Steffen, Jacob

1792 - 1870  (77 years)    Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Steffen, Jacob
  Born	15 Nov 1792	, , , Prussia
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	12 Jun 1848	New York, New York, New York, USA
  on the Luconia from Antwerp
  Name:Jacob Steffen Arrival Date:12 Jun 1848 Age:53 Gender:M (Male) Port of Arrival:New York Port of Departure:Antwerp Place of Origin:Deutschland Ship:Luconia Family Identification:1024800 Microfilm Serial Number:M237 Microfilm Roll Number:73 See Notes in Other on family Immigration
  1855 State Census	1855	Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Name:Jacob Steffen State:WI County:Outagamie County Township:Hortonia Year:1855 Database:WI 1855 State Census Index
  1860 Census	1860	Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Jacob Steffen60 Anna Steffen52 Franics Steffen22
  1860 Census	1860	Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  page 06
  Jacob Steffen 60 Anna Steffen 52 Franics Steffen 22
  	1860 Census Hortonia Page06 Outagamie County, Wisconsin
  1870 Census	1870	Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Jacob Steffen77 Anna Steffen67 Mary Diemal30 Henry Diemal33 William Diemal9 Jacob Diemal8 Anna Diemal6 Herman Diemal4 Elizabeth Diemal1 Adam Drochner17
  1870 Census	1870	Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Jacob Steffen - 77 Anna Steffen - 67 Mary Diemal - 30 Henry Diemal - 33 William Diemal - 9 Jacob Diemal - 8 Anna Diemal - 6 Herman Diemal - 4 Elizabeth Diemal - 1 Adam Drochner - 17
  Died	20 Jul 1870	Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Biography	Aft 20 Jul 1870
  Jakob Steffen was born in what was then Prussia, on November 15, 1792. This writer knows nothing about his birth family beyond that. However, based on interviews with his children and more, we have pretty solid information on his life recorded for us in Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley, 1895, pages 828-30 (which cover the Steffen family). He and his offspring are given attention in that book as a true pioneer family in founding what is now the community encompassing Dale and Hortonville in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. In 1820 Jakob married Katharine Richartz. He had two sons with her, or at least two recorded that survived (John Jacob and Nicholas). She died in 1832. Then he married Mary Elizabeth Houbreck (b. 1798) in 1824. She died in 1838, but not until she had given Jakob at least 7 children: John, Mathias, Leonard "Conrad," Ignatz, Katharine, Franz/Francis, and Jacob Jr.). He then remarried again, to Anna sometime after 1838 and before 1848. There are no children in the record from that marriage. Jakob and Anna Steffen then came to America on the ship "Luconia," arriving in New York on June 12, 1848. According to the ship manifest and the above Commemorative History, they came with son John and his wife Appolonia and their infant daughter Anna, Katharine, Nicholas, Mathias, Conrad and his wife Lucy/Lucia, Franz and Jacob, and two other Steffens that may have been the Jakob's nephews. Son John Jacob had already come over earlier, in 1846 (which is the date the latter gave on the 1900 Federal Census, and fits the records identified above). Son Ignatz came over later, most likely in 1857 (the date Ignatz gave to the Census in 1900). When the Steffens arrived in the U.S. they lived first in the area of Saratoga Springs, NY for a few years. Then most of the Steffens began to relocate to the area of Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin (later including Dale and Hortonville). First was John Jacob in 1850, then Leonard "Conrad" in 1851. The next year, Jakob and Anna joined these two sons there with Jakob's younger sons Franz/Francis, and Jacob (the latter appears in the local records when he got married,and then enlisted in the Union Army, in 1862 in Hortonville). Then came John and Appolonia and 3 boys they had in New York State (leaving little Anna buried in NY),in Spring 1855. Ignatz came around 1857. Matthias and Nicholas chose to stay in New York and appear in the Census established there. Daughter Katharine appears to have died there in NY and so never made it to Wisconsin, according to the above Commemorative Biography. Jakob Steffen was a farmer, a pioneer who cleared timber to put in his farm and expand it. He continued in that work right up to his death on July 20, 1870. His wife Anna lived another 24 years, dying in 1894. Both lifelong Roman Catholics, they were buried together in Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, Hortonville, Wisconsin. Many of their sons and grandchildren are buried there too.
  Other Info or Events	From genealogy researcher David Ayers; These are all the "Steffens" coming out of Antwerp Belgium on the ship "Luconia" that arrived at Ellis Island in June 12, 1848. But many are actually Stark. This is clear from the family lists given in Commemorative biographical record of the Fox River Valley counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, J. H. Beers and Co., 1895, pages 828 and 829, which lists the children of Jakob Steffen clearly, and the German records recorded by Jade Schmitt (see FindaGrave entry for Peter Stark, also copy of the latter and Orenhofen Retuter book set as a "Story" on many of the records in David John Ayers public family tree for his early Stark and Steffen ancestors) which lists clearly the children of Chrisopher and Anna (Reuter) Stark. Anna Steffen listed first (as born in 1802, but in the German records as born in 1794 - not sure which is correct) is Anna Reuter Stark Steffen, widowed wife of Christoph(er) Stark, now (at the time of this passage on the Luconia) third wife of Jakob Steffen. "Peter Steffen" listed as 16 is actually Peter Stark and according to German records and his grave stone, born in 1830, not 1832 as listed here. "Lucia Steffen" listed as born approximately in 1834 is the Lucia Stark listed in the German records as born February 8, 1833 and as having possible emigrated with Jakob and Anna in 1848 (see again "Jade Schmitt" story referenced above). The other Lucia Stark in Christof and Anna Stark's family, born in 1927, had died as a little girl (see Orenhofen book record). Apollonia Steffen listed here is actually Apollonia Stark Steffen, now married to John ("Johann") Steffen since 1845 (abundantly clear in records from America, and the above referenced "Commemorative Biographical Record…"). She is the great-great-grandmother of the author (David John Ayers) of these notes. The Anna Steffen listed last above is their youngest (and at this point only) child, who died after arriving in the U.S., passing away in about 1850. One son by Christoph(er) and Anna Stark's marriage is clearly not listed here, namely Adam. The German records (see "Jade Schmitt" records referenced above) list him as one of Anna's Stark children Other records (see comments regarding Paula Rosa Owen's handwritten notes from Bernice Steffen, also Orenhofen Karl Becker book that shows he and his wife and children living and dying in Orenhofen) indicate that he clearly stayed in Prussia and did not come to America with the rest of the family. Moreover, the German records indicate that at least "one stepson" (that is, of Jakob's) did not emigrate to America. That, and the other (above) evidence, supports Adam Stark having stayed behind (with his new wife "E. Schmitz", whom he had married in 1847 (see Jade Schmitt record referenced above), even though the Orenhofen Reuter book indicates Adam had emigrated with his blended family. Since The "Elisabeth Stark" (b. 1829) listed in the German record as having possibly emigrated with Jakob and Anna, did not appear on the Luconia list above, and in other records (Karl Becker, Orenhofen) her death is listed in the church records in Orenhofen, over a decade before the blended Steffen family left Orenhofen. OTHER NOTES ON STEFFENS HERE The Commemorative Biographical Record accounts (referenced above) of the Jakob Steffen children by his two wives with whom he had children do not list a Symen Steffen born approximately 1832. Symen was not one of Christopher and Anna Stark's children. However, that date of 1832 would put make sense in the list of the children Jakob had with his second wife prior to marrying Anna (between Conrad and Ignatz). Moreover, the German records (see Jade Schmitt referenced above) list a son of Jakob's, Friedrich Wilhem, born in 1832 as one of the "children" with whom Jakob and Anna probably emigrated in 1848. This is almost certainly "Symen". The Commemorative Biographical record (above), which again appear to be very complete in listing Jakob's children, do not mention a Friedrich Wilhelm either, but then he might have died prior to the family reaching Wisconsin. Regardless, we have no "Symen Steffen" or "Friedrich Wilhelm" Steffen appearing anywhere else as one of Jakob Steffen's sons. But he is clearly established as a son in the Orenhofen records, born that year (1832). "Conrad born approximately 1829" (above) appears to be the "Leonard Steffen" (as in Leonard Conrad) attested to abundantly elsewhere. This fits other records (see David John Ayers family tree on Ancestry.com, Commemorative Biographical record above; Leonard is the name given to the Jakob Steffen son born in September 1828 listed in the German records transcribed by Jade Schmitt referenced above, etc). Passenger Lists reads: Jacob Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 179553MaleAntwerp, Belgium Anna Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 180246FemaleAntwerp, Belgium Peter Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 183216MaleAntwerp, Belgium Lucia Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 183414FemaleAntwerp, Belgium Nicolas Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 182325MaleAntwerp, Belgium Mathias Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 182622MaleAntwerp, Belgium Conrad Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 182919MaleAntwerp, Belgium Symen Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 183216MaleAntwerp, Belgium Catharina Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 183513FemaleAntwerp, Belgium Franz Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 183711MaleAntwerp, Belgium Jacob Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 18399MaleAntwerp, Belgium Johann Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 182523MaleAntwerp, Belgium Apolonia Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 182325FemaleAntwerp, Belgium Anna Steffen 12 Jun 1848abt 184711 MonthsFemaleAntwerp, Belgium
  Buried	Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Hortonville, Wisconsin, USA
  	Steffen, Jacob Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Hortonville, Wisconsin, USA Much of lettering hard to read. Shown side reads (in German) "died 20 July 1870 aged 78 years, 3 months and 26 days." Yields birth date of November 15, 1792.
  	Steffen, Jacob
  Person ID	I146673	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

  
  

  Family 1	Richartz, Katharine,   b. Bef 1802,   d. Abt 1822  (Age ~ 20 years)
  Married	Abt 1820
  Children	+ 1. Steffen, John Jacob,   b. 1 Nov 1820, Orenhofen, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 9 Jul 1904, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 83 years)   2. Steffen, Nicholas,   b. Abt 1822,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F58734	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Houbreck, Mary Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1798, , , , Germany ,   d. 31 Dec 1839, , , , Germany  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Married	Abt 1824	, , , Germany
  Children	+ 1. Steffen, John,   b. 19 Mar 1825,   d. 7 Oct 1895, Dale, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 70 years)   2. Steffen, Mathias,   b. Abt 1826,   d. Bef 1900  (Age ~ 73 years) + 3. Steffen, Leonard "Conrad",   b. 13 Sep 1828, Orenhofen, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 27 Apr 1904, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 75 years) + 4. Steffen, Ignatz,   b. 21 Feb 1831, , , , Luxembourg ,   d. 14 Feb 1906, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 74 years)   5. Steffen, Katherine,   b. 11 Dec 1834, Orenhofen, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. Bef 1857, , , New York, USA  (Age 22 years) + 6. Steffen, Francis,   b. 5 Nov 1836, , , , Germany ,   d. 15 Dec 1879, Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 43 years) + 7. Steffen, Jacob Jr.,   b. 28 Dec 1838, Trier, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 5 Mar 1864, Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, USA  (Age 25 years) + 8. Steffen, Mary,   b. Abt 1839,   d. Abt 1894, Maine, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F49470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Reuter, Anna,   b. Abt 1802,   d. Abt 1894, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age ~ 92 years)
  Married	Aft 1839
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2014
  Family ID	F60456	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 15 Nov 1792 - , , , Prussia Married - Abt 1824 - , , , Germany Immigration - on the Luconia from Antwerp - 12 Jun 1848 - New York, New York, New York, USA 1855 State Census - 1855 - Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1860 Census - 1860 - Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1860 Census - page 06 - 1860 - Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1870 Census - 1870 - Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1870 Census - 1870 - Hortonia, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 20 Jul 1870 - Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Buried - - Saints Peter And Paul Catholic Cemetery, Hortonville, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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