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Fischer Family

Fischer Family . The American Connection. Andrew from Switzerland Mina from Germany Coming to America. Switzerland . Andrew immigrated to America from Mieringen, Switzerland.

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Fischer Family

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  1. Fischer Family The American Connection • Andrew from Switzerland • Mina from Germany • Coming to America

  2. Switzerland • Andrew immigrated to America from Mieringen, Switzerland. Andrew grew up on a small family dairy farm on the outskirts of Mieringen, Switzerland, similar to the farm pictured here. The farm was small. At one point the family lived on the second floor of the barn with the farm animals below in the winter months. We know that he had two younger brothers Mike and Hans and at least two sisters Madelyn and Johanna. Andrew immigrated to America first. From what we can determine, Andrew came over before 1900. Hans followed in 1907 according to our Ellis Island research. Mike visited his brothers in America several times but remained a resident of Switzerland where his descendents still live today. Madelyn and Johanna came to America and settled in Lancaster county Pennsylvania. Home

  3. Germany • Mina was raised in Kreis Creilsheim , Germany, near Stuttgart. We know that her father was a burgmeister, tax collector. She had at least two brothers Adolf and Dale and several sisters Anna and Kathryn. • Mina was good at sewing and embroidery. We still have samples of her work done as a girl of 10 years. • Mina came to America as a governess for a German family sometime before 1902. Because she traveled as a governess we can find no record of her going thru Ellis Island. • Her brothers both immigrated to the America. Adolf was a baker aboard a German ocean liner. His base was New York City, but he made many trans- Atlantic trips. By his request, when he died he was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by his sister on her next trip to Germany. • Anna immigrated to America and lived in New York City until her death in the 1930’s. Kathryn married and remained in Germany. Kathryn married a Lutheran minister named Heinle who was put in a concentration camp during WWII. Kathryn had two girls Susie and Barbie and one son Uhlie. Uhlie still lives in Munich. • During WWII, Mina would send care packages to Germany containing sugar and other commodities that Kathryn could not get. Home

  4. Coming to America • Andrew came first before 1900. We can not find his Ellis Island records. He worked as a house painter, a milkman, and ran a laundry. He was a member of a German heritage club . He won a woman’ jewelry box at a raffle. The ornately carved box that he gave to Mina is still in the family today. • Mina came to America as a governess for a well to do German family sometime before 1902. By 1902 she had met Andrew. They were married in the little Lutheran Church around the corner from Wall Street. They had their small wedding dinner in a small Italian restaurant nearby the church. • They lived in an apartment building on 142nd Street for a long time. They helped supervise the building for reduced rent. • They had three children: Alfred born 1904; Walter born 1910; and Irma born 1917. Home

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