| Parents: Military Service: Occupation: Marriage: |
Karl or Charles "Charley" Kaufmann Magdalene C. Stimmler Civil War Drummer boy Stone Mason Farmer [Source: NA Film No. T9-0633, p. 200A] Saloon keeper Retired hotel business [Source: MN Death Certificate 14478] Marianna "Mary Ann" Henrietta Fredricka Imholte St. Mary's Help of Christians Catholic Church January 13, 1874 St. Augusta, Stearns, Minnesota [at stone church he helped build with his uncles, Father Valentine and Anton Stimmler] Witnesses were Anthony Imholte and Margaret Bull |
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| Children: | Mary V. | Apr. 27, 1875 | † Apr. 13, 1969 |
| John Anthony | Oct. 3, 1876 | † Dec. 26, 1964 | |
| Isabella "Belle" A. | June 1, 1878 | † Oct. 21, 1969 | |
| Rosalia "Rose" | Nov. 3, 1880 | † May 16, 1979 | |
| Magdalena L. "Lena" | Sept. 16, 1882 | † Apr. 1, 1902 | |
| Ida A. | Dec. 4, 1884 | † Feb. 6, 1960 | |
| Philomine "Minnie" J. | Aug. 21, 1886 | † Sept. 1971 | |
| Regina Mary | May 6, 1888 | † Dec. 10, 1918 | |
| Alma Catherine | Oct. 1, 1891 | † May 7, 1992 | |
| Henrietta "Etta" Theresa | Nov. 20, 1895 | † Mar. 22, 1994 | |
| Widowed: | August 23, 1900 | ||
| 2nd Marriage: | Magdalena Winson | ||
| April 25, 1905 | |||
| Excelsior, Stearns, Minnesota | |||
| Witnesses were Gust Same and Otillia Same |
| Notes: | John moved from Philadelphia to Minnesota at the age of four years with his parents. The family located for a brief |
| period at St. Paul,
and later moved to Carver County where they resided on a farm for some
years. In 1872 he came to St. Augusta and was employed in the construction
of a church as a stone mason along with two of his uncles. He was married in
January of 1874 to Mary Imholte in the church they built.
Three years later he settled in the town of Clear Lake on a farm. While
living in Sherburne county he was county commissioner for several years.
In 1898 he moved to St. Cloud and conducted the Pacific Hotel. In 1903
he was elected to the city council from the second ward and while a
member of that body was its president for one term.
At the time he joined the Union Army durin the United States' Civil War, John was a laborer, 5'5" tall with a fair complexion and brown hair. John had stone masonery skills and was a farmer. In May of 1872 he and his uncles, Anthony Stimmler and Father Valentine Stimmler, helped build the stone St. Mary's Help of Christians Catholic Church in St. Augusta, Minnesota where Father Valentine was pastor (not only of St. Augusta but of other parishes as well) until 1875. The church's construction was finished in December 1872. At the time of the 1880 United States census, John was 30 years old and living with his wife Mary and their children Mary, John and Isabella on the family farm in Clear Lake, Sherburne county, Minnesota. He was working as a farmer assisted by his farm laborer brother-in-law John Imholte, age 22 and single. [Source: NA Film No. T9-0633, p. 200A] "John Kaufman, whose birthplace is in Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, was born on the 18th of August, 1849. Came with his parents (Charles Kaufman and Magdalena Stimmler) to Minnesota in 1854 or 1855, location in Carver county (rural Victoria, Lake Town township), where his family still reside. He made his home with his parents until 1874, then came to Clear Lake and selected his present farm, then in a wild state. Mr. Kaufman was a member of the board of Supervisors in 1878, and is rapidly placing himself among the foremost families of this township. He was married on the 13th of January, 1873, to Miss Mary Imholte, of Stearns county (by Father Valentine Stimmler, O.S.B.). They have been blessed with four children." from History of the Upper Mississippi Valley, Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Mpls., Minnesota Historical Society, 1881 [facts in parentheses from Robert Mullally] John Kaufmann is vividly remembered by his daughters, Rose Hollern (Mrs. William) and Alma Braun (Mrs. Henry) of St. Cloud, as a stern father and a "great patriot." He was a man who "should have been in politics." John always took an active and responsible place in the community and went to town daily to meet with the town leaders to keep up with affairs in the growing village. Rose, at 96, laughed when she spoke of his political leanings and told about the time that he and Wallace Davee had a bet on who would win the election. John lost, and paid off by wheeling Davee down Center Street in a wheelbarrow to the amusement of the townspeople who lined the street for the spectacle.In the 1910 census the Kaufmann family consisted of John Kaufmann age 61, born in Pennsylvania, Saloon keeper; Magdaline age 51, married for 5 years, no children, born in Canada; Philomina age 23; Regina age 20; Alma age 15; Henrieta age 14 and Nels Nelson, lodger born in Minnesota, who worked at a book binder shop. When examined by a doctor for his pension, John was 5'8" tall and weighed 230 pounds at the age of 46. John Kaufmann requested an increase in his pension because he reached the age of 64; the government pension bureaucrats questioned his age and requested proof. He had none so they found him with his father Charles in the 1860 census which supported the 1848 date and he therefore was denied his request for an increase as he was not age 64 in 1912. At 6:30 p.m. on November 3, 1916, John lapsed into a diabetic coma for a few minutes at his home at 227 7th Ave. S. in St. Cloud and then passed away. He was 67 years, 2 months and 21 days old. |
| Ancestry: | The Frederick Imholte Line [through marriage] |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line |
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