The Family of Theodore and Elise Borberg
Information
- Married
Theodore Borberg, [1810 - 1 Feb 1877]
- Parents
Margrethia "Elise" (Grosskurth) Borberg, [1812 - 14 Feb 1871]
- Parents
Children (Kinder)
- Thekla Borberg
Photo Album (Foto Album):
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- Theodor born Nidda, Germany, son of local pharmacist
- 1831 Theodor Doctor of Pharmacology 29 Mar 1836 builds new pharmacy in the Schillerstr. 26 (and another farmyard)
- 1839-1842 Mayor
- 1841 has to sell pharmacy (many departs)
- 1843 at sells land, at daughter's birth, record says father manufacturer (liquior factory)
- 1846/7 during the years of hunger - he is engaged in poor tasting "poor tasting soup institute" director
- 1849 the rest of his estate is sold and auctioned
- 1849 - 1852 the family lives in the Pfannmüller house, not own house
- 1854 Concession for the transport of emigrants, accompanies them to Bremen
- 1856 alderman of the city, also district councilor, handles real estate sales
- 1857 emigration with family, auctioned at the beginning of March his belongings, says „Good bye“ in the Nidda-Newspaper (13 March 1857)
- from Bremerhaven to Orleans on the three-master ship "Ocean", the crossing takes 65 days, Dr. BORBERG acts as a ship's doctor on this journey, three-day stay in New Orleans, onward journey to St. Louis, there arrival on 3 June, onward journey by rail
- settles in a German-populated area near St. Louis - as a doctor and obstetrician (Nidda book p. 202: The pharmacist dr. BORBERG, who emigrated to America in 1857, informs the Nidda public in his "Open Letters" about his American experiences)
- 14.2.1871 his wife Elise dies (in her 60th year in New Melle, written in Nidda in the newspaper) source for above: Beate Harbich-Schonert
- Theodor dies on 1.2.1877, Church of St. John Cappeln, Missouri, cemetery tombstone
- tombstones a character portrayal
