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Birth Name: Johann Heinrich Riedesel
Known in U.S. as: Henry D. Riedesel
Birth Date: June 22, 1841
Birth Place: Wunderthausen, district of Wittgenstein, province of Westfalen, kingdom of Prussia
Place of Death: Wheatland, Clinton County, Iowa
Place of Burial: St. Paul's Cemetery, Wheatland
Marriage(s):
Katherine Knebel, November 01, 1871, Wheatland
Louise Rixe, 1889, Wheatland
Emigration: 1867 on ship Argonaut out of Bremen, port of New York
Settlement: Kansas City briefly, but farmed most of his life at Wheatland
Known in U.S. as: Henry D. Riedesel
Birth Date: June 22, 1841
Birth Place: Wunderthausen, district of Wittgenstein, province of Westfalen, kingdom of Prussia
House of Origin: Groβeludwigs/Schreiners
(Houses in German villages had common names that were often referred to in documents, and which to this day are sometimes used to identify individuals.)
Death Date: January 29, 1917
(Houses in German villages had common names that were often referred to in documents, and which to this day are sometimes used to identify individuals.)
Place of Death: Wheatland, Clinton County, Iowa
Place of Burial: St. Paul's Cemetery, Wheatland
Marriage(s):
Katherine Knebel, November 01, 1871, Wheatland
Louise Rixe, 1889, Wheatland
Emigration: 1867 on ship Argonaut out of Bremen, port of New York
Settlement: Kansas City briefly, but farmed most of his life at Wheatland