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  Emil KOLBE, 1856-1927
Geschäftsleihen (shopkeeper)
Emilie's uncle

15 September 1856 - Born at #76, Eckersdorf, Kreis Troppau, Austrian Silesia

18 September 1856 - Baptized there. Godparents were Alois Alscher, Bauer from Eckersdorf and Charlott Tomenka from Auspitz

9 July 1859, age 2 - Sister Emilia KOLBE born at #76 there

Sometime before 1875 - Brother Edmund Carl Adolph "Mundi" KOLBE married Sophie JELINEK

18 July 1877, age 20 - Brother Karl KOLBE, age 22, died at #85, Eckersdorf of tuberculosis

Resided at #85 there

2 November 1878, age 22 - Sister Emilia KOLBE, age 19, died at #85 there of Tuberculosis

13 January 1880, age 23 - Sister Maria Magdalena Carolina "Marie" KOLBE, age 29, married Albert Florian SCHENK, age 28, there

21 November 1882, age 26 - Married Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 27, at Jägerndorf, Kreis Troppau, Austrian Silesia. Attendants were Elweirn Moritz, Grundbesitzer from Jägerndorf and Albert Florian SCHENK, Kaufmann from Jägerndorf

19 June 1883, age 26 - Father-in-law Albert SCHENKE, age 59, married Johanna Paulina Dorothea "Dorothea" KüHNEL, age 41, there

14 March 1884, age 27 - Son Emil KOLBE born at #85, Eckersdorf and died at #85 there of Stillborn birth

13 December 1884, age 28 - Father Johann KOLBE, age 73, died at #85 there

2 October 1887, age 31 - Son Rudolph KOLBE born at Jägerndorf

29 June 1888, age 31 - Daughter Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE Meyer born there

7 July 1889, age 32 - Filed passport request. Included on application with his mother, wife, and children.

25 August 1889, age 32 - Emigrated in Bremen. The Emil Kolbe family and his mother traveled on the S S Rhein, not in the usual immigrant steerage class, but in their own private cabin as 'tourists'.

12 September 1889, age 32 - Immigrated at Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland

Sometime before 1891 - Sister-in-law Sophie JELINEK Kolbe died at Wien, Niederösterreich

27 February 1891, age 34 - Son Otto Joseph KOLBE born at Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

Sometime before 1892 - Brother Edmund Carl Adolph "Mundi" KOLBE married Karoline "Lini" at Wien

As of sometime after 1892 until sometime before 1897 - Resided at 1637 Main Aveue, Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

As of sometime after 1892 until sometime before 1899 - Occupation listed as laborer there

17 March 1894, age 37 - Divorced from Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 39, at Circuit Court for Sheboygan County, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

29 March 1894, age 37 - Married Henrietta KOEBEL, age 21, at Plymouth. Attendants were William E Wolf and Herman Miller

19 June 1894, age 37 - Daughter Henriette KOLBE born at Sheboygan

27 September 1894, age 38 - County Court Case. A case involving George Koebel and Emil Kolbe was settled in favor of the claimant.

As of 1897 until sometime before 1899 - Resided at 1617 Martin Avenue, Sheboygan

10 February 1897, age 40 - Daughter Amelia H. KOLBE born there

30 March 1897, age 40 - Daughter Amelia H. KOLBE died there of convulsions

6 May 1898, age 41 - Son Emil KOLBE born there

As of about 1899 - Resided at Greenbush, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

6 October 1899, age 43 - Son Emil KOLBE, age 1, died at Plymouth Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin of infantile atrophy

26 May 1900, age 43 - Daughter Lillian Rose Mary KOLBE born

18 December 1900, age 44 - Mother Maria Magdalena STRNADT Kolbe, age 83, died at County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin of senile debility and exhaustion

2 September 1901, age 44 - Mother-in-law Katharina REINECK Koebel, age 68, died at Town of Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin of blood-poisoning from a hand injury four weeks earlier

28 November 1901, age 45 - Farm purchase. Real estate agent, John Geis, sold the 96 acre Henry and William Monk farm in the Town of Greenbush to Emil for $2500.

1 January 1902, age 45 - Son Emil C KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

5 December 1904, age 48 - Son Karl KOLBE born in Wisconsin

6 December 1904, age 48 - Daughter Theresa KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp

12 March 1905, age 48 - Son Albert KOLBE born in Wisconsin

14 May 1906, age 49 - Son Karl KOLBE, age 1, died at Greenbush Twp of gastritis

30 May 1906, age 49 - Sister Maria Magdalena Carolina "Marie" KOLBE Schenk, age 56, died at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin of melancholia; exhaustion due to refusal of food; duration of disease 10 years

About 1910, age 53 - Brother Edmund Carl Adolph "Mundi" KOLBE, age 61, died at Wien

24 January 1910, age 53 - Daughter Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE, age 21, married John G. MEYER, age 21, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 661 N 4th Street, Milwaukee

Sometime before August 1910 - Daughter Theresa KOLBE died

22 August 1911, age 54 - Horse wagon versus automobile accident. Emil and John Meyer were on their way home to the Town of Greenbush in Emil's horsecart when they met an automobile which would not yield the right of way. The horse bolted, tore its harness and ran away. The cart was thrown against a stone fence. Emil and John were slightly injured. The horse was later caught.

25 May 1914, age 57 - Naturalized at Circuit Court, Sheboygan. Witnesses were Emil Clarenbach, real estate financing from Sheboygan and John Kummer, city comptroller from Sheboygan

9 March 1921, age 64 - Son Albert KOLBE, age 15, died at Greenbush Twp

2 October 1921, age 65 - Father-in-law George KOEBEL, age 95, died at Town of Plymouth of senility, weakness of old age

About 1922, age 65 - Brother's widow Karoline "Lini" Kolbe died at Wien

1927, age 70 - Occupation listed as farmer

20 May 1927, age 70 - Died at Greenbush Twp of uremia following chronic nephritis, chronic myrocardics

Buried by George L Wittkopf at Greenbush Cemetery, Greenbush