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Volume 21, Number 3, September 2003 Der Kurier Volume 23, Number 2, June 2005 Capital influences Germans found in Washington’s history, records, buildings By John T. Humphrey enerally most Americans associate September 25, 1793, he was assisted by Valentine Germans with cities in the Midwest and Reintzel, another Georgetown German. G Upper Midwest – namely St. Louis, Reintzel was asked to assist in setting the Cincinnati, Milwaukee or Chicago. They do not stone because he was the first Grand Master of the associate Germans with Washington, D.C., and Masonic Lodge in Maryland. Reintzel, who was yet when you examine the evidence, Washington, born on 26 February 1761 in Berks County as with nearly all American cities, Pennsylvania, was the son of Valentine benefited from its many residents who and Sara Reintzel. Valentine’s father were of German descent. That evidence was born in Niederhochstadt, Germany can be found in the city’s history, its in 1722; he immigrated to Philadelphia records and even in its architecture. in 1738. Georgetown, the oldest part of Details discovered in the city, predates the establishment of Washington’s city directories for the the capital by more than fifty years. The 1870s through the 1890s show the oldest house in Georgetown, located on nation’s capital continued to attract M Street between 30th and 31st Street, Germans. The evidence can be found in was built on lot 3. the city’s churches, social organizations This piece of land was acquired on 11 and even in the city’s businesses. For example in June 1764 by Christopher Lehmann, a German the 1889 City Directory there are listings for the immigrant who came to Maryland by way of Bayern Verein (Bavarian Association), the Philadelphia. The National Park Service claims Washington Deutscher Unterstüetzungs Verein, that Lehmann probably came from Pennsylvania (the Washington German Aid Society), and the in the 1760s. German Veterans Union. When George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building on (Continued on Page 32) In this issue Norm Emerick, 1921-2004 ... 31 Ahnentafel: Straw …..….. 37 New Members ………. 45-46 Adolf Cluss family ……….33-34 Der Kalender ……….…….. 38 Suchanzeigen ….……. 46-47 Door prizes ……….…………… 34 German transators ….…..39 Buchbesprechungen. 47-50 Ahnentafel how-to.......… 35-36 Fraktur Forum ……..… 40-45 Services ………………….… 51 Der Kurier Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Vol 23, No. 2, June 2005 MID-ATLANTIC GERMANIC SOCIETY P.O. Box 2642 Kensington, MD 20891-2642 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usmags/ Our mission: to stimulate and facilitate research on Germanic genealogy and heritage in the mid-Atlantic region Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (MAGS) is a non-profit genealogical society founded July 10, 1982. Annual dues are only $10 (individual) or $12 (family). Membership is open to all interested persons without regard to place of residence, nationality, or ethnicity. Benefits of membership include: Spring and Fall Meetings featuring Ahnentafels published in Der Kurier expert speakers Queries Quarterly newsletter, Der Kurier Surname Exchange Index MAGS Lending Library A membership application appears on the back cover of Der Kurier. Contact information for MAGS special services appears on the inside back cover. Officers Special Services President: John T. Humphrey Ahnentafel: Shirley E. Forrester Der Kurier Editor: James M. Beidler 1st Vice President: Susannah E. Brooks Historian: Beverly Repass Hoch 2nd Vice President: Carl Shrader Library Administrator: Mariana Wilke Membership: Susannah E. Brooks Corresponding Secretary: Patricia P. Cramer Programs: Carl Shrader Recording Secretary: Deyerle R. Atkins Publications: Corinne P. Earnest Publicity: Mary Ellen Wilmoth Treasurer: Betty deKeyser Queries: Edythe H. Millar Registrar: Diane M. Kuster At-Large Board Member: Diane M. Kuster Rep Assn German-American Soc: Merl Arp At-Large Board Member: Robert R. Reisinger Sales Manager: Judy Dohner Surname Exchange: Edward G. Winner Immediate Past President: Dorothy J. Reed Webmaster: Jeff Hughes Der Kurier is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. It is indexed in the Periodical Source Index by the Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN, and the Genealogical Periodical Annual Index by Heritage Books, Inc, Bowie, MD. Submissions to Der Kurier. Articles concerning Germanic genealogy and heritage in the Mid- Atlantic region are welcome, as are “Letters to the Editor.” Research articles should document conclusions with appropriate citation of primary sources. MAGS reserves the right to edit submissions for length and style. Any material published becomes the property of MAGS. Deadline for submissions: the first of January, April, July and October. Submit to: James M. Beidler, PO Box 270, Lebanon, PA 17042. E-mail: [email protected] Der Kurier Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Vol 23, No. 2, June 2005 FROM THE PRESIDENT By John T. Humphrey MAGS Charter Member and Founding President, Norman C. Emerick, dies at 82 AGS founding president, Norman America, but over the course of the following Emerick, died on Saturday, November summer it became apparent the National Society M 6, 2004, in Seattle, WA, of would not allow the folks in Maryland to organize complications associated with lymphoma. their local chapter in accordance with their own He was born on November 26, 1921, in wishes. Springfield, IL, where he spent his formative Thus the decision was made to establish a years. Norm was the son of Athal Elder and Hazel separate genealogical society and a flier was Frances Cooper Emerick. mailed under Norm Upon graduation from high school he Emerick’s name pursued a degree in civil engineering at the informing potential University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until members of a new he was drafted into the Army in 1942 in which he genealogical society with served with the Army Corps of Engineers in the the name Mid-Atlantic South Pacific. He was discharged in 1945 with the Germanic Society. At the rank of lieutenant. first fall seminar held on After the war he completed his education September 25, 1982, in and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Frederick, MD, officers 1949 and his Master’s one year later. On February of the society were 19, 1950, he married in Springfield to Charlotte elected. Emerick was Norman C. Emerick Lorraine Thompson. They were the parents of two chosen as president, a children, a son, Bruce C. Emerick of New York position he held for three years. City, and a daughter, Ingrid Anne Emerick of In her eulogy, Ingrid Emerick described Seattle. her father as a “man of great integrity both In 1954 Norm moved with his family to personally and professionally. He was Baltimore, MD, where he established his own uncompromisingly honest and hardworking. He engineering firm. He was an expert in soil was loyal to a fault. He was funny and had a mechanics and foundations. According to his quirky sense of humor.” daughter Ingrid, he did a lot of work for the courts I have few doubts members of MAGS in forensic engineering. He worked on projects who knew Norm agree with his daughter’s many MAGS members recognize including the characterization. Interestingly, near the conclusion Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, the Jones Falls of her eulogy she noted “he was always Expressway, St. John’s College in Annapolis, questioning the status quo and was a rebel at Fallston High School and the Bethlehem Steel heart.” plant at Sparrows Point. Norm Emerick’s willingness to challenge On March 13, 1982, temporary officers the status quo and rebel are probably the very were elected to guide the formation of a German reasons why the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society genealogical society in Maryland. Among them exists. He and those who worked with him had the were Norman Emerick and Bev Hoch. tenacity to say we are going to organize the Initially the idea was to organize the society our way. Members of the society today group as the Maryland Chapter of Palatines to say thanks! -31- Der Kurier Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Vol 23, No. 2, June 2005 German influences seen in nation’s capital (continued from Cover Page) Examples of businesses were the German- is credited with the design of more than eighty American Fire Insurance Company and the structures in Washington. German newspaper Der Volks Tribune. The city Among them are the Arts and Industries had several Lutheran churches that held Sunday Building, constructed in 1879. This structure, built morning worship services in German. Of note the to house some of the collections exhibited at the Lutheran congregation situated on the corner 6th Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and P Streets, NW probably included many recent stands next to the “Castle” on the Mall. The immigrants as the name given to the church was building reflects the style of the period in that it is “The Church of the Fatherland.” a classic Victorian structure, but detailing on the German influences can also be seen in the turrets shows Cluss’s German origins. The design city’s architecture starting with the Library of of the turrets is reminiscent of the tops of spires Congress Jefferson building. That building was found on churches and “Rathauses” or town halls built under the supervision of two Germans, John throughout Germany. L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. The building’s Cluss designed and supervised the ornamentation and embellishment was the work of construction of Charles Sumner School located on Albert Weinert, a sculptor of German descent. 17th and M Streets in NW Washington. This The neighborhood in and around the structure, which still stands, was built in 1872, the Library of Congress was home to many Germans same year, another Cluss building was erected — who probably worked on constructing the Eastern Market located on Capitol Hill. One of his Jefferson Building That evidence can be found in earlier structures is Calvary Baptist Church the structures around the library and in census located at 777 8th Street, NW.
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