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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 267997, member: 36&quot;]Unfortunately, he came to the USA in the 1850s, predating Ellis Island by a fair bit.&nbsp; I know for sure he went to England before heading to the US, because he got married there.&nbsp; The family story says he was getting out of Dodge ahead landing back in the military again; he&#039;d been in the artillery and had no desire to go back in.&nbsp; How true that is ...dunno.&nbsp; He was a blacksmith in civilian life, so it could all fit.&nbsp; He could also just have been one of the gazillion ethnic Germans who lived in what&#039;s now Poland.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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