JOHANN or JEAN "John" STIMMLER

Born: December 10, 1791    Wilwisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Rhin-Bas, France
Died: June 21, 1870    Laketown Township, Carver, Minnesota
Buried: Victoria Cemetery   Victoria, Minnesota

Parents:

Military Service:

Marriage:

Occupation:

Antoine Stimmler
Maria Hess

Hussar under Napoleon
in French Calvary

Mary Magdalene Schmitt
November 25, 1817
Alsace-Lorraine, Rhin-Bas, France

Carter (wagoner, a person who drove a vehicle used to transport goods)
Sexton (in 1863)

Children:	Marie Ann	Oct. 8, 1818
	Maria	Mar. 1, 1822
	Magdalene C.	Nov. 15, 1824	1903
	Theresa Franciska	Apr. 29, 1827	Dec. 14, 1892
	Johann	Aug. 6, 1829	Dec. 13, 1906
	Valentine Nicholas	Dec. 6, 1833	Jan. 16, 1908
	Franciska "Frances" Cecelia	May 30, 1835	Feb. 7, 1912
	Franz Anton	May 14, 1838	Nov. 30, 1906

Notes:

Johann was a hussar in the French Cavalry under Napoleon, then discharged and sent home shortly after Waterloo in 1813 to care for his orphaned brothers and sisters.

Johann, Magdalena and their family lived in Wilwisheim, Alsace, France. They immigrated to the United States, departing LaHavre aboard the packet ship Sully under the command of Captain William C. Thompson and arriving in New York on November 28, 1839. Johann was 48 years old at the time [Source: N.A. Film No. M237-40, List 862]. He and his family were listed on the ship's manifest thusly:

Jean Stimler, age 48, M
Magd. Stimler, age 44, F
Magd. Stimler, age 15, F
Therese Stimler, age 11, F
Jean Stimler, age 9, M
Nicolas Stimler, age 6, M
Fransisca Stimler, age 3, F
Franz Stimler, age 1, M

With them they took two beds, a chest, a trunk and four bags.

Johann and his family eventually settled in Manayunk, Pennsylvania. He built a stone house between 1839 and 1840 at Tower Lane and Shurs Street that still stands and is inhabited.

He came to Laketown Township, Carver County, Minnesota in 18__ with his son Anthony and his family and passed away there from complications of heart disease on June 22, 1870. Johann is buried at Victoria Cemetery, Victoria, Minnesota with his son Anthony's and daughter-in-law Crescentia's two eldest children who died of scarlet fever seven months later.

Ancestry:	The Stimmler/Stimler Line

Taken at Entretein Studio in Manayunk, PA and labelled on reverse: 'Stimmler brothers of Rev. Valentine Stimmler OSB.'

Notation on back: "Photo reproduced from daguerreotype supplied by Gerry Stimmler (F) of Clear Lake, MN in 1972."
Back of picture labeled: "Grandpa Stimmler buried at Clear Lake, MN.
"(This is not correct - Johann is buried in the Victoria Catholic Cemetery, MN).
"Johann Stimmler 1791 - 1870
"Wife M. Magdalena (and a nick-name I could not decifer) Schmidt
"Son (later) Father Valentine Nicholas O.S.B (r. rear)
"(Priest unidentified)
"Photo probably taken around 1856-1858, possibly earlier."

Baptismal Record of Johann Stimmler, Strasbourg, France

Napoleonic Artillery

Marriage record of Mary Magdalena or Meadelaine Schmitt
and Johann or Jean Stimmler (1817)

Stimmler Birth Testimony by Burgermeister of Wilwisheim

Travelling in Steerage, 19th Century

Reise im Zwischendeck, 19. Jahrhundert

Some Pictures to Illustrate the Situation of Emigrants in the 19th Century

Einige Bilder zur Situation der Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert

Stimmler family immigration on ship Sully arriving in New York City on November 28, 1839

Photograph of the Ship Sully

Manayunk, near Philadelphia by J.C. Wild, 1838

A Historical Sketch of Manayunk, Pennsylvania