AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT

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FATHER

Andrew Groeninger

MOTHER

Johanna Simnesmeyer

 WIFE

1. Emma Huschlor
    b. about 1876
    Emma and Henry seem to have separated around 1894. 
    Emma is listed as either a warper or a spooler living alone from 1894-1900
    About 1900 an Emma Groeninger married Charles Brown
    In the 1930 census this Emma says she was first married at age 17 which would have been about 1892
              In the same census Charles says he was 24 at his first marriage which would have been about 1900.

2, Margaret (Maggie) Engle
   b. about 1877
   Maggie appears in the city directories living with Henry  until about 1915.  After that she and her daughter are sometimes listed at a different address from Henry.

CHILDREN

1. Leona Groeninger
    b. 27 March 1902  birth record says father is Henry.
    In the 1917 city directory Leona is a cigar maker living at 1025 W Michigan.
    Leona married James Edward Davis

Biography of Henry Groeninger
by Susan Brooke
April 2015

Henry was still a teenager when his parents died.  After that he lived at the same address as his guardian, Philip Best.  When he was about 22 he married Emma Huschlor and worked as a molder.  He then is at the same address for two years, but in 1894 he moves to a different address and Emma is not living with him.  She is listed as either a warper or spooler. living alone, from 1894-1900.  Around 1900 she married Charles Brown.

At about the same time Henry went into partnership with his brother Andrew running a saloon.  But Andrew died in 1903 and Henry went back to being a molder.  He married Maggie Engle in 1904, but their daughter Leona was born in 1902.  He is sometimes listed as living with Maggie through 1915.  In the 1920 city directory Henry and Maggie are listed together at 506 S 6th, but the 1920 census lists Maggie living with her mother at 1025 Michigan. In 1933 she is listed as Marg. widow of Henry, spooler, r. 2125 W. .

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