Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum
1793-1877

Federal Land Patent
St. Charles County, Missouri, 1840

 
land patent for Adolph H. Fiegenbaum
St. Louis, Missouri; 1840
Courtesy of BLM General Land Office Records

The property is described in this land patent as:

"...the North West quarter of the South East quarter of Section twenty two, in Township forty five of Range one East in the District of lands subject to sale at St. Louis, Missouri containing forty acres..."

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Parts		 Section/
Block		 Township Range Fractional
section		 Meridian State County
NWSE 22/ 45-N 1-E no 5th MO St. Charles
 
Source: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. Accessed April 2003. Land patent for Adolphus Fiegenbaum. Accession number MO0700_.287; document number 9077.

The Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum family arrived in New Orlean, Louisiana from Germany in June 1834. One of the children reported much later in life that the family arrived in St. Louis, Missouri about July 3 or 4.

It seems likely that the family continued moving west, settling in St. Charles County, Missouri. The evangelical German church at Femme Osage has recorded the baptism of Adolph and Christine's fifth and last child, born in January 1837 and baptized in February of that year. In April 1838, Adolph delared in the the St. Charles County Circuit Court his intention to become an American citizen.

The land patent shown here for 40 acres of land in St. Charles County, east of the village of Femme Osage, was issued in St. Louis, Missouri to "Adolphus Fiegenbaum, of St. Charles County, Missouri" on 1 October 1840. We have provided a modern-day map of this land in St. Charles County, Missouri.

By 1841, Adolph's elder brother, Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum, and his extended family, numbering at least 13 people, had also immigrated to Missouri, settling in the area of Hopewell and Holstein, in neighboring Warren County. It appears that Adolph soon moved the few miles further west to be near the rest of the family. In 1844, he received another federal land patent for 81.47 acres in the same area Warren County.

By the time of the 1850 U.S. federal census, Adolph, Christine and some of his children, were living in Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa. She died in 1871 in Delaware County, Iowa, and he died in 1877 in Hancock County, Iowa.

 

Brief Genealogy

Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum's family

Christine Elisabeth Peterjohann's family

Fiegenbaum - Peterjohann family

 

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