Fridolin Schmid, 18351929 (aged 94 years)

Name
Fridolin /Schmid/
Given names
Fridolin
Surname
Schmid
Name
Fred /Smith/
Given names
Fred
Surname
Smith
Text:

Fridolin Schmid's name became Americanized as Fred Smith and this is how it is shown in the 1880 US census.

Birth
Text:

Date same on S.Fam. Tree

Birth of a sister
Text:

Date:28 Aug 1838 according to Schmid Family Tree

Birth of a sister
Text:

Date same as on Schmid Fam. Tree

Birth of a brother
Text:

Date same as on Schmid Fam. Tree

Birth of a sister
Text:

Date same on Schmid Fam. Tree

Death of a mother
July 8, 1847 (aged 12 years)
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
April 13, 1851 (aged 16 years)
Death of a sister
Birth of a sister
Text:

Date: 11 Aug 1853 according to Schmid Fam. Tree

Death of a maternal grandfather
August 31, 1853 (aged 18 years)
Death of a sister
Text:

Same on Schmid Fam. Tree

Note: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=700137232437&lds=1&re…

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=700137232437&lds=1&region=8&frompage=99

Death of a paternal grandmother
May 8, 1854 (aged 19 years)
Citation details: Band 1, 339, #2150
Immigration from Germany
1855 (aged 19 years)
USA
Text:

He immigrated from Germany in 1855 and hopped off the boat on the Keweenaw Penninsula of Upper Michigan, known as "Copper Country." This was an area rich in mining and a tough life for those settling in this part of the very northern USA.

requested to emigrate to the USA
January 28, 1855 (aged 19 years)
Citation details: beantragt am 28.1.1855 nach USA auszuwandern
Text:

Band 2, 201

Death of a maternal grandmother
December 29, 1857 (aged 22 years)
Death of a sister
Text:

Date: 25 Jul 1867 according to Schmid Fam. Tree

INDI:MARR
June 23, 1870 (aged 35 years)
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: Band 2, 201, #4328
Death of a sister
Citation details: Band 2, 201, #4328
Death of a brother
Death of a father
March 20, 1885 (aged 50 years)
Death of a brother
1894 (aged 58 years)
Death of a sister
1903 (aged 67 years)
Death of a brother
April 21, 1907 (aged 72 years)
Text:

Band 2, 201, #4328

Number of children
8
Death
Burial
Family with parents
father
18041885
Birth: June 8, 1804 34 32 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: March 20, 1885
mother
18121847
Birth: August 21, 1812 42 27 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: July 8, 1847
elder brother
3 years
himself
18351929
Birth: March 7, 1835 30 22 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: April 30, 1929Houghton, Michigan, USA
17 months
younger sister
18361867
Birth: July 28, 1836 32 23 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: December 25, 1867
17 months
younger sister
18381878
Birth: January 1, 1838 33 25 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: February 13, 1878
17 months
younger brother
18391907
Birth: May 11, 1839 34 26 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: April 21, 1907
16 months
younger sister
18401903
Birth: August 22, 1840 36 28 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: 1903
8 years
younger brother
3 years
younger sister
18511851
Birth: April 13, 1851 46 38
Death: September 8, 1851
2 years
younger sister
18531853
Birth: July 14, 1853 49 40 Goerwihl, Hotzenwald, Baden
Death: September 8, 1853
Birth
Text:

Date same on S.Fam. Tree

Immigration from Germany
Text:

He immigrated from Germany in 1855 and hopped off the boat on the Keweenaw Penninsula of Upper Michigan, known as "Copper Country." This was an area rich in mining and a tough life for those settling in this part of the very northern USA.

requested to emigrate to the USA
Citation details: beantragt am 28.1.1855 nach USA auszuwandern
Text:

Band 2, 201

INDI:MARR
Number of children
Name
Text:

Fridolin Schmid's name became Americanized as Fred Smith and this is how it is shown in the 1880 US census.

Death
Note
Note

Married and went to America.
Verheiratet und ging nach Amerika.

Note

He became a superintendent of mines and was the superintendent of the Wolverine and Mohawk mines. The old family home at the Wolverine mine location is now a bed and breakfast lodging. One of his niece's also at some point immigrated and lived with him at this home.