REUNITED WITH FAMILY
PHOTOGRAPH INFORMATION
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 PURCHASED: #926
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October 31, 2005
#964
- December 10, 2005
RESEARCHED
INFORMATION
Identified: Paul
Otto
Alwin Kirschke
Born: October
1859,
Germany
Died:
Father:
Mother:
Immigrated to U.S.: 1882
Occupation: Cabinet
Maker
Married: Bertha
J.
Children: Gussie
S.C.,
George J.J., Bertha, & Louise A.
NOTES
Click HERE for
photograph
of daughter Gussie
Click HERE for
photogrfaph
of daughter Louise
Note from family
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.
SOURCES
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