Helen Wolff Out Takes November 6, 2023(July 27, 1906 – March 28, 1994) Publisher and linguist, Helen Wolff was born Helen Mosel in Üsküb, the Turkish...
William Wendt Out Takes August 31, 2023(February 20, 1865 – December 29, 1946) A landscape painter known as the dean of the Southern California landscape painters;...
Bertha Berner Out Takes August 31, 2023(June 12, 1861 – March 11, 1945) Best known as the private secretary and companion to philanthropist Jane Stanford, and...
Wilhelm Albert Potthast (1862 – 1935) &Potthast Brothers Furniture Company (1892 – 1975) Out Takes February 28, 2023Born into a large family of cabinet makers, Wilhelm (later anglicized to William) and three of his brothers immigrated to...
Bernhard Eduard Fernow(January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) Out Takes February 28, 2023A trained forester who led the U.S. Division of Forestry and started the first four-year forestry education program in the...
Franziska Marie Boas (January 8, 1902 – December 22, 1988) Out Takes January 27, 2023pher, percussionist, and a pioneer in the field of dance therapy, Franziska was the daughter of the famed German-American anthropologist...
Charles August Fey (February 2, 1862 – November 4, 1944) Out Takes January 27, 2023An innovator in the field of slot machines, Charles was born Augustinus Josephus Fey in Vöhringen, Bavaria, the youngest of...
Theodore Wirth(January 15, 1863 – January 29, 1949) Out Takes November 17, 2022Best known for being the Superintendent of the Minneapolis Park system from 1906-1935, Wirth spent his life in horticulture and...
Yesteryears Out Takes January 4, 2022Ida Saxton McKinley (June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907)Wife of President William McKinley and thus First Lady from 1897-1901,...
Yesteryears Out Takes November 9, 2021Eric Carle (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021)Beloved children’s author and illustrator, Eric Carle’s life as a German-American spans...
