Hi Nance, This information is perfect and helps allot. Thanks soooo much. Ann LOawler -- 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