AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT

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FATHER

Andreas Groeninger

MOTHER

Elizabeth Hornberger

WIFE

Johanna Simnesmeyer

CHILDREN

1.  Anton Groeninger
    b. abt 1859 IN
    d. after 1883
    Listed in 1875-1883 city directories as blacksmith or machinist at same address as his father, Andrew Groeninger.

2. Christina (Justina) Groeninger b. 1860

3. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Groeninger b. 1862

4. Margaret (Maggie) Groeninger b. 1864

5. Jacob Groeninger b. 1866

6. Henry Groeninger b. About 1870

7. Mathilda J (Tillie) Groeninger b. about 1871

8. Andrew J Groeninger
   b. 18 Feb 1875
   d. 08 Oct 1903
   Andrew was a machinist and died unmarried at the age of 28.
   He and his brother Fred were in partnership running a saloon in 1901-1903.

9. Catharina Groeninger
    b. 08 Aug 1878
    d. 10 Sep 1880

Biography of Andrew Groeninger
by Susan Brooke
April 2015

Andrew Groeninger married when he was twenty-six.  Four years later he enlisted as a private in the Civil War.  He was drafted to Company E, Indiana 22nd Infantry Regiment on Nov 18, 1864.  He had four young children at home.  Andrew must have been wounded in the war because he received a pension as an "invalid" starting in July 1879.

He had come home from the war in 1865 and is listed as a blacksmith in the 1866 City Directory at the same address as his mother, Elizabeth.    When he died in 1883, his pension went to his wife, Johanna.  She died four years later in 1887 leaving four minor children.  Philip Best was named the guardian of these children.  He had married Andrew's daughter, Margaret Groeninger, in 1885.  Philip Best had a grocery store and saloon and the children helped with the business. Philip and Margaret never had any children of their own.

In 1900 two of these children, Henry and Andrew, went into partnership.  They ran a saloon at 226 W Maryland in 1900 and 1901.  The saloon failed when Andrew died in 1903.

Andrew and Johanna had at least nine children.  The oldest, Anton, disappeared from the records in his early 20's.  The youngest child, Catherine, died at the age of two.  Of the other seven children, the four daughters all married but three did not have children (Elizabeth, Maggie and Tillie).  Christina had four children.  Andrew died young and never married.  Henry was married twice and had a daughter with his second wife. Jacob had at least one child.