Otto Joseph Kolbe
  Otto Joseph KOLBE, 1891-1934
Farmer
Emilie's cousin

 Father Emil KOLBE, 1856-1927
 Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK Kolbe Lipps, 1855-1948
       Brother Emil KOLBE, 1884-1884
       Brother Rudolph KOLBE, 1887-1973
       Sister Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE Meyer, 1888-1975
       Otto Joseph KOLBE, 1891-1934

Time Line

27 February 1891 - Born at Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

17 March 1894, age 3 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 39, divorced from Emil KOLBE, age 37, at Circuit Court for Sheboygan County, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

29 March 1894, age 3 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 37, married Henrietta KOEBEL, age 21, at Plymouth

19 June 1894, age 3 - Half-sister Henriette KOLBE born at Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

25 August 1894, age 3 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 39, married Christian LIPPS, age 40, there

9 November 1895, age 4 - Half-sister Annie Mary LIPPS Beiersdorf born at Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

10 February 1897, age 5 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE born at Sheboygan

30 March 1897, age 6 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE died there of convulsions

6 May 1898, age 7 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE born there

6 October 1899, age 8 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE, age 1, died at Plymouth Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin of infantile atrophy
Otto Joseph Kolbe Otto and Rudolph Kolbe

26 May 1900, age 9 - Half-sister Lillian Rose Mary KOLBE born

18 December 1900, age 9 - Grandmother Maria Magdalena STRNADT Kolbe, age 83, died at County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin of senile debility and exhaustion

1 January 1902, age 10 - Half-brother Emil C KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

5 December 1904, age 13 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE born in Wisconsin

6 December 1904, age 13 - Half-sister Theresa KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp

12 March 1905, age 14 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE born in Wisconsin

14 May 1906, age 15 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE, age 1, died at Greenbush Twp of gastritis

8 December 1906, age 15 - Court Case. Otto's father, Emil Kolbe, sued the threshing crew, Schmahl, Leonard, and Holzmann from the Town of Rhine. Otto was to work for the crew for $1.50 per day, but he was only paid $1.25. He was also to be paid for firing the boiler in the steam engine in the morning, and he was not paid for this. Judge Mahlstedt ordered the crew to pay Otto the money he was owed.

23 May 1908, age 17 - Illness. Otto, who is working for Joseph Prindeville, contracted pneumonia.
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24 January 1910, age 18 - Sister Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE, age 21, married John G. MEYER, age 21, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 661 N 4th Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Sometime before August 1910 - Half-sister Theresa KOLBE died
The Kolbe and Schenk Families The Kolbe and Schenk Families at the Meyer's House Schenk Sisters Visit Kolbe Family Farm

1 August 1912, age 21 - Mother's husband Christian LIPPS, age 58, died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan of Sepsis of gall bladder, peritonitis and shock

As of sometime before August 1913 - Resided at San Diego, San Diego County, California

25 October 1913, age 22 - Half-sister Annie Mary LIPPS, age 17, married Albert Gustave BEIERSDORF, age 21, at St Mark Lutheran Church, Sheboygan

9 March 1921, age 30 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE, age 15, died at Greenbush Twp

As of sometime before 1927 - Resided at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

20 May 1927, age 36 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 70, died at Greenbush Twp of uremia following chronic nephritis, chronic myrocardics

25 October 1930, age 39 - Brother Rudolph KOLBE, age 43, married Meta RAUSCH, age 29, at Plymouth

As of sometime before 1934 - Resided at Greenbush Twp

19 October 1934, age 43 - Died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan of coronary thrombosis, chronic nephritis

22 October 1934 - Buried at Greenbush Cemetery, Greenbush Twp