Johann Genning, 1818-1898 and His Descendants: A Toledo Family, with Notes on the Families of Rust, Gunn, Kleinhans, Bruning, Holtgrieve, and NesperBy William Bart Saxbe Jr.
1988 Gateway Press (Baltimore, Maryland), 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, thoroughly indexed, xi, 285 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of bumping to all four tips. Inside, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked.
Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the descendants of, Johann Christian Friedrich Genning (1818-1898) and Maria Sophia Dorothea Guderitz (1854-1875), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1854 and settled in Toledo, Ohio. Gives extensive primary coverage to the genealogy of the Rust, Gunn, Jennings, Rust, Genning, Kleinhans, Bruning, Holtgrieve and Nesper families.
Other surnames receiving extensive mention include: Baker, Carver, Conrad, Dalton, Flegle, Gennings, Grewe, Guderitz, James, King, Lane, Marsh, Miller, Minnick, Nester, Newman, Pfanner, Raub, Reamsnyder, Saxbe, Schroder, Schweibert, Scribner, Seiler, Sherman, Smith, Snider, Snyder, Soltendiek, Stevens, Stewart, Swanson, Tilly, Trapp, Unangst, Whitmore.
Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Johann Genning and Maria Guderitz
- Second Generation
- Third Generation
- Fourth Generation
- Fifth Generation
- Sixth and Seventh Generations
- Rust Family
- Gunn Family
- Kleinhans Family
- Bruning Family
- Holtgrieve Family
- Nesper Family
- Acknowledgements
- Afterword to Genealogists
- Index