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August William WENDT

Male 1862 - 1945  (83 years)


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  • Name August William WENDT 
    Birth 22 Aug 1862  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1945-MN-000027 
    Occupation Painter 
    Death 21 Dec 1945  Aitkin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Settled in Hutchinson in McLeod County, Minnesota, when he first came to the U.S. in about 1878. That’s where he was living, as a day laborer, with his wife Annie and his daughter Ida in the 1895 state census. He and Annie had been there for 7 years which confirms the 1888 date of emigration for the Wendts.

      In the 1900 census, he is a painter living in Aitkin. He had come to the U.S. in 1868 and his wife in 1886. Daughter Ida was 12 years old and in school. Living with the family was Anna’s 73 year-old father, Ferdinand Schumann.

      In the 1910 census, he is August Wendt, a house painter living in Aitkin with his wife and grandson. Young Edwin is age 4.

      In the 1920 census, he is C Wendt, living in Aitkin. He is a printer or a painter with his own shop. He and his wife were born in Germany and he came to the U.S. in 1885 and she in 1881. Fourteen-year-old Edwin is listed as their son.

      Claimed to have emigrated in 1888 in the 1930 census. Showed 1878 in the 1910 census.

      Living in town in Aitkin at the time of the 1930 census with, they claimed, their son Edwin. In the 1910 census, however, they claimed he was their grandson and indicated “don’t know” for the place of birth of Edwin’s father.

      The history of the Immanuel Lutheran Church says that August Wendt built and donated the altar. This would have been in the late teens of the 20th century because the church was built in 1916.
    Person ID I1265  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 5 Dec 2013 

    Family Anna Marie Josephine SCHUMANN,   b. 24 Jul 1859, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Feb 1933, Aitkin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 17 Jul 1887  McLeod County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • this is the MOMS date, other sources say 24 Jul 1887
    Children 
     1. Eda B WENDT,   b. 25 Nov 1887, Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1960 (Age 72 years)
    Family ID F916  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 May 2010