BICHMANN, Hermann (Newburgh NY)

 

HERMANN BICHMANN (Newburgh NY)

IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: Hermann Bichmann

PHOTO TAKEN: William C. Peck Studio, Newburgh NY, circa 1890

PHOTO ACQUIRED: Dec 2022 South Florida Fairgrounds Antiques Festival

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This is Christian Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Hermann BICHMANN, who obviously was known as "Hermann," born Sept 17, 1865 in Ettingshausen Germany to parents Karl Ludwig Friedrich Georg BICHMANN and Katharina Elisabeth SANGMEISTER.

Hermann went through quite a bit of loss in Germany. When he was 3, he lost his 2-years-older brother Karl Wilhelm. Between ages 7 and 9, three younger siblings died (Hermann August, Eleonore, Meline). And in 1879 at age 13, his older sister Karoline died when she was about 15. When Hermann was 15, his father died. And when he was 21 he lost his mother. This left Hermann virtually alone with the exception of a younger sister who married a man named Zimmer around that time.

Around 1888/1889 Hermann arrived in New York and became a naturalized citizen.

1900 Census > New York > Orange > Newburgh > 417 Washington St

• BAKER, Rosa, head, 35 wd, Jun 1864, born in NY of German parents, Mineral Waters Mfg
• RAMSPERGER, Wilhelm, father, 73, Jun 1826, born in Germany, no occupation
• BICHMANN, Hermann, boarder, 34 s, Sep 1865, born in Germany, manager at Mineral Waters Mfg

30-Sep-1902 in Newburgh, Hermann married Rose Viola BAKER, the widow of J. Edward Baker, whom he knew for several years as he boarded at her house. J. Edward Baker had owned a business which manufactured mineral waters, Baker's Bottled Products, a business which he and his father founded about 1885 in Poughkeepsie and expanded into a second location in Newburgh, NY. 

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[This insert above was found in the publication "The American Bottler" Volume 28, 1908.]

Rosa died in 1935, and two years later Hermann died (15-Apr-1937). 

They are buried in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY.