Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Horstmann was born in 1865, in Kiel, Schwesing, Ostenfeld (Husum), Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, her father, Hans Hinrich Horstmann, was 40 and her mother, Antje Margaretha Lamprecht, was 36. She married John William Kreutzfeldt on 11 April 1887, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, United States for about 45 years. She died on 4 May 1949, at the age of 84.
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- Emma Kreutzfeldt in household of William Kreutzfeldt, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
- Emma Horstmann, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- Emma Horstmann in entry for Hermann Felix Crossfield, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Theodor, Bernhard, Dieter, Fritz, Heinz, Kurt, Otto, Uwe.
North German: topographic name, a variant of Horst , with the addition of Middle Low German man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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