School Report Card for Emma Sutorius
<p>This is the front page of the school report card of Emma Sutorius. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, Emma was the first child of Dirk and Maria Sutorius. She married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>While the Schuetz-Sutorius family attended a German-speaking church, Emma's school was English-speaking, as this report card testifies. Another interesting detail is that the card came out of a small printing shop in Falls City, Nebraska, showing that neither the structure, nor the form or even the color of the report cards was standardized.</p>
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Richardson County, Nebraska School District 38
Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
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School Report Card for Lena M. Harms, 1925-1926
<p>This document comes from the Family of Bill Dean Collection and belongs to the generation of Bill Dean's parents. The school report card from 1925-1926 school year illustrates that the form for school reports has largely remained unchanged for the larger part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The subjects, however, reflect the skills deemed necessary for the school students in that era and include Physiology, Mental Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, and Agriculture. This curriculum would equip a student living in the rural Nebraska (Harms family comes from Humboldt) with the skills necessary to find employment in the local enterprises and agriculture.</p>
<p>Lena Harms was the eldest daughter of Edo and Emma Harms, German-Swiss Americans in Humboldt, Nebraska. Emma Harms's great-grandparents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz came to Humboldt from Switzerland in 1870s and her both her grandmother and mother married emigrants from Germany.</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1925-1926
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History of the Schuetz Family
<p>This is the Schuetz family history starting from Gottlieb Schuetz and Anna Parli who came from Canton Berne, Switzerland to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. The family history dates back to the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, as it is typed on the stationery of the bank established in 1915 and probably compiled by Mary and/or Arnold Schuetz. Gottlieb Schuetz and Anna Parli were the second maternal great-grandparents of Bill Dean and his family who shared the documents at the History Harvest. It is possible that the list of children is not complete, as the obituaries list Gottlieb Schuets having ten children of whom only five survived him. Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland was the only daughter to survive Gottlieb Schuetz, and she started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Their daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>First settled in 1855, Humboldt, Nebraska is very close to Nebraska's borders with three states: Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas. The town was a home to a vibrant immigrant community uniting people from Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, and later Czechoslovakia, England, and various other places in the United States and beyond. The German-speaking community organized around the German Methodist mission that established a church in Humboldt in 1879, of which Gottlieb Schuetz was a member and maybe even a pastor.</p>
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Gottlieb Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate and Certificate of Good Standing in the Church
<p>These are baptismal documents for Gottlieb Schuetz, the second great-grandfather of Bill Dean, whose family provided the document. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli, also from Canton Berne, in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Their daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>The document on the left is a baptismal certificate that in that era most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (<em>Eltern</em>), witnesses of baptism (<em>Zeugen</em>) and date and place of birth down to the district (<em>Amtsbezirk</em>) and parish (<em>Kirchgemeinde</em>). The document on the right is probably a proof of baptism and good standing in the church required for the marriage ceremony. Issued on November 10, 1863, the document predates Gottlieb and Anna's marriage certificate by two weeks.</p>
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Gottlib Schuetz and Anna Parli's Marriage Certificate
<p>These are baptismal documents for Gottlieb Schuetz, the second great-grandfather of Bill Dean, whose family provided the document. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli, also from Canton Berne, in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Their daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>The document on the left is a baptismal certificate that in that era most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (<em>Eltern</em>), witnesses of baptism (<em>Zeugen</em>) and date and place of birth down to the district (<em>Amtsbezirk</em>) and parish (<em>Kirchgemeinde</em>). The document on the right is probably a proof of baptism and good standing in the church required for the marriage ceremony. Issued on November 10, 1863 the document predates Gottlieb and Anna's marriage certificate by two weeks.</p>
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1863
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Schuetz Family Document
<p>This document comes from the family of Bill Dean and bears the name of the second great-grandfather of the family, Gottlieb Schuetz. The date is May 15, 1864, and as it is close to Arnold Schuetz's birth, it might be a certificate that documented the payment for baptism (the official fee is printed at the bottom) or other related expenses.</p>
<p>A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Arnold Schuetz was their first son born on February 7, 1864 in Switzerland. Their daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1864
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Elize Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate
<p>This is a baptismal certificate for Elize Schuetz, the daughter of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Elize Schuetz was the second child in the family born on April 17, 1865. She died in the vicinity of Humboldt, Nebraska on September 17, 1877, the year she turned twelve.</p>
<p>The Schuetzes' daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>Baptismal certificates in the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (<em>Eltern</em>), witnesses of baptism (<em>Zeugen</em>) and date and place of birth down to the district (<em>Amtsbezirk</em>) and parish (<em>Kirchgemeinde</em>).</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1865
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Maria Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate
<p>This is a baptismal certificate for Maria (Mary) Schuetz, the daughter of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Maria was the third child in the family born on February 22, 1867 and started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>Baptismal certificates in the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (<em>Eltern</em>), witnesses of baptism (<em>Zeugen</em>) and date and place of birth down to the district (<em>Amtsbezirk</em>) and parish (<em>Kirchgemeinde</em>).</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1867
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Friedrich Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate
<p>This is a baptismal certificate for Friedrich Schuetz, the fourth child of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Friedrich was their last child, born in Switzerland on October 3, 1868. He never married and died in the house of his brother Arnold, the eldest in the family on August 29<sup>th</sup>, 1912.</p>
<p>Friedrich's elder sister Maria Schuetz started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>Baptismal certificates in the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (<em>Eltern</em>), witnesses of baptism (<em>Zeugen</em>) and date and place of birth down to the district (<em>Amtsbezirk</em>) and parish (<em>Kirchgemeinde</em>).</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1868
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Confirmation Certificate for Anna Parli
<p>This confirmation certificate comes from the family of Bill Dean, Margaret Dean's husband, who are the second great-grandchildren of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz. Born in 1840 in Ruegsau, Switzerland, Anna Parli was 16 at Confirmation. She married Gottlieb Schuetz, who lived in the same Burgorf District in Canton Berne, Swtizerland in 1863. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. Having lived in various places in the Burgdorf district between 1863 and 1868, they finally immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Their daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1856
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