Correspondence added December 12, 2005, Passenger 163, SCHUBERTH
Passenger #163, listed as Wilhelm Schubeth, is Wilhelm Schuberth.
He was born ca 1814 in Guben, northeast of Dresden. He moved to
Wandsbek, Holstein, by 1846, when his children were born. He was
a carpenter/cabinet-maker.
After arriving in the U.S., Wilhelm Schuberth settled in Cincinnati,Ohio,
and by 1856 had an apartment at #181 at the corner of 5th and Elm in the
city's center. In the fall of 1856, he and Christian F.M. Westphal,
a friend from Wandsbek who had arrived in the U.S. in July 1856, decided
to pool their money and buy three adjoining farms near Crete, Will Co.,
Illinois. [Christian Westphal is my great-great-grandfather. Crete is
south of Chicago about 30 miles.] The Schuberths moved to Illinois and
in with the Westphals in the fall of 1857, but by the spring of 1858,
the relationship and farming arrangement had failed. The Schuberths
then returned to Cincinnati.
After arriving in the U.S., Wilhelm and Christiane Schuberth had four
more known children: daughter Martiana, born after 1851 and died summer
1855; twin daughters Emma and Frances, born May 24, 1857 in Cincinnati
(Frances died in 1858); and another son, Francis, born 1860 and died
spring 1864.
Around 1864, Wilhelm Schuberth and his family moved again to Sewickley
Township, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He gave up carpentry
to become a farmer.
Son Wilhelm (passenger #165), born 1846 in Wandsbek, became a carpenter and
builder near Cincinnati. He married Emma Williams and by 1880, had two children,
Charles and Margery M.
Son Henry C./Heinrich (passenger #166), born June 7, 1848, in Wandsbek, became
a tobacco dealer in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the firm Bunzl & Dormitzer of New York
City. He married Sarah Oletta Shultz on September 29, 1870. They had three
children: Clifford M., Mary, and Shultz.
Son August C. (passenger #166), born 1850, made his home in Cincinnati, but
by 1920 had moved to Pasadena, California. He and his wife, Margaret, had at
least one son, William.
Son Charles/Carl (passenger #167), born 1851, settled in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. In 1880, Charles and his wife, Mary, had a daughter Lucy and
a son Albert.
I am not related to the Schuberth family. However, the close relationship
between them and my own family significantly shaped my family's history. and
that is why I have done some research about them. I would be interested in
corresponding with any descendants of Wilhelm Schuberth.
Ellen Wonderlin
Des Moines, Iowa