Biographical Notes |
Note: Juhling McClung noted that Kate Heslop refused to speak English, which is strange if she had been born in Ohio. I expect that she was born in Germany and may have come to the U.S. as a servant. If this conjecture is so, then she probably worked for a German family in Ohio. In the 1880 census for Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, there was a Kate "Gersman" who was a domestic servant from Hanover to the Barney and Agnes Bunke Strotkamp family, who were also from Hanover. There were also three other servants or laborers from Hanover to support this family.
At this stage this scenaro is conjecture.
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