| Parents: Marriage: Occupation: |
Anton Imholte Mary Kemper/Kempker John Kaufmann 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 Housewife and midwife |
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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 | |
| Notes: |
Mary grew up on her parents' homestead in section 3 of the old town of
St. Augusta, and lived with them there in a log cabin.
In 1874 John Kaufmann came to St. Augusta and was employed in the construction of a church as a stone mason, and was married that year to Mary Imholte. Three years later their family settled in the town of Clear Lake on a farm. At the time of the 1880 United States census, Mary was 28 years old and living with her husband John and their children Mary, John and Isabella on the family farm in Clear Lake, Sherburne county, Minnesota. Her husband was working as a farmer assisted by her younger brother, John Imholte, age 22 and single. [Source: NA Film No. T9-0633, p. 200A] Around Christmas in 1889, just after Clear Lake's St. Marcus Church had been built and the new reed pump organ installed, Mary Imholte Kaufmann organized the first parish choir. "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] Mary Ann's last residence was St. Cloud, where she died of diabetes on August 23, 1900, age 48 years 2 months and 2 days. |
| Ancestry: | The Frederick Imholte Line |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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