https://georgehenry.blogger.de/ Blogger.de gusenbauer (mailto:gusenbauer@web.de) 2013-07-15T21:24:46Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2291469/ In 1883, the year George was born, world politics changed drastically. The German Empire founded its first colonies. German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who always tried to have friendly and diplomatic relationships to other powerful countries like Russia, lost his influential position after German Emperor William I and his son and successor Frederick III both died in 1888. This year was called in German “Dreikaiserjahr”, meaning Year Of The Three Emperors. Finally Wilhelm’s grandson,... Blogger.de gusenbauer Copyright © 2013 gusenbauer 2013-07-15T21:24:46Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2289602/ As mentioned before, there were a lot of close relatives living in North California in those days. George must have had contact to most of them. Most importantly, his two sisters, Magdalene Suter (maiden name Backenköhler) and Anna Backenköhler, who returned to Germany in 1906. Magdalene stayed in San Francisco, where she met her later husband, Frank M. Suter in the aftermaths of the Earth Quake in Golden Gate Park. Frank was essentially older than Magdalene. The two of them had two sons,... Blogger.de gusenbauer Copyright © 2013 gusenbauer 2013-07-11T17:47:10Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2249270/ George was born on May 14, 1883 in the town of Elsfleth in an area called 'Wesermarsch' in the former state of Oldenburg, just a few kilometers northwest of Bremen. His family moved around the state of Oldenburg and ended up in the the town of Neuenburg in the southern part of is now know as the county of Friesland. This is the place where he spent most of his childhood and youth. His parents were Helene Brüggemann and Johann Gerhard Hinrich Backenköhler. His father began his career... Blogger.de enaz Copyright © 2013 enaz 2013-05-01T02:44:25Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2183490/ About 112 years ago, my great great uncle, Georg Heinrich Backenköhler, immigrated to the United States of America. After living in various places in San Francisco and North California, his trace was completely lost at the end of 1918. Three years ago, in April of 2009, my uncle Stefan started investigating the life of George Henry in California for the first time. Due to considerable and time-consuming research he found out that the latter is thought to have been living and working in a company... Blogger.de gusenbauer Copyright © 2013 gusenbauer 2013-01-03T12:28:18Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2192468/ Below you can see an old photography which Stefan believes shows George Henry Backenkohler as a nice gentleman living in America about a century ago. These pictures have been in our family's property, but no one knows for sure who is porttrayed in them. Blogger.de gusenbauer Copyright © 2013 gusenbauer 2013-01-20T12:31:40Z https://georgehenry.blogger.de/stories/2192473/ This picture was probably taken in Scotia, Humboldt County; that is the place where Stefan found the last written document with George's name on it. Blogger.de gusenbauer Copyright © 2013 gusenbauer 2013-01-20T12:38:45Z Search this site: q https://georgehenry.blogger.de/search