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Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt when she worked for the family of Jane Bradley Pettit (born Sullivan and adopted by her mother's second husband) in Milwaukee in 1918, the year before she married. Her mother was born on the ship on the way over from Germany - in 1865.
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20: Brothers Eldor (about 15), Alfred (26), and Ed (24) Schmidt in front of what was later called the "car barn" on the family farmstead.
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19: Alfred L. Schmidt in World War I Army uniform.
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18: Alfred Schmidt plays with nephews, about 1918.
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17: Alfred Schmidt, confirmation photo, age 14, 1916.
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16: The Ernest & Minnie Ruhbusch family, about 1912. Ernest was the uncle of our grandmother Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt, so the kids in this photo were her first cousins. Marie, second from right in the back row, was Irmgard's age. The ancestry.com family tree I got the photo from lists the family members as: back, Ernest Jr., Amanda, Helena, Arlo, Marie, Ella; front Minnie (Wilhelmina Schenk), Clara, Minnie, and Ernest.
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14: Alfred L. Schmidt about 1910.
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13: 1893_Deed_August_G_to_FW_Schmidt.jpg
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12: 1893_Back_of_Deed_Aufust_G_to_FW_Schmidt.jpg
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11: assuming this is the other half of their wedding day picture, it was 1885-02-06 (he was 22 – born May 1863)
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22: Fred W. and Anna Fredericka Schmidt family, about 1918. Back, left to right, Laura Schmidt Otto (about 29), Edmund (24), Adeline (20), Otto (31), Elsie (32), Eldor (15). Front, Alvina Schmidt Wruck (22), "Rika" (52), Alfred (26), Fred (55), and Hildegard (17).
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23: Alfred L. Schmidt, second son of Fred & Rika Schmidt, in his World War I sergeant's uniform circa 1918. Alfred was drafted and served as a mess sergeant at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The war ended before he could be sent to Europe.
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25: Alfred Schmidt built brick silos with this signature pattern in 1919-1920, before and just after he and Irmgard were married.
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26: Circa 1919 - anaother brick silo Alfred Schmidt built. He made $75 a week -- more than many laborers earned in a month -- and saved enough money to buy his father's farm.
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27: Circa 1919 -- Alfred's lack of fear of heights was a real asset when building silos.
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28: Alfred Schmidt models his World War I uniform in front of the family farm house, about 1919.
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29: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and Alfred Schmidt, circa 1919.
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30: 1919-11-26_Alfred_and_Irmgard_Schmidt.jpg
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31: Ruben Schmidt at age 9 months, posed on the bearskin rug from the bear shot by his great-grandfather Gottfried Schmidt
