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Johann Gansemer

Generation 5 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Gregory James Leineweber ← John James Leineweber ← John Baptiste Leineweber ← Catharina Gansemer ← Johann Gansemer

Born

May 17, 1816, in Taben, Taben-Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia (now Germany)

Died

April 28, 1874, in Peru Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA

Married

January 28, 1847, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia

Also known as

John Gansemer

Migration

November 5, 1862: Johann and wife and children were documented to leave for North America

Photos

Johann Gansemer (1816-1874), Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa; gravestone photograph by Cheryl Locher Moonen.

Family

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Mother

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Spouse

Children

Johann Gansemer
b. February 5, 1848, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. February 8, 1848, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Matthias Gansemer
b. October 22, 1849, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. June 19, 1853, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Peter Gansemer
b. December 3, 1851, in Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. October 8, 1857, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Catharina Gansemer
b. February 14, 1856, in Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. October 14, 1857, in Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Elizabeth/Elisabeth Gansemer
b. March 23, 1860, in Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. April 18, 1920, in New Vienna, Dubuque County, Iowa
m. Peter Naumann: March 1716/April 627, 1880, in Sherrill, Iowa
Johann “John” Gansemer
b. June 13, 1864, in Dubuque County, Iowa, USA · d. August 24, 1874, in Dubuque County, Iowa, USA

Siblings

Anna Gansemer
b. October 21, 1807, in Taben, Sarre, French Empire · d. April 13, 1809, in Taben, Sarre, French Empire
Margaretha Gansemer
b. February 28, 1810, in Taben, Sarre, French Empire · d. May 3, 1825, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia
Matthias Gansemer
b. November 19, 1811, in Taben, Sarre, French Empire · d. March 6, 1886, in Sherrill, Iowa, USA
m. Elisabeth Thome, January 23, 1855, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia
Magdalena Gansemer
b. July 30, 1818, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia
m. Johann Neuses, February 10, 1852, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia
Elisabeth Gansemer
b. October 12, 1821, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia · d. January 31, 1826, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia
Jakob Gansemer
b. October 4, 1823, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia · d. September 1, 1837, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia

In brief

Born May 17, 1816, in Taben, Taben-Rodt, Lower Rhine, Prussia (now Germany). November 5, 1862: Johann and wife and children were documented to leave for North America. He married January 28, 1847, in Taben, Lower Rhine, Prussia and worked as farmer. He died April 28, 1874, in Peru Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA.

Life story

A Rhineland Weaver Turned Iowa Farmer

Johann Gansemer was born on May 17, 1816, in Taben, in Prussia's Lower Rhine province, and worked there as a day laborer and linen weaver before deciding, in 1862, to emigrate with his wife and children — telling authorities he intended to keep weaving linen and “later do agriculture” in America, and recorded as carrying the considerable sum of 2,000 thaler. The family sailed from Le Havre aboard the Admiral, reaching New York on December 29, 1862, after a storm-battered forty-six-day crossing, and settled in Peru Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, where Johann bought an 83-acre farm in 1863 and expanded it steadily over the following decade. He married Katharina Dühr in Taben on January 28, 1847. In his 1874 will he left the farm to his wife for her lifetime, then to be divided among their children. Johann died in Peru Township on April 28, 1874.

At a glance

Work

Farmer

Lived

Peru Township, Dubuque County, Iowa

Sources (16)

1870 U. S. census, Peru Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, population schedule, Dubuque Post Office, page 14 (penned), dwelling 106, family 103, Ganseman and Hinterer; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 390.
Alfons Tapp, ed., Die katholische Pfarrei St. Quiriacus und Auctor in Taben-Rodt 1677-1899 (Koln-Widdersdorf, Germany: Westdeutsche Gesellschaft fur Familienkunde e. V., 2008), page 154, 160, 162, 275.
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Bernd Heinz, Tabener Auswander: Von Taben nach Amerika 1850-1899 (Taben-Rodt, Germany: Bend Heinz (author), 2017), pages 18, 39, 41, 93, 190-201.
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Dubuque County, Iowa, Deed Lands Book X: 495-496, 28 January 1863; digital image; Dubuque Recorder/Registrar, Dubuque Recorder/Registrar (http://cotthosting.com/iadubuque/HTML5Viewer/ImageViewer.aspx?OIB=true : accessed 22 August 2021).
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Dubuque County, Iowa, Tax List Books Vol 37-226, 1863-1883; microfilm; “Dubuque County Tax Lists, 1853-1906,” Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.
Ancestry, Find A Grave, database with images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84611433 : accessed 27 August 2021), memorial 84611433, Johann Gansemer (1816-1874), Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa; gravestone photograph by Cheryl Locher Moonen.
Joan Remakel and Sara Ludwig, compilers, Declaration of Intent to Become a Citizen, Book 2, 1856-1872 (Dubuque, Iowa: Dubuque County-Key City Genealogical Society, 1990-1992).
Bonnie, Holy Cross Church (Holy Cross, IA), Church Records on Leineweber-Gansemer Family; report to Meghan Leineweber (Woodinville, WA), 17 September 2021; privately held by Meghan Leineweber, Woodbridge, VA.
Joe Schallan, Elisabeth Gansemer Nauman: A Chronology and Biography,” 23 January 2024; privately held by Joe Schallan.