Can anyone tell me about a the german lutheran school/college (Northwestern) in watertown? I was told one of my ancestors helped found it. Here's the info I rec'd: Amalia Dorthey Maria von Lauersdorf was born March 2, 1857 in Watertown, WI. She is my great grandmother. Her father was Wilhelm von Lauersdorf born April 14, 1831 in Berlin , Germany and died in 1905 He maried Anna Weigel or Weigh born January 3, 1820? in Hessen Darmstadt and died ion April 14, 1870. Amalia married Johannes Adam Petri REV. born June 1, 1850 in Ober-Dieden Hessen Darmstadt Germany. They were married August 19, 1877. He died January 10, 1910 in North Leeds-Tollsville, Wisconsin (Addison County). I was born in Milwaukee, and visited Watertown many times as a child and heard of a college scholarship at a school there that was only for von Lauersdorf family memebers. ANY info on the school, or a lead to where I can get ino, or info on the VON LAUERSDORF name. I am researching the last name of LAUERSDORF. The is the first time I've heard or seen it with the von Thanx a mil Sally Lauersdorf Hagen