Born Johann Gerhard Stegemeyer in Herford, Westphalia, Prussia to Johann Ernst Gottlieb Stegemeyer & Marie Christine Petram, he was baptized 11 days later in the MUENSTER GEMEINDE EVANGELISCH KIRCH (Muenster Congregation Evangelical Church) in that same city.
Calling himself 'George', he arrived with no companions on 20 May 1854 at New York's Castle Garden, having sailed on the SS Bremen from the port of Bremen, and he never looked back.
By the 1860 census, he was living near the town of Pope in Washington County, Wisconsin where he owned land. His bride-to-be lived close by in the town of Staatsville, and shortly after that census he married and started his own family.
He moved into the metropolis of Milwaukee, pursing his talents as a joiner, millwright and carpenter.
He was able to employ those skills in the service of the Union Army during the Civil War, where he was an Artificer with Company A of the 1st US Veteran Volunteer Engineers, sent to Chattanooga to protect the railway, build bridges and create defense works.
He returned to his family after the war and saw all three of his sons marry and start their own families, too.
In 1897 he became a resident in the US National Soldier's Home in Wood, just outside of Milwaukee. He traveled back and forth between there and his old residence where his wife still lived for nearly two decades before his death at home from pneumonia in the winter of 1915.
While at the Soldier's Home, a fellow resident was his brother-in-law, John Bornheimer, who had married Carolina Landgraf.
Calling himself 'George', he arrived with no companions on 20 May 1854 at New York's Castle Garden, having sailed on the SS Bremen from the port of Bremen, and he never looked back.
By the 1860 census, he was living near the town of Pope in Washington County, Wisconsin where he owned land. His bride-to-be lived close by in the town of Staatsville, and shortly after that census he married and started his own family.
He moved into the metropolis of Milwaukee, pursing his talents as a joiner, millwright and carpenter.
He was able to employ those skills in the service of the Union Army during the Civil War, where he was an Artificer with Company A of the 1st US Veteran Volunteer Engineers, sent to Chattanooga to protect the railway, build bridges and create defense works.
He returned to his family after the war and saw all three of his sons marry and start their own families, too.
In 1897 he became a resident in the US National Soldier's Home in Wood, just outside of Milwaukee. He traveled back and forth between there and his old residence where his wife still lived for nearly two decades before his death at home from pneumonia in the winter of 1915.
While at the Soldier's Home, a fellow resident was his brother-in-law, John Bornheimer, who had married Carolina Landgraf.
Born Johann Gerhard Stegemeyer in Herford, Westphalia, Prussia to Johann Ernst Gottlieb Stegemeyer & Marie Christine Petram, he was baptized 11 days later in the MUENSTER GEMEINDE EVANGELISCH KIRCH (Muenster Congregation Evangelical Church) in that same city.
Calling himself 'George', he arrived with no companions on 20 May 1854 at New York's Castle Garden, having sailed on the SS Bremen from the port of Bremen, and he never looked back.
By the 1860 census, he was living near the town of Pope in Washington County, Wisconsin where he owned land. His bride-to-be lived close by in the town of Staatsville, and shortly after that census he married and started his own family.
He moved into the metropolis of Milwaukee, pursing his talents as a joiner, millwright and carpenter.
He was able to employ those skills in the service of the Union Army during the Civil War, where he was an Artificer with Company A of the 1st US Veteran Volunteer Engineers, sent to Chattanooga to protect the railway, build bridges and create defense works.
He returned to his family after the war and saw all three of his sons marry and start their own families, too.
In 1897 he became a resident in the US National Soldier's Home in Wood, just outside of Milwaukee. He traveled back and forth between there and his old residence where his wife still lived for nearly two decades before his death at home from pneumonia in the winter of 1915.
While at the Soldier's Home, a fellow resident was his brother-in-law, John Bornheimer, who had married Carolina Landgraf.
Calling himself 'George', he arrived with no companions on 20 May 1854 at New York's Castle Garden, having sailed on the SS Bremen from the port of Bremen, and he never looked back.
By the 1860 census, he was living near the town of Pope in Washington County, Wisconsin where he owned land. His bride-to-be lived close by in the town of Staatsville, and shortly after that census he married and started his own family.
He moved into the metropolis of Milwaukee, pursing his talents as a joiner, millwright and carpenter.
He was able to employ those skills in the service of the Union Army during the Civil War, where he was an Artificer with Company A of the 1st US Veteran Volunteer Engineers, sent to Chattanooga to protect the railway, build bridges and create defense works.
He returned to his family after the war and saw all three of his sons marry and start their own families, too.
In 1897 he became a resident in the US National Soldier's Home in Wood, just outside of Milwaukee. He traveled back and forth between there and his old residence where his wife still lived for nearly two decades before his death at home from pneumonia in the winter of 1915.
While at the Soldier's Home, a fellow resident was his brother-in-law, John Bornheimer, who had married Carolina Landgraf.
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