| Parents: Occupation: Marriage: |
Henry Bernard Dingmann Gertrude Marie Vosseberg Owner of blacksmith shop [1890s] Proprietor of retail hardware store [Source: 1930 U.S. Federal Census] Bertha Gertrude Stimmler May 14, 1889 Farming, Dakota, Minnesota by his bride's uncle, Father Valentine Stimmler |
| Children: | Crescentia Maria | Mar. 24, 1890 | † Nov. 4, 1962 |
| John Anthony | June 7, 1891 | † Aug. 1, 1954 | |
| Gertrude Sophie | Oct. 11, 1892 | † Feb. 22, 1923 | |
| Mary Theresia | Nov. 6, 1894 | † Jan. 6, 1988 | |
| William Maxwell | Nov. 26, 1896 | † Sept. 2, 1979 | |
| Adolph Henry | Sept. 13, 1898 | † June 8, 1979 | |
| Marcus Jerome | May 28, 1900 | † Feb. 13, 1989 | |
| Aloysius Theodore | June 21, 1901 | † Dec. 27, 1974 | |
| Minrot Paul | Mar. 26, 1903 | † Aug. 20, 1988 | |
| Sylvester Louis | July 4, 1905 | † Sept. 20, 1964 | |
| Francis Edward | Mar. 1, 1907 | † Nov. 25, 1974 | |
| Carl George | Aug. 16, 1908 | † Oct. 4, 1993 | |
| Robert Joseph | Mar. 11, 1910 | † Apr. 9, 1988 | |
| Ralph Benjamin | May 26, 1911 | † Oct. 12, 1972 | |
| Notes: | In the 1880 United States census, John was 16 years old and living with his parents, six siblings and maternal |
grandmother Katie Vosberg
on the family farm in Stearns County, Minnesota [Source: NA Film
No. T9-0634, p. 387B].
Fire plagued the growing village during the nineties and destroyed several of the frame buildings. . . . In March of 1898 the Great Northern depot burned to the ground. A week later, a volunteer fire department was organized with Barton Clark, chief; John Dingmann, foreman; Henry Goenner, secretary; Edgar White, treasurer. The village purchased its first fire engine in 1902.In 1900 St. Marcus Parish of Clear Lake, MN was incorporated. Bernard Powers and John Dingmann were the first trustees of the incorporated parish.Church of St. Marcus: Story of a Community, by Patricia K. Witte, p. 30 In the United States Census for 1900, Joseph Leander Kampa and Bertha's brother Paul Stimmler are both listed as boarders in the Dingmann household. At the time of the April 2, 1930 census, John was 66 years old and living with his wife Bertha and sons Jerome, Robert and Ralph in their own home valued at $5,000 (approx. $50,000 in 2001 dollars) on Market St. in Clear Lake village. The family owned a radio. John stated that he was born in Minnesota and his parents were born in Hanover, Germany. He said he was married when he was 26 and Bertha was 21 years old. John was the proprietor of a retail hardware store at which son Ralph worked as a helper. Son Jerome was a mail carrier on a rural route. "In the early nineteenth century, the undertaker was a middleman in the bereavement process. The undertaker was seen as a trade profession and was originally part of the liverymen or carpenters’ responsibilities. Throughout this time period, the family handled burial rites, religious services and memorial processions. The undertaker provided the coffin and transportation for the family and the dead. However, by the late nineteenth century, the undertaker’s role expanded to include preparing the dead, embalming the corpses, notifying friends and relatives, arranging the funeral service, floral arrangements, obituaries, and coordinating the burial.9 The trade had evolved into a profession and undertakers became known as funeral directors. In actuality, the funeral director evolved from a combination of occupations: the liverymen, who were responsible for the hearse and funeral carriages; the carpenter, who made the coffins; the church sexton, who was responsible for the bell-tolling and grave digging; and the midwife or nurse, who historically prepared the body and laid out the dead." -- Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death Revisited (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), 148. |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
Stimmler/Stimler-Kampa Family Album
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