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Personal data Berend (Berend "Ben") "Ben" Goldhorn 


Household of Berend (Berend "Ben") "Ben" Goldhorn

He is married to Magaretta "Maggie" Harms.

They got married on November 25, 1886 at Pleasant Vly. Twp., Grundy Co., IA, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Trientje Goldhorn  1888-1974 


Notes about Berend (Berend "Ben") "Ben" Goldhorn

Berend "Ben" Goldhorn

Author: Stover, Lee, Title: "Stover", (Publication location unknown, Publisher: WorldConnect at RootsWeb.com, Publication date: xxxi Oct MMXVII), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stoverfam&id=I21618

"... Berend "Ben" Goldhorn 1 2 3 Sex: M Birth: 15 SEP 1863 in Bunde, Ostfriesland, Germany 3 Death: 25 NOV 1957 in Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa 3 Burial: Lot 30 Space 05-Hope Reformed Cemetery-Lyon County, Iowa

Event: Funeral Hope Reformed Church - George, Lyon County, Iowa 3 ...

Charter member of Hope Reformed Church SW of George, Lyon County, Iowa per page 294 of "We Will Go to a New Land" by Robert Behrens.

Moved to Lyon County, Iowa in 1888

Marriage 1 Magaretta "Margaret" Harms b: 14 NOV 1867 in Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois Married: 25 NOV 1886 in Pleasant Valley Township, Grundy County, Iowa 4 3 Event: Married by in Reverend George Veenker 3

Event: Church in Pleasant Valley Reformed Church 3

Note: Alvin was raised by his aunt and uncle, Margaret and Ben Goldhorn, following the untimely death of his mother in 1915.

Children

1. Jan Eilders "John" Goldhorn b: 28 APR 1887
2. Trientje "Trena" Goldhorn b: 13 SEP 1888 in George, Lyon County, Iowa
3. Minnie Christine Goldhorn b: 5 AUG 1890 in George, Iowa
4. Wesley Goldhorn b: 14 OCT 1892 in Lyon County, Iowa
5. Margaret Bernidine Goldhorn b: 2 DEC 1894
6. Christine Jeanette Goldhorn b: 11 MAR 1897 in George, Iowa
7. Anna Goldhorn b: 6 FEB 1899
8. Harm C. Goldhorn b: 19 JUL 1901
9. Eilert Goldhorn b: 25 SEP 1903 in George, Iowa
10. Martha Goldhorn b: 9 AUG 1906
11. Marie Goldhorn b: 9 AUG 1906
12. Alvin Eilert Goldhorn b: 28 NOV 1914 in Castlewood, Hamlin County, South Dakota

Sources:

1. Title: Donald Harms - Foley, Minnesota Note: Source Medium: Book

2. Title: In and Around George, Iowa - 1871 to 1912 Note: Source Medium: Book

3. Title: TITLE Text: Date of Import: Nov 27, 2000

4. Title: We Will Go to a New Land - The Great East Frisian Migration to America 1845-1895 Author: Robert Behrens Note: Source Medium: Book Page: Page 209"

Author: Casjens, Esther, et. al., Title: In And Around George, Iowa 1871 - 1912, (Publication location: Hills, MN, Publisher: Crescent Pub. Co., Publication date: MCMLXXVI), Pg. 121, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

[Pg. 121, Col. 1]

"Ben Goldhorn -- was born in Germany, immigrated to the United States, and was married in Parkersburg in 1886 to Margaret Harms, oldest daughter of Wesley Harms. In 1888 they came to Lyon County. After four years they moved to the farm southwest of George where Carl Fiihr now lives.

Children in the family were John (married Fannie Heeren); Trena (Mrs. Dick Siebrands); Minnie (Mrs. William"

[Pg. 121, Col. 2]

"[photograph of a woman & a man]

Siebrands); Wesley (married Fannie Pals); Margaret (Mrs. Henry Willemssen); Christine (Mrs. Henry Bruns); Anna (Mrs. Earl LeWark); Harm (married Minnie Jansen); Eilert (married Anna Jansen); and Marha and Maria (twins, died in infancy). Rev. Alvin (married to Vera Willemssen) was a nephew, the son of Ben's brother Eilert, who lived with the Ben Goldhorns from the time he was an infant because his mother died.

Mr. Goldhorn was a charter member and one of the signers of the articles of incorporation of the Farmers Elevator Co. here in 1906. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goldhorn were charter members of the Hope Reformed Church. Mr. Goldhorn served as Elder of the Church for thirty-six years and he taught Sunday School until he was in his eighties. Mr. and Mrs. Goldhorn lived to celebrate their seventieth wedding anniversary. He died at the age of ninety-four on their seventy-first anniversary. His wife died at ninety-five."
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Berend Goldhorn

Berend Goldhorn
1863-1957

1886

Magaretta "Maggie" Harms
1867-1963

Trientje Goldhorn
1888-1974
Minnie Christine Goldhorn
1890-1990

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Birthday September 15, 1863

  • The temperature on September 15, 1863 was about 15.8 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
    • August 15 » The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
    • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
    • September 16 » Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
    • October 3 » The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
    • November 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

Day of marriage November 25, 1886

  • The temperature on November 25, 1886 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
    • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
    • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
    • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
    • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
    • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Day of death November 25, 1957

  • The temperature on November 25, 1957 was between 5.6 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
    • March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
    • September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
    • September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
    • October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
    • November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.


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