NAME(S): Alvin Kirschke

PHOTOGRAPH: # 926 & # 964

OTHER INFO: #926 - Grandpa at work, Cabinet worker
                       #964 - In Circle

PHOTOGRAPHER: Unknown (For both)

CARD SIZE:

WHERE PURCHASED: Carmine, Texas

WHEN PURCHESED: #926 - October 31, 2005
                                  #964 - December 10, 2005

RESEARCHED INFO:

Identified: Paul Otto Alwin Kirschke

Born: October 1959, Germany
Immigrated to U.S.: 1882
Occupation: Cabinet Maker
Married: Bertha J.
Children: Gussie S.C., George J.J., Bertha, & Louise A.

He was a cabinet-maker and a rather skilled one at that. He did his apprenticeship in Germany, mostly in Berlin. He left Germany "illegally" and lived in Ohio and Wisconsin very briefly before going to Texas ca. 1884-85.

Click HERE for photograph of daughter Gussie
Click HERE for photogrfaph of daughter Louise

Source: Doris Kirschke Brown
             1900 Census Houston, Texas
             1920 Census Houston, Texas
             1930 Census Houston, Texas
              Houston, Tx City Directories 1882-1895
              Houston, Tx City Directory 1917