Johann Adam Dieterle (1830 - 1904)

Ancestors Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Name 1.3 Haplogroup 1.4 Migration 1.5 Marriage 1.6 Children 1.7 Residence 1.8 Death 2 Sources 2.1 Footnotes 2.2 Bibliography

Biography

Birth

Johann Adam Dieterle was born in Pfalzgrafenweiler, Freudenstadt, Kingdom of Württemberg at 7 a.m. on 30 June 1830. He was baptized the next day with Johann Adam Widmaier and Katharina Wolfer as witnesses.^[1]

Name

His anglicized name was "John Adam Dieterle".

Haplogroup

His paternal haplogroup was E-L677, as determined from the genetic analysis of his descendant Richard L. Dieterle. E-L677 is also designated E-V22, of which it is said: "E-V22 is found primarily in western Ethiopia, northern Egypt and in the southern Levant. In Europe it is therefore associated with the Phoenicians and the Jews. The Phoenicians could have disseminated E-V22 to Sicily, Sardinia, southern Spain and the Maghreb, and the Jews to Greece and mainland Italy and Spain."^[2] The founding of this haplogroup dates to about 11,000 years ago.^[3]

Migration

Perhaps due to a schism in the Church at Pfalzgrafenweiler, a number of families found the opportunities opening in the American state of Michigan to be appealing. A small band of young people left in early March of 1851 from the small town of Pfalzgrafenweiler. The three intrepid travelers set out for new lands. Of the three, the oldest was Johann Adam Dieterle, who was almost 21. Christiana Maier went ahead of her family, who followed her almost exactly a year later. Their friend and neighbor, David Schaible Jr., was only 18. They were cleared to leave early in March, so they likely took the train to the French port of Le Havre, since they must have left for New York around the thirteenth of that month.^[4] There they secured passage, along with many others from southern Germany and Switzerland,^[5] on the American packet ship, the Zurich.^[6] The Zurich, being a relatively new and fast ship (built in ’44), got to New York City on 24 April 1851.

Dieterle, Maier and Schaible on the Zurich, 24 April 1851

As they lined up to be signed off on the ship's manifest, Adam was followed by two young women, then Christiana, and right behind her was their friend and neighbor David Schaible. At some point, they all set off for Michigan. David went on to become a Civil War hero in the 12th Michigan Infantry. Not too long after they landed, within the year, Christiana and Adam had married, and they soon established themselves in the city of Ann Arbor, where they lived the rest of their lives.

Marriage

Johann married Christiana Maier in 1851.^[7]

Children

Johann and Christiana had the following children:

Name	Dates	Notes
Gottfried (Godfrey)	24 Aug 1854 - 22 Sep 1931	He married Louisa Younghans on 25 Aug 1886 in Manchester, Michigan. They had one child, Don E. Dieterle.
William George	23 Sep 1856 - 13 May 1930	He married Christina Keck.
Henry	5 Nov 1858 - 7 May 1936	He married Eva M. Stires in 1885.
Ernest Adam	8 Sep 1860 - 24 Jan 1929	He married Lydia Rauschenberger (1856–1935).
Dr. John Henry Ferdinand	11 Jan 1862 - 22 May 1921	He married Ella Mary Dachler. They had a son Dr. Herbert D. (1894 - 26 Feb 1920).
Enoch	30 Mar 1865 - 4 Aug 1929	He married Lydia Katharina Fiegel (1866–1957). He ran a a funeral home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Simon Gerhardt	16 May 1869 - 3 Apr 1929	In 1894 he married Emilie C. Gwinner (1866–1947). They were the parents of Dr. Robert Dieterle.
August Albert	18 Aug 1871 - 29 Jul 1943	Married Anna “Nan” Heffernan (24 Oct 1870 - 4 May 1937).
Dr. Anna	1 May 1875 - 13 May 1930	Dr. Anna Dieterle was the first female dentist in Ann Arbor.

Residence

1868 — "Dieterle, Adam — cooper shop on the corner of Liberty and First, residence the same."^[8]

Death

He died on 3 September 1904 (aged 74) in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, and was buried at Bethlehem Cemetery-Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Block 1 lot 137.^[9]

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ecclesiastical Register, vol. A, p. 35. Baptismal Register Pfalzgrafenweiler fol. 30, entry 39.
2. ↑ Hay, "Haplogroup E1b1b" (May, 2018).
3. ↑ 23andme, "Paternal Haplogroup".
4. ↑ The crossing from France to the United States typically took about 6 weeks.
5. ↑ Zurich, Manifest page 5. The manifest lumps together all the Swabians as being from Baden, no doubt because it is easier to spell than "Wuerttemberg".
6. ↑ The primary function of the Zurich was to haul mail back and forth between the United States and Continental Europe, but it was also equipt to carry about 300 passengers. The Zurich's manifest (p. 7) shows that it had 291 passengers when it arrived in New York on 24 April 1851.
7. ↑ 1900 Federal Census which states that they had been married for 49 years. The manifest of the ship Zurich shows that they arrived in country in April 1851, and were at that time unmarried, both being slightly underage.
8. ↑ Ann Arbor Directory.
9. ↑ Death Certificate; Find a Grave, Memorial no. 108339076.

Bibliography

• Maciamo Hay, "Haplogroup E1b1b" (May, 2018), < "Origins, spread and ethnic association of European haplogroups and subclades" < "European Prehistory, Anthropology & Genetics" < Eupedia.
• 23andme, "Paternal Haplogroup".
• The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index (Arrival from Pfalzgrafinweiler to N. America, June 1854).
• 1868 Ann Arbor Directory.
• Ecclesiastical Family Register of the Protestant Parish of Pfalzgrafenweiler, volume A, page 35. Information obtained by Friedrich R. Wollmershäuser, Genealogist in Southwest Germany, 1981-1982.
• Baptismal Register for Pfalzgrafenweiler, fol. 30, entry 39. Herzogsweiler > Taufen, Heiraten u Tote 1645-1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1500-1985. Various sources.
• 1860 Federal Census for Ann Arbor Ward 2, Washtenaw, Michigan; Page: 554; Family History Library Film: 803563. 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• 1870 Federal Census for Ann Arbor, Ward 2, Washtenaw, Michigan; Roll: M593_707; Page: 47A. 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• 1880 Federal Census for Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan; Roll: 608; Page: 41A; Enumeration District: 223, 1st and 2nd Wards, Ann Arbor City. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• 1900 Federal Census for Ann Arbor Ward 2, Washtenaw, Michigan; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0085; FHL microfilm: 1240746. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
• Death Certificate for Christiana Dieterle, State of Michigan, Dept. of Vital Statistics, 6 June 1917, register #208, certificate #586.
• Death Certificate for John Adam Dieterle, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for Johann Adam Dieterle (Jun 1830–3 Sep 1904), Find a Grave Memorial no. 108339076, citing Bethlehem Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by M_artin S_chauder (contributor 47780256).