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Choose a name to meet someone from the Baumann family. Each connection here is supported by the cited baptism records.
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Unterampfrach, Bavaria
The entry describes him as his parents’ third child and third son. His baptism sponsor was Georg Friedrich Groß—his mother’s unmarried brother.
Small details like these turn a name on a chart into a family with relationships, routines, and a place in the world.
Baptism register, 1862, p. 275, entry 19. See the source →
Unterampfrach, Bavaria
The register calls Georg Friedrich the sixth child of Georg Michael, a smallholding householder, and Maria Katharina. The birth time is recorded as between five and six in the evening.
His 1859 marriage record names the same parents, adding another piece of evidence to the family connection.
Baptism register, 1831, p. 96, entry 37; marriage register, 1859, p. 563, entry 13. See the sources →
Unterampfrach, Bavaria
His baptism places this part of the family in Unterampfrach more than sixty years before Georg Wilhelm’s birth.
A later note in the record gives a death date that differs from an online-tree date. That discrepancy stays in the research notes until the burial register can resolve it.
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On 17 May, Johannes Riedesel married Anna Margaretha Müsse. The brief entry identifies her as being of Elsoff: a specific place to follow the family’s earlier story.
The entry supports the marriage and her association with Elsoff. It names no parents and does not prove that she was born there. Her baptism remains a research question.
Girkhausen, KB EKvW 5187, Wunderthausen marriages, image 102, right-hand page, second entry under 1734.
Source details →Georg Wilhelm’s baptism records more than his name. We learn his birth hour, his place among his siblings, and that his mother’s brother was his sponsor.
The automatic transcription misread the day numbers. Checking the handwriting recovered a birth on 9 July and a baptism on 13 July—details that a copied transcription could get wrong.
Unterampfrach, Taufen 1847–1872, p. 275, entry 19, image 143.
Meet Georg Wilhelm →A trade journal brings the Miller family’s electricity venture into focus. January news reports a Clermont franchise; July notices follow developments in Ossian and Calmar, Iowa.
Electrical World reports that Calmar voters granted a franchise on 7 July. These notices establish plans and approvals; they do not establish the date electricity service began.
The firm’s connection to the family is supported by the 1910 Miller biographies. The trade notices themselves name the company, not individual sons.
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A short notice in an industry journal can add something a census never could: what a family was trying to build. A useful family history helps you see the discovery and trace where it came from.
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Research question: What do contemporary reports establish about C. Miller & Son’s electricity venture in 1910?
Three trade-journal notices add dated milestones to the venture described in the Miller family biographies. They document a Clermont franchise and turbine plans in January, followed by franchise news for Ossian and Calmar in July.
What remains open: A franchise is an authorization, not proof of completed installation or the first day of service. No operating date is claimed from these notices.
This gives the family’s business story a timeline supported by reporting from the period. The notices name the firm; connecting it to Christian and John Frederick Miller also relies on the family biographies in the 1910 Fayette County history.
Look for commissioning or first-current announcements after July 1910, and compare them with Calmar and Ossian council minutes.
[1] Electrical World, vol. 55, 27 January 1910, printed p. 251, “Trump Turbines” notice. Internet Archive, volume 55.
[2] Electrical World, vol. 56, 7 and 14 July 1910, bound-volume PDF pages 91 and 147; Ossian and Calmar notices. The printed name varies between “Son” and “Sons.” Internet Archive, volume 56.
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Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Bayern, Unterampfrach baptism registers: 1798, entry 8, image 218; Taufen 1825–1846, p. 96, entry 37, image 76; and Taufen 1847–1872, signature 9.5.0001 – 042 – 09, p. 275, entry 19, image 143.
The 1831 entry names Georg Michael as Georg Friedrich’s father. The 1862 entry names Georg Friedrich as Georg Wilhelm’s father. These support the connections shown here. The 1798 birth entry identifies the earliest person in this sample.
Original records inspected in the family projectSame Bavarian archive, Unterampfrach, Trauungen 1807–1859, p. 563, entry 13, image 296. Marriage of Georg Friedrich Baumann and Maria Margaretha Groß, 11 December 1859.
The entry names the groom’s parents, Georg Michael Baumann and Maria Katharina née Emmert, supporting the connection recorded in his baptism.
Marriage register on Archion ↗Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen, Kirchenkreis Wittgenstein, Girkhausen, KB EKvW 5187, Wunderthausen marriages 1678–1737; Archion volume 144137, image 102, right-hand page, second entry under 1734.
Supports the 17 May marriage and the bride’s association with Elsoff. It supplies no parent names. Her surname appears in a feminine form, read as Müsinn.
Marriage record on Archion ↗Electrical World, vol. 55, 27 January 1910, p. 251; vol. 56, 7 and 14 July 1910, bound-volume PDF pages 91 and 147. Contemporary reporting on the Clermont, Ossian, and Calmar franchises.
Supports plans and franchise approvals. The firm's family connection is correlated with the Christian and John Miller biographies in the 1910 Fayette County history, vol. 1, pp. 576–580, and vol. 2, pp. 1183–1184. The notices do not establish when power service started.
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