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CHRISTIAN AND CATHERINE HOWALD LEFT BERNE, SWITZERLAND APPROXIMATELY 1851. SAILED FROM HARVE DE GRADE, FRANCE VIA A SAILING VESSEL, AND ARRIVED AT PLYMOUTH ROCK, U.S.A. THEY BOARDED ANOTHER VESSEL AND CAME DOWN THE GREAT LAKES TO MASSILAN, OHIO. AT MASSILAN THEY WERE MET BY TWO (2) BROTHERS WHO ARRIVED EARLIER. THE BROTHERS WERE GLASS BLOWERS AT MASSILAN, OHIO. THEY TOOK A TRAIN FROM MASSILAN TO TOLEDO,OHIO (WHICH WAS AS FAR AS THE RAILROAD CAME) AND TRAVELED VIA HORSE TO HILLSDALE, MICH. THEY STAYED AT THE KEIFER HOTEL AND LATER WALKED TO SOUTHERN HILLSDALE COUNTY (WEST AMBOY TOWNSHIP). THERE THEY BUILD A LOG CABIN.
CHRISTIAN AND CATHERINE BROUGHT TEN (10) CHILDREN FROM BERNE, SWITZERLAND AND THE OLDEST CHILD WAS A GIRL NAMED BARBARA HOWALD MORGAN. CHRISTIAN AND CATHERINE HAD ONE (1) CHILD IN THE U.S.A. FOR A TOTAL OF ELEVEN (11) CHILDREN.
A SON OF CHRISIAN AND CATHERINE WAS NAMED CHRISTIAN AND THE FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAS. HE LOST A LEG IN THE FIGHTING AND WAS PUT IN ANDERSONVILLE PRISON FOR SOMETIME. AFTER THE WAR HE WAS FITTED WITH A WOODEN LEG AND HE WORE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
CHRISTIAN MARRIED ETTA BLACKFORD AND WENT TO KANSAS WHERE HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING SOME LAND.
ANOTHER SISTER LOUISE HOWALD MARRIED CHUB JENKINS AND THEY LEFT FOR KANSAS BY HORSES AND WAGON. THEY WERE ALSO SUCCESSFUL.
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