HUEBNER family, with emphasis on Manitowoc. Other Manitowoc names are Dicke, Hanson, Lemkuhl, Kerscher, Pautz, Sorge, and Tomaschefsky. This material was distilled, March 16, 2001, from an ongoing Huebner family history that summarizes personal, church, and government documents, verbal history, information available at www.2manitowoc.com, Federal and Wisconsin State Census records, and information available through the LDS Family History Centers. The names of living people have been omitted from the document prepared for the web site. Extensive references, additional information, and discussions of conflicting information are available from J. Stephen Huebner (history@huebners.com).
Andreas Huebner (born about 1764) was abandoned as an infant, taken to Memel, East Prussia (now located in Lithuania), by a soldier named Huebner, and raised in the soldier's family. In Wisconsin, Andreas' descendants knew him as Ludwig Huebner. Andreas married Eleonore Dorothie Buettner[in] (born about 1768) on October 1, 1800 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia). Two children are known:
Frederick Wilhelm Huebner (see below).
Anna Louise Charlotte Huebner, born August 11, 1812 at Ginnischken, East Prussia (located today in the Kaliningrad Oblast). Anna Louise gave birth to Charlotte Huebner, out of wedlock, February 6, 1842, at old Ginnischken, and Charlotte was baptized at Kaukehmen, East Prussia, February 8, 1842. Mother and daughter are mentioned in a foundation for an emigration consent, prepared March 18, 1847, that also mentions Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner's six Prussian-born children. Nothing more is known about Anna Louise and her daughter Charlotte.Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner (born January 6, 1809 in East Prussia), a forester with a collegiate education and a shoemaker, first married Wilhelmine Bremer. Her fate is unknown. There were two children of this marriage who are mentioned in the foundation for an emigration consent:
Heinriette Amalie Huebner, born August 9, 1833 in Ginnischken, East Prussia. She was known as Mollie in Manitowoc village in 1850 and later as Amelia. She died in 1870 in Manitowoc.
Johanne Fredericke Huebner (born September 17, 1834) at Ginnischken. She emigrated to Manitowoc by 1850, where she was sometimes known as Hannah. Johanne married Franz C. Sorge in 1859 in Racine, Wisconsin. (Franz was a maker and dealer of sleighs and wagons who settled in Manitowoc in 1863.) There were four sons, including William (1860-1883), Frederick C. (1866-1946, who married Anna Ulovitz and had five children), and Amelia M. (1864-1941, who married H. August W. Ottelein and had seven children). Johanne's marriage did not last; Franz Sorge married Henrietta Hintz in 1873 and had three more children. Johanne died March 12, 1919, in Manitowoc.Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner next married Julianne Lessing (born March 4, 1810) in 1837. Probably about 1840-45 he started to be influenced by the ideas of Louis Kossuth and perhaps of Carl Schurz. Friedrich Wilhelm was imprisoned and sentenced to death for being too vocal about these ideas. He escaped and secretly made his way to New York by way of Königsberg, perhaps in 1845, but more likely 1846 or early 1847. Julianne left before March 18, 1847, either accompanying her husband or following shortly after he departed, leaving behind the two children from Friedrich Wilhelm's first marriage and four children by the second marriage. Five or six children left East Prussia after March 18, 1847, and five were living in Manitowoc in 1850. The four children of the second marriage are:
Julianne Wilhelmine Huebner (born November 4, 1838 at Ginnischken) was known as 'Mina' in Manitowoc town, 1850, and as Wilhelmine in 1860. She died February 14, 1863.
Sophie Fredericke Huebner (born February 4, 1841 at Ginnischken) lived in Manitowoc town by 1850, married Frederick Pautz on November 25, 1861, and died February 2, 1865.
Emilie Heinriette Huebner (born June 15, 1843 at Ginnischken) was known as Heinrietta in Manitowoc town in 1850, as Emilie in 1853, and as Amelia in 1860. She married her deceased sister's husband, Fred Pautz, on May 13, 1865 and died in 1883. There were 10 children including Lydia, Henry, Arthur, Richard, Willie, and perhaps Esther and Martha. Richard (1878-1963) married Elizabeth Herzog Kleinbauer on April 18, 1916 at Kenosha. There was one daughter (and one granddaughter). In 1948, Richard's son farmed part of section 5 that was originally owned by the senior Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner.
Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner (born January 6, 1846 at Ginnischken) was living on March 18, 1847; nothing more is known.Friedrich Wilhelm and Julianne Lessing Huebner made their way to Wisconsin and settled in Manitowoc. Their livelihood was timbering, shoemaking, and real estate. On December 25, 1848, Friedrich Wilhelm purchased a town lot in section 29, T19N, R24E; Julianne also acquired real estate, and by May of 1854 the couple owned town lots and most of section 5. Even daughter Emilie, at age 10 years, purchased 163 acres of section 5 from William Bach. A century later, some of this land was still owned by Huebner descendants bearing the names Pautz (1948) and Tomaschefsky (1978). Friedrich Wilhelm was visited by Kossuth in 1851 or 1852 and became a U.S. citizen in 1855. Surprisingly, there is no record of Friedrich Wilhelm's involvement in Wisconsin politics or town government. He died May 28, 1881; Julianne died 1898. Two children were born in Wisconsin:
Frederick August Huebner (see below)
William John Huebner (born October 28, 1854) became a farmer, married Ella R. Wegner in Manitowoc on July 2, 1884, and died March 9, 1936. Children include Nellie (who married Edward Tomaschefsky, February 8, 1912), Edward, Esther (who married Edward Kerscher, June 6, 1906), and Ida (who married Louis Bishop). There is a group picture.Frederick August Huebner (born May 20, 1850 in Manitowoc) was the first or the third white child born in Manitowoc village. As a child he interacted with the local Winnebago Indian children and learned of their way of life. Early schooling was intermittent and informal, but he learned to read and as a adult read a great deal. He was interested in horticulture and farming methods, used a microscope, improved the family farm on section 5, and grew large potatoes, seed potatoes, peas, winter rye, and beets. He served on the school board, was town chairman, and helped start the county fair. Fred died July 27, 1921. On December 9, 1875, Fred married Louisa Wilhelmine ('Minnie') Dicke (1852-1933) of New Bremen, Ohio, and Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, who became a seamstress near Manitowoc. Minnie and her siblings, Katherine Margaret Lisabeth 'Lizzie' Dicke (who married Gerhardt ('Jerry') Lemkuhl and helped run a general store in Manitowoc) and William Frederick Dicke were the children of Henry Dicke (1827-1857) and Margareta Vogelsang (1829-1897). Fred and Minnie had four children:
Christofina Huebner was born January 29, 1877, caught black smallpox from her father, and died July 29, 1877.
Franziska Eliese Huebner was born August 10, 1878, and died of typhoid fever, March 22, 1879.
Solomon Huebner (see below)
Grover Gerhardt Huebner (see below)Solomon Huebner (later Solomon Stephen Huebner) was born March 6, 1882, and attended Two Rivers Country and Two Rivers High Schools. As a child, he collected arrowheards exposed by the plows on the family farm in section 5, leading to the hobby of mineral collecting during the late 1930's. (One of his grandsons was profoundly influenced by the collection and studied mineralogy.) Solomon studied economics at the University of Wisconsin where he was also interested in debating, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned the B.L. degree in 1902, and received the M.L. degree in 1903. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905 and became a full professor at Penn's Wharton School in 1908. In 1903, Solomon met Ethel Elizabeth Mudie (1875-1968), a graduate student in history, and they were married in Kingston, Ontario, June 24, 1908. Solomon led a distinguished career teaching insurance, writing about insurance and the stock market, and furthering ethics and continuing education for insurance professionals. He died near Philadelphia on July 17, 1964. There were one son and three daughters, one granddaughter and two grandsons, including:
John Mudie Huebner (born July 25, 1911 in Kingston, Ontario, died 1996 near Philadelphia) went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to study under his father, then went to Penn's Law School. He was an executive with a life insurance company and enjoyed teaching in a business, rather than academic, environment. He married Elizabeth Converse and they had two sons; there are four grandsons. One of the grandsons works in risk management and property-casualty insurance.
Esther Ann Huebner (born 1917 in Philadelphia, died 1988 in New York City) was a horticulturist (specializing in medieval plants) and did not marry.Grover Gerhardt Huebner (born in Manitowoc, November 13, 1884) was raised on the family farm. He followed his brother to the University of Wisconsin (BA with Honors, 1905; MA 1906) and to the University of Pennsylvania (PhD 1908, full professor 1920). Grover became an expert in commerce and transportation. He married Hallie Madeline Beall (1891/2-1952) in 1913 and died near Philadelphia, March 9, 1964. There were two sons and six grandsons, including:
Robert Dismoor Huebner (1918-1963) became a specialist in vascular diseases. He and his wife had a daughter and three sons.