Gustav Karl Ohmer was born in Herxheim, Germany, in 1869. Gustav, fourteen, and his older brother, Karl (Charles) Ohmer, fifteen, arrived in America via Castle Garden, New York, on 31 October 1884 on the Rhein & Maasdam. They then travelled to St. John’s in Collegeville, Minnesota, where they both spent one semester before they left to make their lives in America. They left behind their younger brother Jacob Eduard (Edward F.) and parents Franz Carl and Anna Maria Ohmer, all in Germany. Edward arrived in St. Louis in the 1890s and all are buried at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. Franz passed in Germany in 1902 and Anna Maria arrived in St. Louis in 1904.
Gustav found his career as a baker/confectioner in Ottumwa, Iowa, and married Mary Dennebrink prior to his arrival in St...
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