Marriage:
Occupation:
Mary
Anna Crescentia Stimmler
April 1904
Head of American Linen Co.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
Theodore Benninghoff Mary Anna Crescentia Stimmler April 1904 Head of American Linen Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Children: | John | June 27, 1905 | |
| Anthony | Oct. 2, 1907 | ||
| Joseph | July 30, 1912 | ||
| Bertha C. | Sept. 13, 1914 | ||
| Theodore | Jan. 3, 1920 | † Aug. 11, 1935 | |
| Note: |
In the 1880 United States census, George was 4 years old and living
with his parents and 3 siblings in Midland, Lancaster county,
Nebraska. His 35-year-old father was a stonemason born in
Pennsylvania of German parents; his 27-year-old mother was born
in Ireland of Irish parents. [Source: NA Film No. T9-0751, p. 157A]
On April 28, 1910, George was 32 years old and living with his wife Annie, their two sons and his widowed mother-in-law Crescentia Stimmler in Robbinsdale Village, Hennepin, Minnesota. He stated his father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother was born in Ireland. He was working as the manager of a wholesale house [Source: 1910 U.S. Census, Robbinsdale, Hennepin, Minnesota; Roll T624_699, Page 7B, Enumeration District 5]. Robert R. Mullally reminisces about his Uncle George and Aunt Annie: "UNCLE GEORGE AND AUNT ANNIE, WE AFFECTINGLY REFERRED TO THEM AS OUR RICH AUNT AND UNCLE, FOUNDED THE AMERICAN LINEN LAUNDRY COMPANY IN MPLS WITH THE STEINERS. THEY STARTED THE COMPANY IN THE EARLY 1900'S WITH THE TWO MEN PUSHING HAND CARTS PICKING UP RAGS FROM MANUFACTURING PLANTS, THE WOMEN WOULD THEN WASH THEM THE RAGS, AND THEN THE MEN WOULD DELIVER THE WASHED RAGS AND PICK UP THE NEXT LOAD. AMERICAN LINEN DEVELOPED INTO ONE OF THE LARGEST UNIFORM, BEDDING, INDUSTRIAL SMOCKS, AND WIPE RAG BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY." from a January 3, 2005 e-mail |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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