Jacob Michel

1824 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Jacob Michel  [1]
  Birth	12 Oct 1824	Frankfort, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I54832	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2004

  
  

  Father	Johannes Michel,   b. Germany d. 1828, Germany
  Mother	Catherine Nonkassar,   b. Germany d. 1828, Germany
  Family ID	F24791	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louisa Krakow,   b. 1829-1830, Mecklenberg, Ger d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1852	Dubuque, IA
  Children	1. Katie Michel,   b. 1852-1853, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   2. Sophia Michel,   b. 1853-1854, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   3. F. William Michel,   b. 1855-1856, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   4. Henry Michel   5. Benjamin Michel,   b. 1859-1860, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   6. Jenny Michel,   b. 1864-1865, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown   7. Flora Michel,   b. 18 May 1867, Iowa d. May 1945 (Age 77 years)   8. Philip Michel,   b. 1869-1870, Iowa d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F22960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 1852 - Dubuque, IA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  (Michel is pronounced like "Mitchell")   Attended the public schools in Germany until his fouteenth year, when his father died, adn a week later his mother passed away. After the death of his parents he began learning the shoemakers trade, serving a three years' apprenticeship to the same in Offenbach.   After completing his term of service he travelled through sourthern Germany, and in France and Switzerland, working as a journeyman, but did not find a place which seemed to him ot offer the attractions and advantages whih were attributed to the New World.This led him to seek a home in the United Stated, and in 1847 he took passage on a westward bound sailing vessel, which a few weeks later dropped anchor in the harbor of New York.   He went at once to St. Louis, Mo., where he spent two years working at the showmaker's trade, and in 1850 he came to Dubuque, where he has since made his home. Census: 1860 Dubuque Iowa Jacob Mitchel 35 Shoe Maker Darmstadt Elizabeth Mitchell 31   Mecklingberg Kate Mitchel 8   Iowa Sophia Mithell 6   Iowa William Mitchell 4   Iowa Andrew? Mitchell 2 Iowa   May Bagel 15   Mecklenberg Census: 1880 Dubuque Iowa name relation age born in occupation father born mother born   Jacob Michel self 55 Frankfort Shoe Store Frankfort Frankfort   Elisabeth Michel wife 50 Mecklenburg Keepinmg House Mecklingburg Mecklenburg   Catherine Michel dau 27 IA at home Frankfort Mecklingburg   Sophia Michel dau 26 IA at home Frankfort Mecklingburg   William Michel son 24 IA Clerk in Shoe Store Frankfort Mecklingburg   Benjamin Michel son 20 IA Clerk in Drug Store Frankfort Mecklingburg   Jenny Michel dau 15 IA School Frankfort Mecklingburg   Flora Michel dau 13 IA School Frankfort Mecklingburg   Philip Michel son 11 IA School Frankfort Mecklingburg   Mary Hines other 18 OH Servent         Jacob and Elizabeth were still living in Dubuque at the time of the 1895 Iowa Census - age 70 and 66.   There is Jacob is listed as "Michel, Jacob Greenfield 8/21/62 Corp., Sergt.; wnd. and pris. Chancellorsville, wnd. 6/22/64, Chattanooga, Tenn." in the Roster of the 26th Wisconsin Regiment. Perhaps the biography will tie this in to our Jacob. For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site

  
  

• Sources

  [S883] Chicago. Chapman Pub. Co.. 1894., Portrait and biographical record of Dubuque, Jones and Clayton Counties, Iowa.