Didn't know you were ill, and very happy to see you are better and back! After you have had time to catch up, write me. Take your time, no hurry! I missed you. Rita Hi Gloria and Everyone, I'm back after a long leave due to illness....and then my modem was not working, perhaps due to lightening. I am backlogged by hundreds of e-mails that were waiting for me, and I apologize to Rita and to all who may have been waiting for some kind of communication from me. I'm really sorry, and am trying to catch up. Gloria, I don't have an answer about the brick, but I'm intersted primarily in the article: Fred Ellmann was related to both my grgrandmothers, who were Ellman(n)s. Frederick Ellmann was b. abt 1841, probably in Bagemuhl or Boock, Pommern, and he married Caroline nee Ellmann. In Oconto, he was a saloon keeper until his death in 1886. The brick was perhaps ordered for one of the buildings on Main Street in Oconto, for there was a block referred to in an old advertisement in the Oconto paper as the Ellmann Block, in which my grandfather and his brothers had their business: C. E. Wittkopf Furniture. (The Wittkopf Bros. were also Undertakers, as was often the case with Furniture or Cabinetmakers.) On the left of their store in the photo was "Geo. Dagen Wines and Cigars". On the 2nd floor of the building, there is a sign reading "Salvation Army Meetings Every Night at 8 p.m...."(remainder illegible). I would appreciate any information on the location of the building(s) on Main St.; does it still exist? And anything about the furniture store, the Wittkopfs or the Ellmanns would be wonderful. As for "Pensaukee Brick"...could it be that the brick was made from materials which came from Pensaukee, which may have made superior bricks? Just a guess...if you find out, please keep us posted. It's good to be "back in the loop" again! Joann Levin received a copy of an article from this weeks Oconto Reporter, > which has a brief reference to an ancestor. In the article it indicates > he is making Pensaukee brick for a building owned by Fred Ellman. The > original article appeared in the paper July 25, 1874. > > Since what I currently have on Sevari Fabry indicates he lived in Town > of Oconto, and was a blacksmith by trade; this reference to Pensaukee > brick is interesting. > > Does anyone have any knowledge on what they would be referring to when > they say Pensaukee brick. > > Gloria