Letter concerning Jacob Stubenbordt, Pendleton, OR Pioneer

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Submitted and transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pierre Stabenbordt
<pierresta@aol.com> July 2002
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       My great grandfather Jacob STUBENBORDT was born April 22nd 1839
in Zeiskam, a small village in Palatinate (Germany). He had to leave his
family , to not divide the land, which was his elder brother's heritage.
He came to Rouen (in Normandy, France) and thereafter to
Sotteville-lès-Rouen as a worker with two of his brothers, Phillip and
Georg. He married Louise Stephan there on June 6th 1863. They had four
children (one of them died quite young). Jacob had projects and decided
to leave to immigrate to the States. He left his wife Louise in Rouen
with their youngest son George, and he departed with the two others
kids, Guillaume (William) and Suzanne.
This was after Dec. 1871 (He was the best man at this brother's George
wedding in Rouen, and we can see his signature on the marriage license
in Dec. 1871) or the beginning of 1872.
Rouen is very near Le Havre in France, so he probably got a steamer in
Le Havre to leave France. But we don't know in which harbor he arrives
in the States (Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, New York or
anywhre else).
He settled in Saint-Louis (Missouri), where he lived on a furniture
business. On Dec. 18th 1881 he married there Katharina Oiler-Baumberger
(Born 02/02/1852), a widow with a daughter, Gertrude, born 11/8/1872 at
Burlington, Iowa.
The new family, the parents and the two daughters, left Saint-Louis to
Pendleton (OR) in 1882 or  rather 1883, following the building of the
railroad from East to West. Guillaume (William) the elder stayed in St
Louis : 07/12/1896 he lived yet in St Louis with his wife Mary. A letter
of his sister Suzanne, married in Pendleton (OR) with Henry Kopittke,
mentioned him and his wife Mary about 1910.
In Pendleton Jacob Stubenbordt and Katharina got a business, first a
saloon ("The National Saloon") and a grocery ("Old White House") and
things were getting well.
He was born an Evangelical (in Zeiskam, Palatinate, Germany), as all the
Stubenbordts in Germany since generations. He was still an Evangelical
in Rouen. He ended his life 1896 as an Episcopalian (and a "high mason")
in Pendleton (OR), according the local circumstances and his social
rise. He is mentionned in "The Centennial History of Oregon"(ed. Chicago
1912) as "one of the early pioneers of Oregon". He died in Pendleton
Februar 23rd 1896.
In the state of Oregon, that story ist connected with other families
such as   Kopittke, Nye, O'Gara, Sutton, Mustard.
That's a brief summary of the life of my great grandfather from Germany
to Oregon through Normandy. I'm the grand son of his younger son George,
left in Rouen with his mother Louise Stephan.
       I have written the whole story, but actually on french, my
language.
Notice : the name is spelled Stubenbordt in Germany and in the USA, but
Stabenbordt in France.
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