Author : Helen Miller Graber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis Joseph Goldsmith, 1796-1876 by : Helen Miller Graber
Download or read book Joseph Goldsmith, 1796-1876 written by Helen Miller Graber and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Goldsmith (1796-1876) was the son of Conrad Goldschmidt (d.1817) and Katherine Koenig (d.1836) of Tannzapfen-Muhl, near Rapperswyr in Alsace, France. Joseph emigrated in 1819 to America. He married Elisabetha Schwartzentraub (b.1807), an emigrant from Lich in the Wetterau, Germany, in 1824. The Goldschmidt family is a Mennonite family of Swiss origin. They originated at Richtersweil, Switzerland and settled in the region of Markirch (Sainte Marie aux Mines), Alsace. "Joseph ... [had] residences in Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio and in Iowa where he served as a bishop of the Amish Mennonite churches in Lee and Henry counties."--Page 4. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Idaho, Connecticut, California, Missouri, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Washington, Indiana, Oklahoma, Indiana, Tennessee, New York, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arizona, Michigan, Colorado and elsewhere