2409 S. Vine Urbana, Illinois 61801 - Richard R. Grayson, MD

document sent to me by Marjorie Jean Bueglar [I511 , and shares a lot with the family history typed up by
L Minnie Shurtleff 1'791 . 1 include the document below.
Father: Walter Lee Schmidt
Mother: Jean Elizabeth Allison [I881
Early Kinne History
On July 9, 1867, the 45 year old Fuhrman (trucker) Heinrich Kinne, of the town of Rocklum
in Kreise (county) of Halberstadt, in the province of Saxony, Germany, applied for emigration
papers to North America. Planning to emigrate with his wife, Magdalene Dorothea Henrietta,
nee Ziehe, who. was born April 17, 1825, and their four minor children:
Johanne F'riederika Christine, born November 20, 1849
Wilhelmina Sophie Dorothea, born November 28, 1851
Heinrich Christian, born June 7, 1854
Friedrich Heinrich, born March 1, 1859
One child, August Bernard, died in infancy
This emigration permission was granted by the Royal Prussian Government. In August they
set sail from Bremen on the Steamship Herrmann, landing at Castle Garden (New York Harbor)-
remained there two or three days. Later they came by train to Proviso, Illinois, to Grandma
Kiinne's sister, Johanna, who with her husband, Christoph Mueller and family, had settled there
in 1863. The Muellers worked for the Mandel family near Proviso (now a suburb of Chicago)
until 1867, when they moved to the old Grabenhorst place northeast of Dayton, Iowa.
Fred Mueller, a son, had come to the United States in 1862. He entered the Civil War as a
substitute for a man who wished to stay with his family. Anna and Henry were the youngest
of the five Mueller (Miller) children. Anna married Karl Treband and Henry married Pauline
Bergman. When the Kuennes came to Illinois they took the place which the Mandels vacated
by the Muellers, who moved to the wonderful land of promise, Iowa.
In 1868, the Kinnes also moved to Iowa, moving in with the Millers on the Grabenhorst place
(now the Earl Blair farm). When our Great Uncle Christoph Miller was to meet the Kinne
relatives at Boone, he went to neighbor Schram to borrow a horse to go with his. Neighbor
Schram loaned him the horse and he also went along to welcome the Kinnes to Iowa. And a
real welcome it was! (Can we imagine that visit on the farm wagon drawn by horses, then the
fastest mode of transportation over the prairie and woodland trails? Oxen were much used then
for farm work and some road travel.)
The following spring Grandpa Kinne helped Great Uncle Miller build their new log home;
this log house stood east of where the Miller home of Cedar Grove now stands. (This was sold
by the Millers, Florine and Mathilda, to the Girl Scout organization and is their camp at the
present, 1972.) They built of native lumber, with brick made of clay and straw mixed with
water. Early settlers chose woodland areas for their homes thus having building and heating
material close at hand.
In 1870 the Kinnes moved on the prairie in the south end of what is now Burnside Township.
In those early years, they often hitched their teams, and with four horses pulling the big lumber
or farm wagon they drove to the different shcool houses and homes to attend Divine Services.
In 1878 Trinity Lutheran Church on the Burnside-Dayton Township Line was built on property
of Charles and Wilhelmine Kinne Schram, who were married on April 3, 1873, in the old Allen
Schoolhouse. Thus the Kinne and Schram neighbors were related.
(I remember how Mr. William Schram used to tell how the younger folks took the farm wagon
to the creek to wash it up micely for the family and wedding party.)
Johanne Kinne was also married to a neighbor's son, a Civil War Veteran, August Kramer.
On May 5, 1887, Henry Kuenne was married to Emilie Henrietta Reichenbach in Trinity
Lutheran Church with Henry Kramer, (Uncle August Kramer's brother) August Abel and his
cousin Emma Preiss and Amanda Kramer (later Mrs. Christian Theiss), as attendants.
Fred Kinne was married to Wilhelmine Rossow of Colfax Township, Webster County, Iowa,
on February 28, 1884. The Fred Kinnes moved in the fall of 1894 with four children to Buffalo