Summary on Zubke Family

Thanks to Joel Thoreson, Chief Archivist for Management, Reference, and Technology, Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Elk Grove Village, IL) for his assistance.

• Herman Zubke was born in 1845 in Prussia, immigrated to America
at age 23 in 1868, and married Emelia/Louisa in 1874; he was a wagonmaker & owned his home; he could read & write but could not speak English; his father, August, was a farm laborer and in 1880 lived with the family in Germantown, Wisconsin (NW of Milwaukee)
• Emelia/Louisa was born in Wisconsin to German immigrants, was a homemaker, and could read, write, & speak English
• Herman & Emelia/Louisa had Arthur in 1875 (Dec. 12) and Ella in 1887, and still lived in Germantown, WI
• In 1910, Arthur [Edwin] Zubke lived in Milwaukee by himself and was a music teacher; by 1918, he lived at 1071 Cedar St. (Milwaukee) with his father
• Herman Zubke may have acquired the Summaria in 1892 (Arthur was 17 years of age then) and gave it to his son later