Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum
Federal Land Patent
Warren County, Missouri, 1844
.gif "land patent for Adolph H. Fiegenbaum")
The property is described in this land patent as:
"...the North East quarter of the South East quarter, and the East fractional half of the North East quarter of Section eight, in Township forty five, of Range two West in the District of Lands subject to sale at St. Louis Missouri, containing eighty one acres and forty seven hundredths of an acre."
| Aliquot Parts |
Section/ Block |
Township | Range | Fractional section |
Meridian | State | County |
| NESE | 8/ | 45-N | 2-W | no | 5th | MO | Warren |
| E1/2NE | 8 | 45-N | 2-W | yes | 5th | MO | Warren |
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. On 1 October 1840, a land patent 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."
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. The land patent shown here for 81.47 acres of land in Warren County, Missouri was issued in St. Louis, Missouri to "Adolphus Fiegenbaum, of Warren County, Missouri" on 1 August 1844.
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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