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  Ferdinand BENZ, 1855-
Tannery worker
Edward Benz's uncle

4 APR 1855 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kr Greifenberg, Pommern at 7:30 AM
and baptized there. Godparents were August Pagel, Büdnersohn from Gützlaffshagen, Ferdinand Schwanz, Knecht from Gützlaffshagen and Sohhie Arndt (Mrs Schwanz) from Gützlaffshagen ; Brother Wilhelm BENZ born there

6 JUN 1855 - Brother Wilhelm BENZ died there

3 APR 1857, age 1 - Grandmother Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there

7 JUL 1858, age 3 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there

29 JAN 1861, age 5 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there

25 SEP 1864, age 9 - Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there

18 MAR 1865, age 9 - Grandfather Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there

24 JAN 1871, age 15 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there

30 APR 1872, age 17 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.

16 MAY 1872, age 17 - Immigrated at New York, New York

3 SEP 1876, age 21 - Wedding attendant when brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee Cty, Wisconsin

1880, age 24 - Recorded in the Federal census there

Sometime after 1880 - Father Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A.

20 NOV 1881, age 26 - Wedding attendant when sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee

25 MAY 1883, age 28 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, age 24, died there of tuberculosis

8 MAR 1887, age 31 - Godparent when Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ baptized at Saint Marcus Gemeinde Ev Luth there

28 APR 1901, age 46 - Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, age 72, died there of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility

9 DEC 1914, age 59 - Sister-in-law Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, age 57, died at 970 Holton St there of exophthalimic goiter

21 JAN 1917, age 61 - Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 63, died there