I know you know the Freise name, my family and I just had lunch with Herb Freise a few weeks ago. He is 89 now, and grew up on his father's farm there. I love to hear the stories about the old days. He lives in Seattle now, and we don't live too far. He was my dad's first cousin, so my first cousin once removed I guess. Lately I was gathering some information on my great-grandfather William Kirchhoff. I was surprised, he really did quite a bit for the town of Mt Prospect. He and William Busse the commissioner, started the public school and donated the land and some of the money towards it. Wm Busse (also a relative) donated land for the Lutheran Church in Mt Prospect also, St Paul Lutheran Church, (which I had attended). Wm Kirchhoff was on the public school board for about 40 years, and was drainage commissioner for 30 years or so. He bought one of the first homes in downtown Mt Prospect in 1917. I practically grew up in that house, I didn't know it was historical. His youngest child was my grandmother, Laura Kirchhoff Stier. William Kirchhoff had a farm which he inherited from his father, William Kirchhoff (August Wilhelm Kirchhoff) born in Germany in 1822). This was one of the original farms in Arlington Heights. I put some of the genealogy, along with pictures and newspaper clippings, on rootsweb. There is an obituary of "grandma Kirchhoff" from 1904 there, she was Sophie Prellberg Kirchhoff. When William Kirchhoff retired to go live in the town of Mt Prospect, he broke up his farm into 3-100 acre parcels, his son George had the parcel with the original home on it. When I was young, in the early 1960's, this home was used by the VFW for meetings etc. Boy, I wish it had never been torn down! There is an article on how the last name really is spelled with 2 H's not 1 H. There is a picture of the 50th wedding reunion of William Kirchhoff, and his wife Marie Busse Kirchhoff in front of the original homestead. Lots of other family members are in the picture, including Zersen's, Freise's, Schaefer's, and many more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kirchhoff/50thwedding2.pdf There also is a 50th wedding anniversary picture of Henry Busse and Mary Behrens Busse, taken 99 years ago in 1907. There are many Busse's, Kirchhoffs, Freise's, Schwake's, Behren's and more. I have a pretty big box full of pictures I'll try to add, and http://newspaperarchive.com was very helpful too. My grandmother is just a child in this picture, and Henry was her grandfather. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davev/henrybusse50th.html btw, has anyone heard of a German card game called zolo or something? Erwin Kirchhoff once mentioned to me that the older relatives used to play a game called that. susan voth stier, kirchhoff, busse

-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:09:53 +0100 Subject: [ILckSCH] busse, kirchhoff, stier   freise From: "tbcsbcs" To: IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L@rootsweb.com Hello Susan and list, zolo = solo; type of a card-game in which one player opposes others. regards Joerg schnadt Potsdam, Germany My grandmother is just a child in this picture, and Henry was her grandfather. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davev/henrybusse50th.html btw, has anyone heard of a German card game called zolo or something? Erwin Kirchhoff once mentioned to me that the older relatives used to play a game called that. susan voth stier, kirchhoff, busse