Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: George Leutz
• Research Notes: Herman’s name is given as “George” on his birth certificate. It is almost certainly him, though, as Minnie had only four children and the other three are accounted for.

Notes:

Shares a gravestone with both parents, brother Henry, and grandmother Sophia Knuth.

Buried:
Section 16

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Painter, Express company foreman (painted signs and truck sides)
• Research Notes: Age is given as 22 years on marriage license, which would put his birth in about 1858.
• Emigration: 1868
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Census:
2851 Sacramento

Died:
2851 N Sacramento Avenue

Buried:
Section 16

Henry married Minnie Knuth on 24 Dec 1880 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Minnie (daughter of Johan Knuth and Sophia Kortuer) was born on 3 Dec 1859 in Pommern, Prussia; died on 11 Mar 1944 in Norwood Park, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried on 15 Mar 1944 in Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: Nora White gives Minnie’s birthplace as “Schwenmunder, East Germany (now Poland).” It seem likely that this is actually Swinemünde (now Świnoujście, Poland). According to the 1900 and 1910 censuses, Minnie had four children, three of whom were still living. Minnie’s name appears crossed-out in the 1880 census entry for her father’s household. She probably left the household shortly before the census.
• Immigration: 20 Apr 1870, New York, New York County, New York, USA
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1930, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Living with her daughter Louise at the time of the 1930 census.

Census:
2851 Sacramento

Buried:
Section 16

Notes:

Family lived at 1604 Sacramento Ave N, Chicago in 1900 and 2851 Sacramento Ave N, Chicago in 1910 (this is the same location; the address changed in 1909).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: John
• Also Known As: Wilhelm Emil
• Cause of Death: Asthma
• Occupation: Seaman, furniture finisher
• Research Notes: According to Elaine Schoelzel (and her mother Emma Knuth Schoelzel), his name was Wilhelm Emil, but the 1880 census and emigration records list Johan. The children’s names and ages match other information about the family and Johan is listed as a seaman on the passenger list, which matches information from Nora White that he was a sailor on the ship which brought the family to America. (Nora is a descendant of Minnie Knuth.) Entry in the 1880 census appears on the same page as Jacob Oestmann. Jacob’s daughter Anna married Johan’s son Charles in 1875.
• Immigration: 20 Apr 1870, New York, New York County, New York, USA
• Census: 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Family was from Swinemünde, Pomerania, which is now Świnoujście, Poland. They departed from Hamburg on the Prinz Albert and arrived in New York on 20 April 1870. Employed at a Furniture Works in 1880.

Census:
196 Rucker Street

Johan + Sophia Kortuer. Sophia was born in Nov 1827 in Swinemünde, Pommern, Prussia; died on 12 Mar 1903 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried in Mar 1903 in Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Sophie
• Cause of Death: General arterial sclerosis with acute bronchitis
• Research Notes: Full maiden name is given on the death certificate of Sophia’s daughter Emelia. Last name is difficult to read. Perhaps “Kortuer” or “Korthauer.”
• Immigration: 20 Apr 1870, New York, New York County, New York, USA
• Census: 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Had lived in Illinois for 32 years at the time of her death, putting her emigration in 1870-71. Sophie is buried at Forest Home with her daughter Minnie and son-in-law Henry Leutz. The three of them share a single headstone (along with two of Henry and Minnie’s sons). Sophia’s death place is given on her death certificate as 896 Crystal St., this is also her residence in an 1898 Chicago directory. This address is the residence of her daughter Augusta and son-in-law August Hagen. She does not appear in the 1900 census in their household, however.

Census:
196 Rucker Street

Buried:
Section 16

Died:
896 Crystal St.

Notes:

Family lived at 196 Rucker in Chicago (now Racine, near the intersection with Chicago) in 1880. Johan and Sophia may have had additional children who stayed behind in Swinemünde.