KARL or CHARLES "Charley" KAUFMANN

Born: August 31, 1821     Lambsheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died: August 3, 1881    Laketown, Carver, Minnesota
Buried: Victoria Cemetery    Victoria, Carver, Minnesota

Parents:

Occupation:

Marriage:

Johannes (John) Kaufmann
Anna Maria Maul

Farmer
Accessor

Magdalena C. Stimmler
November 1, 1847
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children:	John	Aug. 13, 1849	† Nov. 3, 1916
	Frank Xavier	Apr. 2, 1852	† Nov. 15, 1923
	Maria A.	June 9, 1853	†
	Emma Maria	Dec. 8, 1856	† Oct. 29, 1949
	Katherine M.	Nov. 13, 1859	† July 10, 1924
	Ottilia M.	Feb. 28, 1862	† Sept. 23, 1937
	Joseph	Abt. 1864
	Nicholas Charles	May 26, 1867	† Dec. 11, 1958

Notes:

When Charles was a teenager in August 1838 he immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland from Germany with his

parents and four of his five siblings on the Ship Everhard. They settled in Cherry, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Once he and Lena were married, he and his young family lived in Manayunk, Pennsylvania before moving to Minnesota with his parents and father-in-law in July 1854. The family located for a brief period at St. Paul and later moved to Carver County where they resided on a farm in Laketown for some years. On May 11, 1858, Charles was elected as assessor during the first town meeting to organize Laketown. In the 1860 Minnesota census he was listed as having $1,000 in real estate and $400 in personal estate. Charles died in Laketown on August 3, 1881 of complications from asthma. He was 59 years old.

Robert R. Mullally comments on the Kaufmann homestead: "The Kaufmann homestead in located west of Victoria of HWY #5 on the south side of Lake Auburn, now part of Minn. State Park, and near the Stimmler homestead. There are no buildings left standing." -- from a Dec. 10, 2008 e-mail