Tommy Lawler wrote: > Hi Nance, > The History of Eau Claire County, 1914 is the book I was thinking but > did not know the exact wording. Think it was one of your postings from > the History of Eau Claire County, 1914, I spotted information that Minna > Heimstaedt was wife to Hermann Leipnitz. We had been looking for this > information so thanks for this! Was wondering if you could look and see > if there were anymore listings for the two surnames - > Heimstaedt/Heimstadt/Heimstead or Leipnitz. Supposedly my great > Grandfather - Hermann Heimstaedt had at least 3 sisters, one was Minna. > Am trying to track the rest of the group. Thanks allot Nance. Ann > Lawler Hi Ann, I'm glad to hear that you were able to use the Leipnitz information. I've looked through all of my resources and found a few more things that may be of help to you. First of all, in the 1884 Eau Claire City Directory were these listings, along with the URLs of the pages they are found on: LEIBNITZ, Herman, carpenter, res s s Niagara 2 w of Seventh ave. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/directories/1884j-l.txt HEIMSTAD, Herman, cigarmaker Wm Luebkemann, res s s Niagara 2 w of Seventh ave. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/directories/1884g-i.txt And in the book "The Rivers Flow On" by Lois Barland on page 437, is this short bio on Karl H. Leipnitz, which sounds very much like the one for Herman. Here it is: Karl H. LEIPNITZ was born in Germany and married Emilie Heimstead in 1883, coming to Eau Claire that year. He was a cabinet maker for Phoenix Furniture Company. They had sons, Paul, Arthur, William and Walter. Paul married Mae Avery in 1911 and lived in Elk Mound, Walter married Alta Walker and had a son, Clare; Arthur married Mable Bloomquist and was a machinist. That's all I could find on both of the surnames that you mentioned. There was no other instance of these names in the "History of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, 1914", as per the index, but I'm hoping this other information will be of help to you. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net