Santa has brought you a special gift this morning! Please enjoy a free eBook of “Karl Crosses the Atlantic” (written by Josiah Schmidt), a richly illustrated children’s book telling the story of Georg Karl Schmidt, the first of the West Bend Schmidts to come to America in 1881. Click here to view your free eBook! (file type: […]
This is an essay written in 1927 by John Klein, a Humboldt, Iowa high school student. His freshman English class was to interview and write about an older person in the community. The essays are collected at the Humboldt public library. Michael Lindemann is the subject of this essay and it includes an account of […]
The Schmidt family of Machtlos began with Hans Heinrich Schmidt and Barbara (Rimbach) Schmidt, who lived in the latter 1600s and early 1700s. The branches of the Machtlos Schmidt family who settled in America, however, exist because of Hans Heinrich’s great great grandson: Dietrich Schmidt. Dietrich Schmidt baptism record, 6 April 1803, Machtlos Dietrich Schmidt was […]