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Metz family : genealogy of Jacob Metz of Rosenthal, Germany, and Boonville, Indiana /

Jakob Metz was born in 1813 at Rosenthal, Hessen, Germany, the son of Johannes and Maria Magdelena Balzer Metz. He immigrated to the United States in 1834, and settled first at Baltimore, Maryland. He married Anna Fischback (1813-1853), daughter of Lorenz and Philippina Metzger Fischbach, in Baltimo...

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Main Author: Longyear, Edmund J. 1864-
Corporate Author: Arthur H. Clark Company.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Altadena, Calif. : Priv. print. for the author, 1932
Subjects and Genres:
Metz, Jacob, > 1813-1901 > Family.
Metz family.
Balzer family.
Fischbach family.
Helwer family.
Metzger family.
German Americans > Indiana > Boonville > Genealogy.
German Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Genealogy.
German Americans > Ohio > Dayton > Genealogy.
German Americans > Ohio > Greenville > Genealogy.
Families.
German Americans.
Rosenthal (Hesse, Germany) > Genealogy.
Hesse (Germany) > Genealogy.
Germany > Hesse.
Indiana > Boonville.
Maryland > Baltimore.
Ohio > Dayton.
Ohio > Greenville.
Genealogy.
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Summary: Jakob Metz was born in 1813 at Rosenthal, Hessen, Germany, the son of Johannes and Maria Magdelena Balzer Metz. He immigrated to the United States in 1834, and settled first at Baltimore, Maryland. He married Anna Fischback (1813-1853), daughter of Lorenz and Philippina Metzger Fischbach, in Baltimore. They had eight children. After several years in Baltimore, the family moved to Dayton, Ohio. He married his second wife, Katharine Helwer (1834-1899) at Greenville, Ohio, in 1855. They had thirteen children. The family moved to Boonville, Indiana, ca. 1856. He died there in 1901. Descendants listed lived in Indiana, California, and elsewhere
Item Description: "Two hundred copies ... printed ... May, 1932."
Includes index.
Physical Description: 3 preliminary leaves, [11]-64 pages : portrait ; 25 cm

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