This is my Laumeister page -- http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/u/t/Barbara-A-Butler/GENE2-0001.html I have found the parents of Stefan Laumeister -- they were Johann Nikolaus LAUMEISTER, born December 6, 1784 in Monchberg and married with Elisabeth GEIGERICH of Momlingen. Would love to have more information on Johann and Elisabeth... Think they may be the key to tying my Laumeisters together.... Not sure where John Anton LAUMEISTER fits in either -- would like to find his family and parents...... History of Santa Clara County - pg 1683 The late John A. Laumeister, a native of Frankfort, born 24 August, 1816, then in the State of Bavaria, who was also a well-educated and well-trained man of exceptional ability as a practical miller and millwright. When Germany broke out into Revolution, in 1848, he sympathized with and joined such revolutionists as Carl Schurz, and fled to America for refuge, sailing with his family to New York. He gained American citizenship at the earliest date, in 1852, and while in New York he helped to build the Croton Mills. The same year in which he became a full-fledged American, he migrated west to California for the purpose of erecting the old Pacific Mill; and later he built and managed the Laumeister Mills at Mission San Jose, Calif. He had become married in Philadelphia to Miss Fredericka Haussler, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, married in 1849, who proved an excellent helpmate, congenial to a man of his clear mind, determined character and withal, kindly heart. Although reared under Catholic auspices in Bavaria yet he became a very active and well-known Freemason in California, and a landowner of some importance near the Mission San Jose, where Gustav Laumeister was born, and where he passed his youth. In latter life, he was largely engaged in buying grain. He died in 1893, in his seventy-fifth year, as the result of an old injury. His wife outlived him by several years, attaining the age of eighty-six. There were two daughters, sisters of our subject: Anna had become the wife of Professor P. M. Fisher, of Oakland, formerly Superintendent of Schools in Alameda County and now principal of the Oakland Polythechnic, and also formerly editor of the State Educational Journal, but she is now deceased; Christina W. is Mrs. Ambrose Megahan of Oakland. BarB barbbuck@pacbell.net