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Name | Karl Friedrich Ernst Purf [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] | |
Born | 24 Apr 1828 | Neustadt an der Orla, Germany ![]() |
Gender | Male | |
Alias | Charles Purfeerst | |
A.K.A. | Charles Purfeerst ![]() |
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Immigration | 21 Sep 1852 | Arrived Baltimore, Maryland aboard vessel Mississippi from Bremerhaven, Germany ![]() |
Naturalization | 17 Oct 1854 | Naturalization Intention Papers, Franklin County, Ohio ![]() |
Property-1 | 22 Sep 1857 | S 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 108N, Range 19W, Merton Township, Steele County, Minnesota, 80 acres, transfer from United States to Charles Purfeerst, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-2 | 14 Dec 1857 | SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 and NE 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 108 (Merton), Range 19W, Steele County, Minnesota, 80 acres, transfer from Charles Purfeerst to Emmons P. Taylor, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-3 | 22 Mar 1858 | SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 and NW 1/4 of SW 1/4, Section 10, Township 108 (Merton), Range 19W. Transfer from Charles Purfeerst to Patrick Hunt, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-4 | 22 Mar 1858 | SE 1/4 of SW 1/4, Section 18 & NE 1/4 of NW 1/4, Section 19, Township 108 (Ellington), Range 18W, 80 acres sold by Patrick Hunt to Charles Purfeerst, Dodge County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-8 | 22 Dec 1862 | SE 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Section 18 and NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 19, Ellington Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, 80 acres transfer from Charles Purfeerst to Martha Carpenter, Dodge County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-5 | 5 Dec 1863 | NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of NE 1/4, Section 2, Township 108, Range 20W, Clinton Falls, Steele County, Minnesota, 10 acres, transfer from Brooks Chapin to Charles Purfeerst, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-6 | 26 May 1864 | SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 15, Township 108, Range 19W, Merton Township, Steele County, Minnesota, 40 acres, transfer from Chalres Purfeerst to John Lane, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-9 | 14 Jun 1864 | W 1/2 of SE 1/4 of Section 18, Township 109, Richland Township, Rice County, Minnesota, 80 acres, transfer from James Bridget to Charles Purfeerst, his first property in Rice County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-7 | 8 Mar 1867 | NW 1/4 of NE 1/4, Section 2, Township 108, (Clinton Falls), Range 20W, 10 acres transfer from Charles Purfeerst to Herman Purfeerst, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-10 | 4 Sep 1876 | W 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section 19, Township 109, Range 19W, Richland Township, Rice County, Minnesota, 80 acres sold by Henry Hoffmen to Charles Purfeerst, Rice County, Minnesota ![]() |
Property-11 | 15 Dec 1891 | W 1/2 of SE 1/4, Section 18, Township 109 (Richland), Range 19W, 80 acres sold by Charles & Mary Purfeerst ( Sr) to Charles Purfeerst (Jr), Rice County, Minnesota ![]() |
Buried | Mar 1895 | Richland Community Cemetery, Rice County, Minnesota ![]() |
Died | 1 Mar 1895 | Richland Township, Rice County, Minnesota ![]() |
Person ID | I000001 | Purfeerst |
Last Modified | 6 Jun 2010 |
Father | Johann David Ernst Purf, b. 27 Jul 1802, Neustadt an der Orla, Germany ![]() ![]() | |
Mother | Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann, b. 21 Jan 1799, Wildenthal, Germany ![]() ![]() | |
Married | 1 Oct 1827 | Eibenstock, Germany ![]() |
Family ID | F00636 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | Mary Jane Brown, b. 7 Dec 1837, Pennsylvania ![]() ![]() | |||||||||||||||||
Married | 23 Jan 1859 | Aurora, Steele County, Minnesota ![]() |
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Family ID | F00003 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Photos | ![]() | A3. St. John the Baptist Evangelical Church, Neustadt an der Orla, Germany. This picture of St. John the Baptist Evangelical church was taken by the Author during a year 2000 research trip to Neustadt, Germany. Many Purfürst family members who emigrated to America once lived in and around the village in which this church is located. The parish baptism, marriage and burial registers, dating back to 1600, revealed considerable information on our ancestors. In 1294 the Landgraf Albrecht von Thuringer (The Count Albrecht Thuringa) and his wife Elisabeth, the widowed Countess of Arnshaugh, built a chapel in Neustadt and dedicated it to John The Baptist. Although having since undergone a number of alterations, the structure seen here was completed in 1534 and is said not to have changed since. The Lutheran church of St. John the Baptist was the family parish for the Purfürst family groups listed below. * ILLINOIS, Cook County - Arno Walter Purfürst and Wilhelmine Purfürst * INDIANA, Fountain County - Carl Friedrich August Purfürst and Johann Friedrich Purfürst. * MINNESOTA, Rice County - Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst. * MINNESOTA, Steele County - Carl Friedrich Herman Purfürst. * MISSOURI, St. Louis County - Johann Friedrich Jacob Purfürst. * NEW JERSEY, Essex County - Johann David Ernst Purfürst, Christiana Paulina Purfürst, Robert Richard Purfürst and Ida Francisca Purfürst. * TEXAS, Harris County - Ernst August Purfürst. * FINLAND, Helsinki - Carl Wilhelm Alfred Purfürst See the individual Histories for the geographical locations associated with the families for more information on the family groups. See the History of St John's the Baptist church for more information on the parish. See the History of Neustadt, Germany for more information on the village where the church was located. |
![]() | Charles & Mary (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. Descendants - 1985. This picture was taken on July 14, 1985 in Rice County, Minnesota and shows the reunion of the descendants of Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst. a.k.a., Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. and Mary Jane Brown. The events began two days earlier at an evening reception held at a hotel in Faribault, Minnesota. The following day, July 13, 1985 graveside ceremonies were conducted at the Richland Township Cemetery where Charles and Mary Purfeerst were previously interred. The reunion was held on farm property originally purchased by Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. on June 14, 1864 and, to that day, had remained under ownership of his descendants. Initially the land passed to his son Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Jr.; thence to Mark Phillip Purfeerst, thence to Clarence Mark Purfeerst; and thence to Charles & Mary's GreatGreatGrandson James Mark Purfeerst. A total of 235 descendants attended the reunion. They came many corners of the United States including such far away places as the states of Pennylvania, Virginia, Georgia and Washington. See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for more information on the Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. family. Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. is the son of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for information on the parents. | |
![]() | Charles & Mary (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. Descendants - 1934. This picture was taken in 1934 in Rice County, Minnesota and displays many descendants of Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a. Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. and Mary Jane Brown. LEFT TO RIGHT:(with younger generations identified with their later married names): FRONT ROW: * Ernest David Purfeerst * Mary Lou (Karp) Pluemer * Violet (Purfeerst) Zabel * Marie (Purfeerst) Sticha * Clarence Mark Purfeerst * Michael John Karp * Myrtle Margaret (Purfeerst) Durand. SECOND ROW: (all of Charles and Mary Brown Purfeerst's surviving direct descendants and their respective surviving spouses.) * Margaret Dauser and spouse Charles Ernest Purfeerst,Jr., Pierce County, Wisconsin. * Rosa Ann (Purfeerst) Meyer, Spokane, Washington. (Husband Mathias Meyer deceased) * David Ernest Purfeerst & spouse Magdalena Margaret Gatzke, Rice County, Minnesota. * Harmon Francis Purfeerst & spouse Jennie June Johnson, Morton County, North Dakota. * William Frederick Purfeerst & spouse Josephine Kinney, Rice County, Minnesota. * Henry Mark Purfeerst & spouse Josephine Hanson, Rice County, Minnesota. THIRD ROW: * Isabelle Purfeerst * Amelia (Carpenter) Purfeerst * Earl Mathius Meyer, Sr. * Helga Olive (Hansen) Purfeerst * Margaret Marie (Carpenter) Purfeerst * Lauretta Hazel (Purfeerst) Bowers * Lena (Meyer) Kaiser * Helen Sticha * Mary Catherine (Purfeerst) Karp * Hazel Marcella (Schlipp)Purfeerst * Elizabeth M. Sherning-Purfeerst * Wilhelmine A. Purfeerst FOURTH ROW * David Charles Purfeerst * Mark Phillip Purfeerst * George William Purfeerst * Roy David Purfeerst * Charles Henry Purfeerst * Arthur Kaiser * Michael Peter Karp * Adelard Eugene Purfeerst * Leland Rosemond Purfeers * Earl Christ Purfeerst The two ladies standing to the extreme right in the third row are Elizabeth and Wilhelmine Purfeerst, the unmarried daughters of Charles Purfeerst's brother Carl Friedrich Hermann Purfürst, a.k.a. Herman Purfeerst and his wife Elisabeth Schmidt-Sherning of nearby Steele County, Minnesota. Most of the people in the photo are children (along with their respective spouses) or grandchildren of the aforementioned family elders; however, the handsome young man Adelard Purfeerst, in a late night phone call, identified Helen Sticha as "his girl friend". See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for more information on the Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. family. See the history of Steele County, Minnesota for information on the Herman Purfeerst family. Charles Ernest Purfeerst and Herman Purfeerst were the sons of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for more information on the parents. | |
![]() | Charles & Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. Descendants - 1934 This picture was taken at the 1934 family reunion. It shows the surviving descendant children of Charles and Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst amd their spouses. LEFT TO RIGHT: FRONT: * Charles Purfeerst, Jr with wife Margaret (nee Dauser) behind * David Purfeerst with wife Magdalena (nee Gatzke) behind * Earl Meyer, son of Rosa Ann (nee Purfeerst) Meyer, behind. Rosa's husband Mathius Meyer, deceased. * Harmon Purfeerst with wife Jennie (nee Johnson)behind. * William Purfeerst with wife Josephine (nee Kenney) behind. * Henry Purfeerst withg wife Josephine (nee Hanson) behind. See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for more information on the Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. family. Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. is the son of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for more information on the parents. | |
![]() | Charles & Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. Family - 1886. This picture was taken in 1884 in Rice County, Minnesota and shows the family of Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a. Charles Purfeerst and his wife Mary Jane Brown. LEFT TO RIGHT: STANDING: * Charles Ernest Purfeerst (Jr.) * Rosa Ann Purfeerst * Harmon Francis Purfeerst * David Ernst Purfeerst SEATED: * Henry Mark Purfeerst * Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst * William Frederick Purfeerst * Charles Ernest Purfeerst, (Sr.) See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for more information on the Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. family. Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. is the son of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for more information on the parents. | |
![]() | Charles & Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. Farm - 1950. This picture was taken about 1950 in Rice County, Minnesota. It is an aerial photo of the farm originally operated by Charles Ernest and Mary Jane (Brown) Purfeerst, Sr. and was the site of the family reunions held in 1934 and 1985 as depicted in the photo collection. The farm property has been continously owned by Purfeerst descendants and is currently managed by Charles Purfeerst's GreatGreatGrandson, James Mark Purfeerst and his wife Debra Kay (Tatge). See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for information on this family. | |
![]() | Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr - 1884. This picture was taken about 1884 in Rice County, Minnesota and shows Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a, Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for information on the Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. family. Charles Ernest Purfeerst is the son of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for more information on the parents. | |
![]() | Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr with sisters Ida & Paulina - 1885 This picture was taken in 1885 in Newark, New Jersey and shows Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr., a.k.a., Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst, with his sisters Ida (Purfurst) Strauch, a.k.a., Ida Francisca Purfürst (left) and Paulina (Purfurst) Muller, a.k.a., Christiana Paulina Purfürst (right), of Newark, New Jersey. Charles, Ida and Paulina were the children of Ernest Purfurst, a.k.a, Johann David Ernst Purfürst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See history of Rice County, Minnesota for information on Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr.. See history of Essex County, New Jersey for information on Ida Purfurst, Paulina Purfurst and their parents. | |
![]() | Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. - 1885. This picture was taken about 1885 and shows Karl Friedrich Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a, Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. See the history of Rice County, Minnesota for more information on Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. Charles Ernest Purfeerst, Sr. is the son of Johann David Ernst Purfürst, a.k.a., Ernest Purfurst and Christliebe Wilhelmine Seltmann. See the history of Essex County, New Jersey for information on the parents. |
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