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Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Eventually they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Eventually they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
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Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Eventually they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Eventually they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
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