entertain the members of her club at her home on North Thirteenth street, Tuesday afternoon."

dated June 28, 1915
"C. L. Kobersteen of the North Side Garage attended the automobile races at Chicago Saturday."

dated June 29, 1915
"Mrs. C. Kobersteen was hostess to the members of her club at her home this afternoon."

dated August 17,1915
"Mrs. Carl Koberstein and daughter Janet are spending ten days with relatives at Columbus."

dated October 7,1915
"Mrs. Koberstein was hostess to the members of her club at her home on North Thirteenth street, Tuesday afternoon."

dated December 9, 1915
"Geroge and Arthur Kobersteen, of Kilbourn, are visiting at the home of Carl Kobersteen, 1710 North Thirteenth street, for a few days."

dated March 18, 1916
"Mr. and Mrs. Carl Koberstein entertained the memembers of their club at their home on North Thirteenth street Thursday evening."

dated April 19, 1916
"Mrs. Carl Koberstein and daughter, Jane, 1710 North Thirteenth street, left today for a visit with Mrs. Koberstein's parents at Columbus, Wis. Mr. Koberstein will join them over Sunday."

dated June 13, 1916
"Local news happening in and about town
Mrs. L. Berdell returned to her home in Columbus, Saturday, after a three week's visit with her daughter Mrs. Carl Koberstein, and family of North Thirteenth street."

dated August 22, 1917
"About Town
John Koberstein of Kilbourn, is visiting at the home of his brother, Carl Koberstein, 315 Wisconsin avenue."

dated September 2, 1916
"Mr. and Mrs. Carl Koberstein and daughter will leave tomorrow for a weks motor trip to the Wisconson Delsl." ed.note actual spelling

dated September 15, 1916
"Miss Cora Kobersteen is spending the day in Milwaukee, attending the state fair."

dated November 2, 1916
"Mrs. Carl Kobersteen has returned from a three days visit at Milwaukee."

dated October 8, 1918
"Bowling
Mead Ladies Evening
Stouts
Miss Koberstein
G. 82
W. 100
L. 91
Pct. 273

dated October 17, 1918 (probable Advertising)
"Owners of the finest cars recommend the better auto repairing, the kind that stand the test, done at the North Side Garage, 1210 Michigan avenue. Phone White 460. Koberstein and Trempe, Prop."

dated November 22, 1918
"Bowling
Mead Club
Navy
Koberstein
G. 111
W. 100
L. 145
Pct. 356"

Entry from Society column
March 18, 1916 Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Koberstein entertained members of their club at their home on North Thirteenth street Thursday evening.

April 19, 1916 Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
Interesting Local Events
Mrs. Carl Koberstein and daughter, Janet, 1710 North thirteenth street, left today for a visit with Mrs. Koberstein's parents at Columbus, Wis. Mr. Koberstein will join them over Sunday.

January 7, 1919 Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
Bowling
Mead Ladies Evening
Stout
Mrs. Koberstein G.84, W.98, L.111, Pct. 293

July 16, 1919 Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
Mrs. Carl Koberstein and children left Tuesday for Milwaukee, and after a short visit there they will visit her sister at Okauchee.

Reference that indicates that Kilbourn of old is now named Wisconsin Dells: http://www.dells.com/dellshistory/index.htm

One of the oldest sites to appear on maps of the western Great Lakes region is the "Dalles" of the Wisconsin River. It was identified as a convenient reference point by French explorers in the 1700's. The name stuck after the French explorers left Wisconsin, with the spelling and pronunciation Anglicized as the "dells". When the railroad arrived in 1857, the new village established at the point where the tracks crossed the Wisconsin River, was named Kilbourn City in honor of the railroad's president - but locals and visitors alike never stopped referring to the area as the "Dells". In 1931, the city of Kilbourn officially changed its name to Wisconsin Dells.

Social Security Death index from which the death information for both Carl and Hannah was obtained indicated Carls last residence as Rio Linda, Sacramento, CA and the social security number as 387-07-2109.

Hannah BERDALL

Social Security Death Index from which death information was derived gave social security number as 399-09-7619.

Hi, below is the latest info I have on this family. You will notice that the name spelling is BERDOLL and that is correct. Your Hannah and my Josephine ended up using the spelling of BERDALL. I do not know when the changed, but the records in the Columbia County Court House in Wisconsin are clear. In addition the LDS records list the French spelling as BERDOLL and that is where Louis was born. As time permits I will dig deeper. Thanks for your info, Armin Gumerman
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Descendants of Louis Berdoll

Generation No. 1

1. LOUIS1 BERDOLL was born Abt. 1835 in France1, and died Bef. 1925 in Columbus, Columbia County, Wisconsin2. He married SOPHIA REIDER Unknown. She was born January 26, 1850 in Austria2,3, and died October 23, 19254.

More About LOUIS BERDOLL:
Occupation: Saloon Keeper5

Children of LOUIS BERDOLL and SOPHIA REIDER are:
i. OTTO2 BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1870, Columbia County, Wisconsin5.
ii. LOUIS BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1875, Columbia County, Wisconsin5.
iii. WILLIE BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1875, Columbia County, Wisconsin5.
2. iv. ELMER BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1877, Columbia County, Wisconsin; d. Unknown.
3. v. JOSEPH PATRICK BERDOLL, b. October 5, 1878, Columbia County, Wisconsin; d. September 30, 1965, Columbus, Wisconsin.
vi. MARY BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1880, Columbia County, Wisconsin5.
vii. ALBERT BERDOLL, b. July 27, 1883, Columbia County, Wisconsin6; d. December 1971, Milwaukee, Wisconsin6.
viii. LENA C BERDOLL, b. Abt. 1885, Columbia County, Wisconsin7; m. FRANK MCGRAY, JR, October 17, 1911, Columbia County, Wisconsin7; b. Unknown.
ix. HANNA BERDOLL, b. November 22, 1889, Columbia County, Wisconsin7; m. CARL KOBERSTEIN, June 27, 1911, Columbia County, Wisconsin7; b. Unknown.
x. LEO BERDOLL, b. Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2. ELMER2 BERDOLL (LOUIS1) was born Abt. 1877 in Columbia County, Wisconsin8, and died Unknown. He married ANNA BASSLER October 2, 1901 in Columbia Co, Wisconsin9, daughter of LOUIS BASSLER and JOSEPHINE UNDERSTOECK. She was born Unknown.

Marriage Notes for ELMER BERDOLL and ANNA BASSLER:
Birth listed under the name Bardoll

Child of ELMER BERDOLL and ANNA BASSLER is:
4. i. JOSEPHINE3 BERDOLL, b. July 14, 1902, Columbia County, Wisconsin; d. June 27, 1987, Sun City, Arizonia.

3. JOSEPH PATRICK2 BERDOLL (LOUIS1) was born October 5, 1878 in Columbia County, Wisconsin9,10, and died September 30, 1965 in Columbus, Wisconsin11. He married CAROLINE ADELIA ZINK May 16, 1905 in Columbus, Wisconsin11, daughter of LOUIS ZINK and ADELIA ANKENBRANDT. She was born February 7, 188411, and died May 26, 1945 in Columbia County, Wisconsin.

Children of JOSEPH BERDOLL and CAROLINE ZINK are:
i. ADELIA CORA3 BERDOLL, b. March 28, 1907, Columbia County, Wisconsin11; d. March 15, 1962, Columbia County, Wisconsin11.
ii. CATHERINE MARY BERDOLL, b. May 7, 1909, Columbia County, Wisconsin11; m. NORBERT J IOMBROOSKE, May 7, 1935, Columbia County, Wisconsin11; b. Unknown.
iii. BERNARD L BERDOLL, b. August 13, 1912, Columbia County, Wisconsin11,12; d. October 11, 1994, Milwaukee, Wisconsin12.
iv. NORBERT BERDOLL, b. January 20, 192112; d. October 1974, Wisconsin12.

Generation No. 3

4. JOSEPHINE3 BERDOLL (ELMER2, LOUIS1) was born July 14, 1902 in Columbia County, Wisconsin13, and died June 27, 1987 in Sun City, Arizonia14. She married DR GEORGE JOHN GUMERMAN II August 3, 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin15, son of JOHANN GUMMERMANN and AMANDA JUBECK. He was born April 27, 1906 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin15, and died April 3, 1998 in Tucson, Arizonia16.

More About JOSEPHINE BERDOLL:
Burial: August 20, 1987, Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin17

More About DR GEORGE JOHN GUMERMAN II:
Burial: March 30, 2001, Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin17
Occupation: Physician
Religion: Catholic

Child of JOSEPHINE BERDOLL and GEORGE GUMERMAN is:
i. DR GEORGE JOHN4 GUMERMAN III, b. February 6, 1936, Milwaukee, Wisconsin18; m. SHEILA BAUMGAERTNER, December 22, 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin18; b. April 13, 1937, Milwaukee, Wisconsin19.

More About DR GEORGE JOHN GUMERMAN III:
Occupation: Archaeologist

Endnotes

1. 1880 Federal Census - Wisconsin.
2. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
3. 1880 Federal Census - Wisconsin.
4. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
5. 1880 Federal Census - Wisconsin.
6. Social Security Death Index.
7. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
8. 1880 Federal Census - Wisconsin.
9. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
10. 1880 Federal Census - Wisconsin.
11. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
12. Social Security Death Index.
13. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
14. Obituary.
15. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
16. Obituary.
17. Cemetery Record.
18. Vital Records, Wisconsin.
19. 1860 Federal Census - Indiana.

7. Lois KOBERSTEEN

Listed in the Milwaukee city directories for the first at an address separate from parents in 1942 as a clerk.