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  August Ferdinand BENZ, 1853-1917
Tanner, farmer, day laborer
Edward Benz's father

3 November 1853 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern at 4:00 AM

6 November 1853 - Baptized there. Godparents were Johann Wendorf, Büdner from Gützlaffshagen, Johann Benz, laborer from Treptow and Friederika PAGENKOPF Wendorf Köhler from Gützlaffshagen (the mother's sister)

4 April 1855, age 1 - Brother Ferdinand BENZ born there ; Brother Wilhelm BENZ born there

6 June 1855, age 1 - Brother Wilhelm BENZ died there

3 April 1857, age 3 - Grandmother Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there

7 July 1858, age 4 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there

29 January 1861, age 7 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there

25 September 1864, age 10 - Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there

18 March 1865, age 11 - Grandfather Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there

24 January 1871, age 17 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there

30 January 1871, age 17 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)

30 April 1872, age 18 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.

16 May 1872, age 18 - Immigrated at New York, New York

As of 1876 until 1900 - Occupation listed as tanner

3 September 1876, age 22 - Married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Attendants were Ferdinand BENZ and Otto Johann Friedrich HOGE

27 October 1876, age 22 - Filed Declaration of Intention at Municipal Court of City & County there

3 September 1877, age 23 - Daughter Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel born there

As of 1879 - Resided at 938 Holton St there. (Old street numbering system.)

2 June 1879, age 25 - Daughter Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ Boehmer born there

1880, age 26 - Recorded in the United States Census there

Sometime after 1880 - Father Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A.

20 November 1881, age 28 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee

7 October 1882, age 28 - Son Georg Johann August BENZ born there

25 May 1883, age 29 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, age 24, died there of tuberculosis

22 July 1884, age 30 - Daughter Rose W S BENZ Newmann born there

23 January 1887, age 33 - Son Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ born there

12 June 1888, age 34 - Naturalized at Circuit Court there. Witnesses were Gustav Jordens and August F Stahl

4 February 1892, age 38 - Daughter Lillian "Lilly" BENZ born there

16 May 1897, age 43 - Father-in-law August Ferdinand HOGE, age 68, died at 970 Holton St there of atherouatous degeneration of the circulatory system

6 June 1900, age 46 - Recorded in the United States Census at Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

28 April 1901, age 47 - Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, age 72, died at Milwaukee of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility

6 November 1901, age 48 - Daughter Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ, age 24, married William ENGEL, age 20, at Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

15 June 1904, age 50 - Daughter Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ, age 25, married Alfred F A BOEHMER at Milwaukee

1905, age 51 - Occupation listed as day laborer

1 June 1905, age 51 - Recorded in the Wisconsin census at Mequon

As of sometime before 1910 until sometime after 1913 - Resided at 970 Holton St, Milwaukee. After the 1920s this was 2564 N Holton St.

1910, age 56 - Occupation listed as farmer

26 April 1910, age 56 - Recorded in the United States Census at Milwaukee

9 December 1914, age 61 - Wife Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, age 57, died at 970 Holton St there of exophthalimic goiter

18 December 1915, age 62 - Daughter Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel, age 38, died there of complications following appendicitis surgery

21 January 1917, age 63 - Died there

24 January 1917 - Buried at Union Cemetery there