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| The Pittsburg Headlight (Pittsburg, Kansas)09 Aug 1888, Thu |
Andrew Michels was born in Sommerhausen, Bavaria, in March, 1820, [February 29] and in the company with his wife and children emigrated to America in July, 1853, and located in New York, where he worked at his trade as a brick mason and basket maker. In the spring of 1863 he removed to Illinois and settled in Effingham county, where he resided till 1868 at which time he emigrated to Kansas and located in this county, near where the city of Pittsburg now stands. With the discovery of coal in this district he sold his farm, on which coal had been found. He built the brick hotel at the corner of Broadway and Third streets, and retained the ownership of the building to the hour of his death. His was a familiar figure on our streets, and he enjoyed the friendship and esteem of a large circle of acquaintances. He leaves four children living, two sons and two daughters, George and William and Mrs. Albert Alterman and Mrs. Kasper Doille [Casper Dolly].
This is the newspaper article which led me to Andrea's baptismal record in Germany and 42 of his direct ancestors. I will be forever grateful to his children for including his birth city of Sommerhausen.
The hotel mentioned in the article is not longer standing.
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