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  • Name Fiegenbaum, George Adolph 
    Born 1 Jan 1855  Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Gender Male 
    Census May 1870  St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10] 

    •      According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, a minister; Clara, age 47, at home; Mary, age 19, at home; Carri, age 17, at home; George, age 16, a clerk; Anna, age 13, at home; Minnie, age 11, at home; Legette, age 9, at home; Louis Deitch, age 26, a dry goods merchant; and Mike Connelly, age 22, a clerk.
    Census Jul 1870  Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 

    •      According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, clergyman of the Methodist church, and a citizen of the USA; Clara, age 46, keeping house; Mary, age 20, blind; Carrie, age 17; George, age 15, in school; Anna, age 13, in school; Minnie, age 11, in school; and Lizzetta, age 8, in school.
    Education Between 1873 and 1878  Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13, 14, 15] 
    at Iowa Wesleyan University 

    •      George entered Iowa Wesleyan University (known as Iowa Wesleyan College since 1912) in 1873 and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1878. He was a member of the Philomathean Literary Society and the Iowa Alpha Chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. George was also a graduate of the nearby Mt. Pleasant German College, affiliated with the German branch of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
           In 1880, after receiving his M.D degree from the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College, at St. Joseph, Missouri, George also received an A.M. degree from Iowa Wesleyan University.
    Occupation Between 1880 and 1896  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 16, 17] 
    a physician 

    •      The following biographical sketch was published in History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens.... (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882):

           "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M. of the firm of Goslin & Fiegenbaum, physicians and surgeons, was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Henry H. Fiegenbaum, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, whose maiden name was Clara C. Kastenbutt, was from Hanover, Germany. The former was an itinerant minister in the German M. E. Church, and consequently made various moves. He went with his family to Wapello, Iowa, in 1860, then to Pekin, Illinois, in 1864, thence to Quincy, Illinois, in 1867, and in 1870 to St. Joseph, Missouri. George now started out on his own account by first engaging himself as clerk in a mercantile establishment. In the fall of 1873 he moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University and a theological course at the German Wesleyan College, attending the two colleges together. After five years study he was graduated in June, 1878, with the degree of A. B. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ray Beattie, and in the fall of 1878 he attended his first course of lectures at the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College. By the removal of Dr. Beattie to South America Mr. F. was obliged to choose another preceptor, which he found in the person of Dr. T. H. Doyle, of St. Joseph. He graduated in the spring of 1880, and that same year the Wesleyan University conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In July, 1880, he came to Oregon and formed a partnership with Dr. Goslin, In the spring of 1882 he received the appointment of physician of Holt County. Dr. F. is a member of the Medical Society of Northwest Missouri. He was married in October, 1880, to Miss Anna B. Brodick, daughter of the Rev. I. A. Brodick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. She was born in Burlington, Iowa, on the 16th of August, 1856. She is an active member of the Woman's Union of Oregon."

           From at least 1889 to 1894, George practiced medicine at 702 North 16th Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
    Census Jun 1880  St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 

    •      According to the 1880 enumeration, the household, living on 4th Street, in St. Joseph, consisted of Henry Fiegenbaum, age 60, married, minister; Clara, age 56, wife, married, keeping house; Mary, age 29, daughter, single,at home; George, age 25, son, single, doctor; Annie, age 23, daughter, single, at home; Minnie, age 20, daughter, single, at home; and Lizzette, age 18, daughter, single, at home.
           According to records of his marriage in October 1880, George A. Fiegenbaum was identified as a resident of Oregon, Missouri.
    Died 27 Apr 1896  St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25] 

    •      Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts provided the following transcription of an obituary for George Adolph Fiegenbaum.

      St. Joseph Daily News, Tuesday, 28 April 1896: Dr. George Fiegenbaum died last night at St. Joseph's Hospital. He had not tasted food or drink for ten days and would have starved to death had it not been for an air operation performed on him last Sunday. The unfortunate man was afflicted with a throat trouble, a stricture of the esophagus, that had been growing for a year. Dr. Fiegenbaum was educated in St. Joseph and graduated from a medical college here. He has been practicing during the last fifteen years, lately at Oklahoma City, where he located several years ago. He is a son of the Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum of 1123 North Fifth Street and will be buried from the home of his parents at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The cause of his death was a most peculiar one and baffled the skill of some of the greatest physicians in the United States. When he was first afflicted, Dr. Fiegenbaum sought relief by going to some of the best physicians in Chicago. Attempts were made there and by physicians in this city to dilate the esophagus with a tube, but it was found to be an impossibility. Ten days ago it became so bad that he could not swallow food and since then he had eaten nothing. He was slowly starving to death and as he lay in the hospital he begged the physicians to go on with the contemplated operation. There was no hope of saving his life, but he would be saved from death from starvation, and the operation was performed. "Do anything to save me from starvation and this burning thirst," said Dr. Fiegenbaum to the physicians attending him. He knew there was no hope of saving his life. The stomach was opened and food and water were placed in it. The operation was successful and if it had been performed months ago, the man's life might have been saved. He died peacefully and without suffering, and a post mortem examination of his body was made today. It was found that the esophagus and windpipe had a common opening and that the patient had strangled to death. The lungs were filled with saliva and everything that had been swallowed by him for several days -- in fact everything that went down his throat went into the lungs instead of the stomach. Before he died Dr. Fiegenbaum asked one of his friends to do him a favor, "After I am dead," he said, "and a post mortem examination has been had, I want you to take radishes and lettuce and things that look cooling and good and after mixing them with cracked ice, fill the abdominal cavity. I know it will do me no good, for I will be dead, but there is a satisfaction in knowing that it can be done and that the burning thirst will be allayed." For days before he died the sufferer was in untold agony on account of his thirst that almost drove him wild. His throat was closed and he could take no nourishment of any kind. When water could be taken a drop at a time it went into his lungs only increasing his suffering. Through it all he was patient and while he knew the end was near, he had a horror of starving to death. The unfortunate man who died was born at Galena, Illinois in 1835 and came with his parents to this state when a child. The Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum was Presiding Elder of the German Methodist Episcopal Church here for many years and has been a minister of the gospel for more than forty years. Dr. Fiegenbaum was educated at a college in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was graduated with high honors. He afterwards attended the St. Joseph Hospital and Medical College, where he was graduated. He began the practice of medicine at Oregon, Holt, Missouri about fifteen years ago, and afterwards removed to Omaha where he practiced for five years. Since then he has been practicing medicine in Oklahoma. A wife and two children are left by Dr. Fiegenbaum. His wife was a Miss Bradrick of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and they became acquainted while he was attending college there. His parents are both living and he has four sisters all of whom are living. The sisters are Mrs. J. C. Steinmetz of this city, wife of a bookkeeper for the Turner-Frazer Mercantile Company; Miss Anna Fiegenbaum with the Townsend and Wyatt Dry Goods Company; Miss Mary Fiegenbaum who lives at home, and Mrs. Thomas Curry, wife of the editor of the Oregon Sentinel. The deceased was a member of the Woodman and other lodges at Oklahoma City. All the immediate relatives are in the city and were with Dr. Fiegenbaum when he died. The deceased was a large man and was in good health before he became afflicted with throat trouble. He was well known all over this part of the state and had many friends in St. Joseph and the surrounding country. He will be buried at Ashland Cemetery in St. Joseph.

           The following obituary was published in The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri) on Friday, 1 May 1896.

                Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum

           The dark lines of great grief rest upon all this community this week, and The Sentinel will, with painful reluctance carry it to the heart of many in the announcement that Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum, passed over the river into the great unknown beyond on Monday evening last, April 27, 1896, at the age of 41 years, his death occuring [sic] at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., from stricture of the esophagus. For fifteen months the deceased had been an invalid from stricture of the esophagus, and his affliction came to him while a resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and so great was his suffering that he was compelled to abandon his practice and seek treatment in St. Joseph and Chicago. His physicians as well as kind and attentive friends did all in their power to bring about his recovery. As a last resort, after an exhaustive consultation with leading specialists and his physician, it was decided the only chance was to submit to an operation, and as a consequence the patient was removed from the home of his father, Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum, of St. Joseph, to St. Joseph's hospital where the patient was prepared and on Sunday, April 26th, his physicians, took charge of the patient and the operation was skilfully [sic] performed and was a success in every particular. The patient had been unable to take the proper nurishment [sic] for so long that he was greatly weakened, from the time of the operation, he was doing well until attacked by a spasm of coughing, which produced strangulations and from that time he continued growing weaker and weaker, until Monday evening he sank into that "sleep that knows no waking."
           He was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum, now of St. Joseph, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, was a Miss Clara C. Kastenbudt, from Hanover. George went with his parents to Wapello, Iowa, in 1860, then to Pekin, Illinois, in 1864, thence to Quincy, Illinois, in 1867, and 1870 to St. Joseph. From St. Joseph Rev. Fiegenbaum was removed to Oregon, where he was stationed for three years, during which time the subject of this sketch was taking his collegiate course. The deceased began life at this time for himself by clerking in a mercantile establishment. In the fall of 1873 he went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University. In June 1878, he graduated with high honors, the degree of A. B. being conferred. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ray Beattie, and in the fall of 1878 he attended his first course of lectures at the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College. By the removal of Dr. Beattie to South America, the deceased was obliged to choose another preceptor, which he found in the person of Dr. T. H. Doyle, of St. Joseph. He graduated in the spring of 1880, and that same year the Wesleyan University conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In July 1880, he came to Oregon and formed a partnership with Dr. Goslin, and during this partnership he was appointed county physician, this was in 1882. He was married in October 1880, to Miss Anna B. Bradrick, a daughter of Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and by this union three children were born, two now living, aged seven and three years respectively, who with their mother survive. In our half century journey on this earth, never have we seen a husband and wife live so devotedly for each other as the deceased and his now broken hearted wife. Love was supreme with them, hence their home was what "two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one," could possibly make it here on this earth. His venerable parents and four sisters are also left to mourn his loss. -- The sisters are Mrs. J. C. Steinmetz, of St. Joe, wife of a bookkeeper for the Nave & McCord Mercantile Company, Miss Anna Fiegenbaum, with the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Company, Miss Mary Fiegenbaum, who lives at home, and Mrs. Tom Curry, of Oregon. The deceased was a member of the Woodmen and Redmen lodges at Oklahoma City. All the immediate relatives were in the city and were with Dr. Fiegenbaum when he died.
           In the solemn presence of death love should be modest in its praise, and silence lay its finger upon the lips of flattery. Our friend was not faultless. He had weakenesses [sic] and imperfections; who of us have none? But under the blessed common law of love, death always pushes faults and frailties out of sight and memory touches with brighter color every virtue and living trait of character. We might speak of his loyal, passionate love of home, of the dear ones there; we might speak of his loyal constancy in friendship, but you who knew him have felt the warm grasp of that dead hand. We might dwell on his open-handed generosity, but we believe that is known to us all. We could talk of his long and heavy suffering, but we, who have been close to him know of all this, and so our thoughts and feelings and memories are more eloquent than any words we may write.
           Now let us speak of the solemn significance of life which the presence of death always suggests, even to the least thoughtful. Especially do we remember, now, these words of scripture, "in the midst of life we are death."
           But dear reader of The Sentinel remember this. No man holds a moment's lease of life. And yet life is full of jealousies, resentments, envyings and bitterness. Little words and acts have caused estrangement among those who ought to love each other. Some day you mean to be generous and forgiving. Some day you mean to take the hand you have not clasped for years. But that day may never come to you. "Now is the accepted time." Now is the time for reconciliation, for the offices of love, for the blessed ministry of forgiveness, for sweet charity, the hour of true penitence. You are waiting for tomorrow. But the curtain may be rung down upon the last act of your life today.
           Dr. Fiegenbaum had many admirable traits of character; no higher tribute could be paid to any man than to say he was incorruptible; his views may not have been right; they may not have been popular; they might even have given pain to those whom his every wish was to have saved this pain, but he was honest in his views and this honesty was steadfast to the truth as he saw it; he hated shams, despised hypocrisy, and had no patience with affectation or shallow pretense; always sincere, always thoughtful, he fully realized the imperfections of life and the short-comings of humanity; he pitied and was silent; he had faith, but that faith was not in forms or set theories, but that highest and abiding faith in the love of the Creator of Love; he was heroic in facing the end; patient and kind to all during his affliction, so that in his presence no one was aware of the mental and physical struggle he waged against pain; of fine intellect, finely developed, he was yet so retiring in disposition that only those who were closet to him insensibly were made aware of the man's remarkable ability; his mind was a great storehouse of knowledge and facts which never escaped him.
           All who became well acquainted with George Fiegenbaum liked him, for he was generous, kind hearted, true to his home and loved ones and friends; sympathetic in his nature, and was always ready to do a favor or a kindness to others if in his power. There was so much of these in his nature that endeared him to a great number, and his memory will be cherished by the many who have been made sad by his death.
           Short funeral services were conducted from the family residence at 2 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon, by Rev. C. H. Harmes, pastor of the German M. E. church, St. Joseph, and by Elder J. Tanner, of Lincoln, Nebraska, a former pastor of the deceased, after which the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Ashland cemetery, St. Joseph, to await the final resurrection.
           Friends and relatives from a distance were in attendance to pay their last sad tribute of respect and love, and telegrames [sic] of condolence were also received from dear ones in far away countries. Rev. I. A. Bradrick and wife, of Chicago, the venerable father and mother of the bereaved wife were present.

           The following notice was published in World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) on Friday, 1 May 1896.

      Dr. Fiegenbaum Dies

           Dr. George Fiegenbaum, who died Monday in a hospital in St. Joseph of stricture of the aesophagus, after submitting to an operation intended to enable him to avoid a death by starvation, lived in Omaha between Chicago and Davenport, also in the Brown Block, and was for a while connected with the Whitehouse pharmacy. He was of a retiring disposition and, while a man of ability, did not do well here, and left Omaha for Oklahoma, where he resided until illness overtook him and he went to Chicago for the operation, then to St. Joseph.

           This notice appeared in the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin; Volume 9, Number 20 (May 16, 1896), page 681.

           Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum at the St. Joseph Hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., on April 29. He had been troubled for 18 months with stricture of the esophagus, and had gone to the hospital to undergo an operation. The post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that the esophagus and the trachea had a common opening. He was 41 years old.
    Buried 29 Apr 1896  St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [26, 27] 
    • Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at the home of his parents, 1123 North Fifth Street, St. Joseph, Missouri. He was buried in Ashland Cemetery.
    Person ID I329  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 29 May 2016 

    Father Fiegenbaum, Heinrich Hermann,   b. 15 Oct 1821, Lengerich, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1905, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Kastenbudt, Clara Catherine,   b. 9 Dec 1823, Osnabrück, Kingdom of Hannover Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1897, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 11 Apr 1847  St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37] 

    •      The following is a transcription of an article published in The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri) on Friday, 16 April 1897.

                Half A Century.
                Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum and
                Wife Celebrate Their Golden
                Wedding in St. Joseph,
                Monday, April
                12, 1897.

                Were United in Marriage, April 11,
                1847 - Recipients of Many Hand-
                some Presents - Telegrams and
                Letters of Congratulations
                Received by the Score.

           This mile stone was reached by Rev. Henry and Mrs. Clara Fiegenbaum of St. Joseph, Mo., on last Sunday April 11th, 1897.
           Cards had been sent out, announcing the coming event with a reception on Monday, April 12, 1897, at their home, 1123 North 5th Street, St. Joseph, Mo.
           Sunday, April 11, 1847, found the bridal party in the house of God in St. Louis, Mo., and at the close of the sermon the minister, Rev. Casper Yost, called forward the young couple who wished to be joined in holy matrimony and then and there pronounced them husband and wife.

           [anniversary photo here]

           Last Sunday, April, 11, 1897, they had reached the Golden stepping stone, and true to their early faith, wended their way to the house of God. It being Palm Sunday, they found the church a bower of palms. At the close of the sermon, Rev. Charles Harmes, pastor in charge, called forward the bridal party, and seating them before the altar delivered a fitting address to them, and in connection read a poem written for the occasion [sic] by Rev. J. A. Reitz, of Junction City, Kansas, Mrs. Dorethia [sic] Lahrman, of St. Joseph, Mo., the only living guest and witness of the marriage in 1847, acting as one bride's maid and Mrs. Dorathea Balcke as the other bride's maid.
           After the wedding ceremony, the bridal party went to their home where a 5 o'clock dinner was served.
           Those present were Rev. F. Fiegenbaum and wife, of Oregon, Mo.; Dr. J. F. Heinz and wife, Dr. H. R. Riemer and wife, Rev. J. A. Mueller and wife, Rev. Chas. Harmes, Mrs. Rev. J. G. K[o?]st, Mrs. Rev. Geo. Schatz, Mrs. Rev. H. Lahrman and Mrs. Rev. F. Balcke, and Miss Eda Heinz, all of St. Joseph, Mo.; Tom Curry, wife, children, of Oregon, Mo.; J. C. Steinmetz and wife, Adolph, Clara, Nettie, Emma, Addie and George Steinmetz, Julia and May Neudorff, Misses Mary and Anna Fiegenbaum and Miss Lydia Gutknecht, of St. Joseph, Mo.
           As early as Thursday the letters of congratulations came rolling in, and by Wednesday, 100 letters and fifteen telegrams had been received. Donations from friends were numerous and expensive, and true to the Golden Standard of our country, the bridal couple received one dollar each for every year of connubial bliss. Rare coins, such as a $2½ gold piece, coined in 1847, and $1.00 gold pieces were found among the presents.
           It would be well to give a short sketch of the lives of this worthy couple.
           Henry Fiegenbaum was born in Ladbergen, Prussia, Oct. 16, 1820; came to America with his parents in 1832, by the way of New Orleans; thence up the Mississippi river to St. Charles county, Mo., and in 1845 to St. Louis, Mo.
           Mrs. Clara Fiegenbaum (nee) Kastenbudt, was born in Osnabruck, Hanover, Dec. 9, 1823, and came to America in 1844, first going to Cincinnatti [sic] and thence to St. Louis, where in 1846 she united with the German M. E. church, and it was then and there that these two hearts met and in the same church where each were converted and joined that the marriage ceremoney [sic] was performed, Sunday, April 11, 1847, that made them one for life - for better or for worse, and in looking back over the years, they cannot but say: Truly, the Lord has been good unto us.
           In 1847 Mr. Fiegenbaum received exhorter's license, and in 1848 was sent out to fill a charge at Okoe, Ill., until conference. He joined the Illinois conference and was sent on the Belleville circuit.
           1848 to 1850 they were stationed at Mascoutah, Ill.; 1850 to 1852, Muscatine, Iowa; 1852 to 1860 in Galena, Ill.; 1860 to 1864 in Wapello, Iowa, Presiding Elder; 1864-1867 in Pekin, Ill.; 1867 to 1870 in Quincy, Ill.; 1870 to 1872 in St. Joseph, Mo., Presiding Elder; 1872 to 1875 in Oregon, Mo.; 1875 to 1883 in St. Joseph, Mo., Presiding Elder; 1883 to 1886 in St. Joseph, Mo., as station minister; 1886 to 1889 in Sedalia, Mo., and finding his health failing him retired from active charge in the ministry and found a home in St. Joseph, Mo., from whence they celebrated their Golden wedding on last Sunday.
           "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint," - has been verified in the lives of these servants of God, and that they may spend the remainder of their lives in sweet communion with that Master and friend in whom they have trusted all these years, and that they may have a glorious golden sunset with a golden sunrise in the better world, is the wish of their many friends, both far and near.
    Residence (family) Abt 1854–1864  Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [38, 39] 
    • From 1850-1852 (in Muscatine) and again from 1854-1864, Heinrich served Methodist congregations in Iowa.
    Family ID F97  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bradrick, Anna Birdsall,   b. 18 Aug 1856, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1941, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 20 Oct 1880  Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46] 

    •      According to marriage records in Henry County, Iowa, George A. Fiegenbaum, of Oregon, Missouri, a physician and surgeon who would be age 26 at his next birthday, and Anna B. Bradrick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who would be age 25 at her next birthday, were married on 20 October 1880 at the home the bride's parents by her father, I. A. Bradrick, a minister of the Gospel. This was the first marriage for both bride and groom. Rev. Bradrick and Mary B. Bradrick, Anna's sister, were witnesses at the ceremony.

           The following notice of the marriage was published in the Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati, Ohio):

      FIEGENBAUM-BRADRICK - On Wednesday, October 20, 1880, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, by the bride's father, Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of the Iowa Conference, Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum, son of Rev. --- Fiegenbaum, presiding elder of St. Joseph District (German), Methodist Ep'scopal Church, to Miss Anna B. Bradrick.
    Residence (family) Abt 1890  Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [47, 48] 

    •      On 31 July 1890, the World-Herald, of Omaha, Nebraska, reported that the first anniversary of the birth of Helen Fiegenbaum, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Fiegenbaum, had been celebrated the day before at the family home at 1438 North Sixteenth street.
           On 1 May 1896, the World-Herald published a brief notice of the death of Dr. George Fiegenbaum and noted that he had "lived in Omaha between Chicago and Davenport.... He was of a retiring disposition and, while a man of ability, did not do well here, and left Omaha for Oklahoma, where he resided until illness overtook him...."
           Exactly how long the family resided in Omaha is not fully known at this time.
    Residence (family) Abt 1895  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [49, 50, 51] 

    •      In December 1895, George's illness was serious enough to cause his sister, Mrs. Minna Curry, to travel from Oregon, Missouri to his home to help with his care.
    Children 
     1. Fiegenbaum, Henry Allen Ernest,   b. 19 Jan 1882,   d. Bef 1895  (Age < 12 years)
    +2. Fiegenbaum, Helen Mary,   b. 30 Jul 1889, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1984  (Age 94 years)
    +3. Fiegenbaum, Clara Marguerite,   b. 1 Jun 1893, Oklahoma Territory, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1973  (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F116  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 20, 51-52.
      George Adolph Fiegenbaum, child of Heinrich (Henry) Herman Fiegenbaum and Clara Katherine Kastenbudt, was born on 1 January 1855 at Galena, Daviess [sic] County, Illinois.

    2. [S189] Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1917), page 205.
      George Adolph Fiegenbaum was born on January 1855 at Geneva [sic], Illinois.

    3. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 187, page 451 [B] (image 148).
      Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in March 2004 and in July 2008.
           Henry Fiegenbaum household, 1870 U.S. census, Adams County, Illinois, population schedule, Quincy, Ward 2, census page 10, enumerated 28 July 1870, dwelling 58, family 69, lines 10-17.
           Fiegenbaum, George; age 15; male; white; born in Illinois; father foreign born; mother foreign born; attended school within the year.
           See also this family enumerated for the 1870 U.S. census at St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri.

    4. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 762, pages 509 [A] & [B].
      Access through HeritageQuest in August 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2006 & 2008.
           Henry Feegenbaum household, 1870 U.S. census, Buchanan County, Missouri, population schedule, St. Joseph, ward 3, census pages 15 & 16, enumerated 12 May 1870, dwelling 150, family 150, lines 34-40 & 1-3. Access through HeritageQuest August 2004.
           Feegenbaum [sic], George; age 16; male; white; clerk; born in Illinois; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth.
           See also an 1870 U.S. Census enumeration for this household living in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois.

    5. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. NARA microfilm T9, roll 674, page 24D (image 0633).
      Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in July 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           Henry Fiegenbaum household, 1880 U.S. census, Buchanan County, Missouri, population schedule, St. Joseph, Supervisor’s District 70, Enumeration District 50, census page 4, enumerated 1 June 1880, 4th Street, dwelling 35, family 36, lines 39-45.
           Fiegenbaum, George; white; male; age 25; son; single; doctor; born in Illinois; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic].
           The reported age would yield a birth date of 1854-1855 by calculation.

    6. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 370.
      Biographical sketch of "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M."
           "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M. of the firm of Goslin & Fiegenbaum, physicians and surgeons, was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Henry H. Fiegenbaum, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, whose maiden name was Clara C. Kastenbutt, was from Hanover, Germany."

    7. [S211] Article or notice, "Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 1 May 1896; Page 4, Columns 4-5.
      Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1896-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           "He was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum, now of St. Joseph, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, was a Miss Clara C. Kastenbudt, from Hanover."

    8. [S279] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940 (formerly titled Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937) (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8823 in December 2017), Fiegenbaum-McKee 1880.
      Accessed in May 2016. Original data from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922 (textual records); Iowa State Archives; Des Moines, Iowa; Volume: 302 (Dubuque-Henry). The following data has been taken from relevant portions of a digital image of the source.
           Return of marriages in the County of Henry for the year ending 1 October 11. The transcription of the marriage records compiled in this volume was certified by W. L. Andrews, Clerk District and Circuit Courts (W. E. Wells, Deputy), on 1 November 1881.
           Number of license: [no entry]. Date of License: [no entry]. Who made Affidavit: [no entry]. Who gave consent to marriage: [no entry]. Groom's name: George A. Fiegenbaum. Groom's place of residence: Oregon, Missouri. Groom's age at NEXT birthday: 26. Groom's birth place: Galena, Illinois. Groom's father's name: Henry Fiegenbaum. Groom's mother's maiden name: Clara Kastenbutt [sic].
           For full details of this record, see the sources for the Fiegenbaum-McKee marriage.

    9. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 762, pages 509 [A] & [B].
      Access through HeritageQuest in August 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2006 & 2008.
           Henry Feegenbaum household, 1870 U.S. census, Buchanan County, Missouri, population schedule, St. Joseph, ward 3, census pages 15 & 16, enumerated 12 May 1870, dwelling 150, family 150, lines 34-40 & 1-3. Access through HeritageQuest August 2004.
           The household consisted of: 1) Feegenbaum [sic], Henry; age 50; male; white; Minister; born in Prussia. 2) Feegenbaum [sic], Clara; age 47; female; white; at home; born in Prussia. 3) Feegenbaum [sic], Mary; age 19; female; white; at home; born in Illinois. 4) Feegenbaum [sic], Carri; age 17; female; white; at home; born in Illinois. 5) Feegenbaum [sic], George; age 16; male; white; clerk; born in Illinois. 6) Feegenbaum [sic], Anna; age 13; female; at home; at home; born in Illinois. 7) Feegenbaum [sic], Minnie; age 11; female; white; at home; born in Illinois. 8) F[in?]egenbaum, Legette; age 9; female; white; at home; born in Iowa. 9) Deitch, Louis; age 26; male; white; dry goods merchant; value of personal estate = $100000 [sic]; born in Bavaria. 10) Connelly, Mike; age 22; white; male; clerk; value of personal estate = $500; born in Ireland.
           See also an 1870 U.S. Census enumeration for this household living in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois.

    10. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 370.
      Biographical sketch of "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M."
           "He went with his family to Wapello, Iowa, in 1860, then to Pekin, Illinois, in 1864, thence to Quincy, Illinois, in 1867, and in 1870 to St. Joseph, Missouri. George now started out on his own account by first engaging himself as clerk in a mercantile establishment."

    11. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 187, page 451 [B] (image 148).
      Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in March 2004 and in July 2008.
           Henry Fiegenbaum household, 1870 U.S. census, Adams County, Illinois, population schedule, Quincy, Ward 2, census page 10, enumerated 28 July 1870, dwelling 58, family 69, lines 10-17.
           The household consisted of: 1) Fiegenbaum, Henry; age 50; male; Clergyman of Methodist ch.; value of real estate = $3500; born in Prussia; male citzen of USA over 21 years. 2) Fiegenbaum, Clara; age 46; female; keeping house; born in Prussia. 3) Fiegenbaum, Mary; age 20; female; born in Illinois; blind. 4) Fiegenbaum, Carrie; age 17; female; white; born in Illinois. 5) Fiegenbaum, George; age 15; male; white; born in Illinois; attended school within the year. 6) Fiegenbaum, Anna; age 13; female; white; born in Illinois; attended school within the year. 7) Fiegenbaum, Minnie; age 11; female; white; born in Illinois; attended school within the year. 8) Fiegenbaum, Lizzetta; age 8; female; white; born in Illinois; attended school within the year.
           See also this family enumerated for the 1870 U.S. census at St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri.

    12. [S189] Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1917), page 205.
      Class of 1878.
           "251. George Adolph Fiegenbaum, A.B. - Born January 1, 1855, Geneva, Ill. Entered Iowa Wesleyan 1873. A.M. 1880. Philomathean. Phi Delta Theta. Graduate German College. Graduate St. Joseph College Physicians and Surgeons. Practiced medicine, St. Joseph, Mo., until death.
           "Married Anna Birdsall Bradrick (See No. 236) October 20, 1880, Mt. Pleasant.
           "Children - Henry Allen Ernest, born January 19, 1882.
                               Helen Mary, born July 30, 1889.
                               Clara Marguerite, born June 1, 1893.
           "Died 1896, St. Joseph, Mo."

    13. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 370.
      Biographical sketch of "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M."
           "In the fall of 1873 he [George Adolph Fiegenbaum] moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University and a theological course at the German Wesleyan College, attending the two colleges together. After five years study he was graduated in June, 1878, with the degree of A. B."

    14. [S211] Article or notice, "Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 1 May 1896; Page 4, Columns 4-5.
      Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1896-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           "In the fall of 1873 he went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University. In June 1878, he graduated with high honors, the degree of A. B. being conferred. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ray Beattie, and in the fall of 1878 he attended his first course of lectures at the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College. By the removal of Dr. Beattie to South America, the deceased was obliged to choose another preceptor, which he found in the person of Dr. T. H. Doyle, of St. Joseph. He graduated in the spring of 1880, and that same year the Wesleyan University conferred upon him the degree of A. M."

    15. [S284] Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, ([place of publication not identified].: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1894), page 174.
      Iowa Wesleyan University (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa), Iowa Alpha Chapter, Class of 1878. "George Adolph Fiegenbaum, A.B. A.M., Iowa Wesleyan, '80; M.D., St Joseph Hosp. Med. College, '80; Prof. Chem., St. Joseph Hosp. Med. Coll., '80. Phys. and Surg., 702 N. Sixteenth St., Omaha, Neb."

    16. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Omaha, Nebraska Directories, 1889-90.
      1889 Directory and 1890 Directory. A listing in each directory for "George A. Fiegenbaum," physician, with an address of "705 N. 16th" and an address at "1711 Chicago."
           One of these is presumably a residential address and the other a business address. Compare with the information given in the Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity published in 1894, page 174.

    17. [S284] Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, ([place of publication not identified].: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1894), page 174.
      Iowa Wesleyan University (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa), Iowa Alpha Chapter, Class of 1878. "George Adolph Fiegenbaum, A.B. .... Phys. and Surg., 702 N. Sixteenth St., Omaha, Neb."

    18. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. NARA microfilm T9, roll 674, page 24D (image 0633).
      Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in July 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           Henry Fiegenbaum household, 1880 U.S. census, Buchanan County, Missouri, population schedule, St. Joseph, Supervisor’s District 70, Enumeration District 50, census page 4, enumerated 1 June 1880, 4th Street, dwelling 35, family 36, lines 39-45.
           The household consisted of: 1) Fiegenbaum, Henry; white; male; age 60; married; minister; born in Prussia; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 2) Fiegenbaum, Clara; white; female; age 56; wife; married; keeping house; born in Illinois; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 3) Fiegenbaum, Mary; white; female; 29; daughter; single; at home; born in Illinois; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic]. 4) Fiegenbaum, George; white; male; age 25; son; single; doctor; born in Illinois; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic]. 5) Fiegenbaum, Annie; white; female; age 23; daughter; single; at home; born in Illinois; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic]. 6) Fiegenbaum, Minnie; white; female; age 20; daughter; single; at home; born in Iowa; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic]. 7) Fiegenbaum, Lizzette; white; female; age 18; daughter; single; at home; born in Iowa; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia [sic].

    19. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 20, 51-52.
      George Adolph Fiegenbaum died on 27 April 1896 at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri.

    20. [S189] Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1917), page 205.
      George Adolph Fiegenbaum died in 1896 at St. Joseph, Missouri.

    21. [S22] Obituary, American Medico-Surgical Bulletin; a Weekly Journal of Practice and Science. Volume 9, Number 20 (May 16, 1896), page 681.
      "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum at the St. Joseph Hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., on April 29. He had been troubled for 18 months with stricture of the esophagus, and had gone to the hospital to undergo an operation. The post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that the esophagus and the trachea had a common opening. He was 41 years old."

    22. [S192] Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, ([place of publication not identified].: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1906), page 141.
      Iowa Wesleyan University (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa), Iowa Alpha Chapter, Class of 1878. "George Adolph Fiegenbaum, A.B., A.M., M.D., died 1896, St. Joseph, Mo."

    23. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), Obituary for Dr. George Fiegenbaum; pages 51-52.
      Transcription by Frances G. Leenerts; reported to have been published in the St. Joseph Daily News (St. Joseph, Missouri), Tuesday, 28 April 1896.

    24. [S211] Article or notice, The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 1 May 1896; page 4, columns 4-5.
      "Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum." Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1896-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           "...Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum, passed over the river into the great unknown beyond on Monday evening last, April 27, 1896, at the age of 41 years, his death occuring [sic] at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., from stricture of the esophagus."
           Compare this obituary with the biographical sketch of Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum published in History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc. (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 370. And also with an obituary published in the St. Joseph Daily News (St. Joseph, Missouri); Tuesday, 28 April 1896.

    25. [S211] Article or notice, "Dr. Fiegenbaum Dies"; 1896.
      World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska). Friday, 1 May 1896; Page 8, Column 2. Digital copy accessed in August 2014.
           "Dr. George Fiegenbaum, who died Monday in a hospital in St. Joseph of stricture of the aesophagus...." The death on Monday would have taken place on 27 April 1896.

    26. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), Obituary for Dr. George Fiegenbaum; pages 51-52.
      Transcription by Frances G. Leenerts; reported to have been published in the St. Joseph Daily News (St. Joseph, Missouri), Tuesday, 28 April 1896.
           "He is a son of the Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum of 1123 North Fifth Street and will be buried from the home of his parents at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon." "He will be buried at Ashland Cemetery in St. Joseph."

    27. [S211] Article or notice, The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 1 May 1896; page 4, columns 4-5.
      "Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum." Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at ( http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1896-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/ ) in November 2011.
           "Short funeral services were conducted from the family residence at 2 p. m. last Wednesday afternoon, by Rev. C. H. Harmes, pastor of the German M. E. church, St. Joseph, and by Elder J. Tanner, of Lincoln, Nebraska, a former pastor of the deceased, after which the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Ashland cemetery, St. Joseph, to await the final resurrection."

    28. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), NARA microfilm T9, roll 674, page 24D. Access through HeritageQuest Online July 2004.
      Henry Fugenbaum household, 1880 U.S. census, Buchanan County, Missouri, population schedule, St. Joseph, Supervisor’s District 70, Enumeration District 50, page 4, enumerated 1 June 1880, 4th Street, dwelling 35, family 36, lines 39-45. Henry and Clara Fugenbaum; married.

    29. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 16.
      Heinrich (Henry) Herman Fiegenbaum and Clara Katherine Kastenbudt were married on 11 April 1847 at St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.

    30. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 17.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an article covering the celebrations of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Henry and Clara (Kastenbudt) Fiegenbaum. Mrs. Leenerts reported that the article appeared in a St. Joseph, Missouri newspaper. The exact name and the date of publication were not provided; it appears to have been printed shortly after 12 April 1897.

    31. [S55] Jane M. (Fiegenbaum) Padget, Genealogical research.
      A photocopy of what appears to be a reprint of an obituary for Rev. Heinrich Fiegenbaum that had been published on 20 January 1905 in the Sentinel, of Oregon, Missouri.
           "On April 11th, 1847, Rev. Fiegenbaum and Miss Clara Kastenbudt were united in marriage in the city of St. Louis, and on Sunday, April 11th, 1897, in their home in St. Joseph, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary."

    32. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 17-18.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum which she reported had appeared on 14 January 1905 in the St. Joseph Gazette, of St. Joseph, Missouri.
           "He was married to Miss Clara Kastenbudt 11 April 1847. She died 2 September 1897."

    33. [S15] Certificate of Death, for Anna Julia Fiegenbaum; 26 September 1942.
      State of Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State. Missouri State Archives. Photocopy received from the Archives in June 2006. Digital copy (PDF file) from the Missouri Death Certificates Database. (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/). Accessed on 10 March 2008.
           Missouri State Board of Health, Standard Certificate of Death #33214. For Anna Julia Fiegenbaum. Born on 28 May 1857 at Galena, Illinois. Father's name: Henry Fiegenbaum; born at Ladberger [sic], Prussia. Mother's maiden name: Clara Kastenbudt; born at "UNKNOWN," Germany. Personal information was provided by "Bible Records."
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    34. [S15] Certificate of Death, for Anna Marie Fiegenbaum; 26 June 1937.
      State of Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State. Missouri State Archives. Photocopy received from the Archives in June 2006. Digital copy (PDF file) from the Missouri Death Certificates Database. (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/). Accessed in October 2007.
           Missouri State Board of Health, Certificate of Death #23244. For Anna Marie Fiegenbaum. Born on 3 September 1850 at Muscoota [sic], Illinois. Father's name: Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum; born at Ladburg [sic], Germany. Mother's maiden name: Catherine Kastenbudt; born at Nabuck [sic], Germany.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    35. [S211] Article or notice, "A Well Rounded Life." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 10 September 1897; Page 4, Column 4.
      Digital copy accessed through Chronicling America (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1897-09-10/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           Henry Fiegenbaum and Clara Kastenbudt were married on Sunday, 11 April 1847 at St. Louis.

    36. [S211] Article or notice, "Half A Century." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 16 April 1897; Page 4, Columns 3-4.
      Digital copy accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1897-04-16/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           Article on the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Henry and Clara (Kastenbudt) Fiegenbaum celebrated at St. Joseph, Missouri.
           "Sunday, April 11, 1847, found the bridal party in the house of God in St. Louis, Mo., and at the close of the sermon the minister, Rev. Casper Yost, called forward the young couple [Henry Fiegenbaum and Clara Kastenbudt] who wished to be joined in holy matrimony and then and there pronounced them husband and wife."
           "...where in 1846 she [Clara Kastenbudt] united with the German M. E. church, and it was then and there that these two hearts met and in the same church where each were converted and joined that the marriage ceremoney [sic] was performed, Sunday, April 11, 1847, that made them one for life...."

    37. [S181] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1171 in November 2017), St. Louis marriages, 1847; volume 3, page 387.
      Digital image 6 (Index for Marriages, 1806-1854) and image 49 of 141 total images. Accessed in January 2011.
           At the bottom of page 387 of volume 3 is a list of four marriages returned by "C. Jose [sic] Pastor of the St. Louis German Station, Meth. E. Church" on 25 May 1847 and filed on 31 May 1847: 1. On the 4th day of March 1847 -- Charles Fiele with Marie Kleinstadt. 2. On the 4th day of April 1847 -- John Alt with Catherine Wag--- [end of name is obscured]. 3. On the 11th day of April 1847 -- Henry Fiegenbaum with Clara Kastenbutz [sic]. 4. On the 18th day of May 1847 -- Jacob Siesval[d?] with [G?]egina E[?]selink--- [end of name is obscured]. All parties were residents of St. Louis.
           The index for this record (see image 6, page: Fid, entry #4) shows Clara's surname as "Kustenbutz," but this is a mis-reading of the record (see image 49).
           According to later accounts, Henry and Clara were married at the end of a regular Sunday church service. Judging from the dates of these four marriages, it would appear that Rev. Kasper Jost was in the habit of performing weddings in this manner.

    38. [S187] Otto E. Kriege, Gustav Becker, Matthäus Herrmann and C. L. Körner, Souvenir der West Deutschen Konferenz der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche ([place of publication not identified]: the Conference, 1906), pages 236-237.
      Biographical sketch of Heinrich Fiegenbaum. "Er stand 41 Jahre ununterbrochen in den aktiven Reihen und bediente folgende Gemeinden: Mascoutah, Ill., 1848 to 1850; Muscatine, Iowa, 1850-52; Galena, Ill., 1852-54; Iowa District 1854-1860; Burlingtion-Distrikt 1860-64; ...." [He stood for 41 uninterrupted years in the active ranks and served the following congregations: Mascoutah, Ill., 1848 to 1850; Muscatine, Iowa, 1850-52; Galena, Ill.,1852-54; Iowa District 1854-1860; Burlington District 1860-64; ....].

    39. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865. "Henry Feigenbaum".
      Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Accessed on 18 April 2011. Original data: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. ARC Identifies: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 3 of 3. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
           1st Congressional District, Iowa; Schedule 2 - persons of Class 2 - No. [74?]; enumerated in June 1863; Robert B. Rutledge, Provost Marshal. Line 9: Henry "Figenbaum" [not "Feigenbaum" as reported in the Ancestry.com index]; resident of Louisa County; age 43 (on 1 July 1863); white; minister; born in Germany.
           Marital status was not mentioned for any of the enumerated names. From other data, Henry would have been 41 years old on 1 July 1863; not 43 as reported in the enumeration.

    40. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 51.
      George Adolph Fiegenbaum and Anna Birdsall Bradrick were married on 20 October 1850 in Henry County, Iowa.

    41. [S189] Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Alumnal Association of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1917), pages 200, 205.
      "George Adolph Fiegenbaum" and "Anna Birdsall Bradrick" were married on October 20, 1880 at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. There children were: Henry Allen Ernest, born January 19, 1882; Helen Mary, born July 30, 1889; Clara Marguerite, born June 1, 1893.

    42. [S104] Personal communication, 23 July 2008. Digital image from Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard.
      My transcription from a digital image of an unidentified and undated newspaper clipping commemorating the 75th birthday of Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick in 1904.
           "Mrs Bradrick is the mother of five children, four of whom are living....
           "Anna Birdsall married Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum, a very eminent physician of St. Joseph, Mo., in 1880."

    43. [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 370.
      Biographical sketch of "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M."
           "He [George Adolph Fiegenbaum] was married in October, 1880, to Miss Anna B. Brodick [sic], daughter of the Rev. I. A. Brodick [sic], of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa."

    44. [S211] Article or notice, Western Christian Advocate, Wednesday, 22 December 1880.
      Volume 47, issue 51; page 408, column 4. Accessed in December 2009 through ProQuest: American Periodical Series. Document ID 808801912. ( http://proquest.com/ ).
           Notice of the marriage on 20 October 1880 of Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum and Miss Anna B. Bradrick at Mt Pleasant, Iowa. George A. Fiegenbaum was the son of "Rev. --- Fiegenbaum, presiding elder of St. Joseph District (German), Methodist Episcopal Church..." Anna B. Bradrick was the daughter of "Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of the Iowa Conference;" the father officiated at the wedding.

    45. [S211] Article or notice, "Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 1 May 1896; Page 4, Columns 4-5.
      Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1896-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           "He was married in October 1880, to Miss Anna B. Bradrick, a daughter of Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and by this union three children were born, two now living, aged seven and three years respectively, who with their mother survive. In our half century journey on this earth, never have we seen a husband and wife live so devotedly for each other as the deceased and his now broken hearted wife. Love was supreme with them, hence their home was what 'two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one,' could possibly make it here on this earth."

    46. [S279] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940 (formerly titled Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937) (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8823 in December 2017), Fiegenbaum-McKee 1880.
      Accessed in May 2016. Original data from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922 (textual records); Iowa State Archives; Des Moines, Iowa; Volume: 302 (Dubuque-Henry). The following data has been taken from relevant portions of a digital image of the source.
           Return of marriages in the County of Henry for the year ending 1 October 11. The transcription of the marriage records compiled in this volume was certified by W. L. Andrews, Clerk District and Circuit Courts (W. E. Wells, Deputy), on 1 November 1881.
           Number of license: [no entry]. Date of License: [no entry]. Who made Affidavit: [no entry]. Who gave consent to marriage: [no entry]. Groom's name: George A. Fiegenbaum. Groom's place of residence: Oregon, Missouri. Groom's occupation: Physician & Surgeon. Groom's age at NEXT birthday: 26. Groom's race or color: German. Groom's birth place: Galena, Illinois. Groom's father's name: Henry Fiegenbaum. Groom's mother's maiden name: Clara Kastenbutt [sic]. Number of Groom's marriage: first. Bride's name: Anna B. Bradrick. Bride's maiden name if a widow: [no entry]. Bride's residence: Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Bride's age at NEXT birthday: 25. Bride's race or color: American. Bride's birth place: Lima, Ohio. Bride's father's name: I. A. Bradrick. Bride's mother's full maiden name: Mary Rankin. Number of Bride's marriage: first. When and where married: I. A. Bradrick; 20 October 1880. Witnesses: I. A. Bradrick, Mary B. [sic] Bradrick. By whom married: I. A. Bradrick, M.G. [minister of the Gospel]. Date of return: 22 January 1881. When registered: [no entry].

    47. [S211] Article or notice, "A Baby Party." 1890.
      World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska). Thursday, 31 July 1890; Page 2, Column 4. Digital copy accessed in August 2014.
           "Helen Fiegenbaum is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Fiegenbaum of 1438 North Sixteenth street. Yesterday was her first birthday, and the anniversary was duly observed with all fitting pomp and circumstances...."

    48. [S211] Article or notice, "Dr. Fiegenbaum Dies"; 1896.
      World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska). Friday, 1 May 1896; Page 8, Column 2. Digital copy accessed in August 2014.
           "Dr. George Fiegenbaum...lived in Omaha between Chicago and Davenport.... He was of a retiring disposition and, while a man of ability, did not do well here, and left Omaha for Oklahoma, where he resided until illness overtook him and he went to Chicago for the operation, then to St. Joseph."

    49. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), Obituary for Dr. George Fiegenbaum; pages 51-52.
      Transcription by Frances G. Leenerts; reported to have been published in the St. Joseph Daily News (St. Joseph, Missouri), Tuesday, 28 April 1896.
           "He has been practicing during the last fifteen years, lately at Oklahoma City, where he located several years ago."

    50. [S211] Article or notice, "Personals." Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 6 December 1895; page 4, column 7.
      Digital copy (PDF) accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1895-12-06/ed-1/seq-4/) in November 2011.
           "Mrs. Min [sic] Curry left Thursday for Oklahoma City, called there by the serious illness of her brother, Dr. George Fiegenbaum. We trust he may be found better on her arrival at his bedside."

    51. [S211] Article or notice, The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 20 September 1895; page 1, column 7.
      Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1895-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/) in December 2011.
           "Mrs. Bird Fiegenbaum, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, accompanied by her children, Helen and Clara, are here, visiting relatives and numerous friends. She is on her way home from Chicago, where she had been visiting with her parents and husband, Dr. G. A. Fiegenbaum, who has been there for the past seven weeks, taking treatment for a throat trouble. We are glad to inform his many friends in this county, that he has so far recovered as to be out of danger, and has been discharged by his doctor as cured. He left St. Joseph last Monday for his Oklahoma home."


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