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Five
Pappe brothers were born between
1849 and 1860 in Stotternheim,
a small village near Erfurt in the German state of Thüringen,
which lies in the eastern region of the country, near Saxony.
Their parents were Gottfried Wilhelm Pappe from the village
of Töttleben and Johanna Catherina Heinemann from Rockhausen.
Albert,
Richard, and Johann Herman Pappe emigrated to America. Two of the five Pappe brothers, Otto
and Karl Pappe, remained in Germany. There were also two half sisters that
stayed in Germany and a brother who died in infancy –
the children of Gottfiried Pappe's first marriage to Sophie
Pokel. Church records show that Pappe families had lived in
the vicinity of Töttleben, near Erfurt, as early as 1700.
Johann Hermann Pappe,
born
in 1852, emigrated about 1870 and lived in Tazewell, Illinois
and Newton, Kansas then finally Alaska. In 1875 Herman Pappe
married Mary Drayer in Cass County, Illinois and they had
one son the next year. In 1885 he was listed in the Newton,
Kansas city directory as a confectioner. In 1903, at the age
of 51, John H. Pappe died in Alaska under mysterious circumstances
while traveling with his partner with whom
he had a filed a claim in a rich gold mining area near Rampart.
The the time of his death his two brothers were his only known
kin.
Albert Ludwig Pappe was born in 1854 and emigrated in 1872 at the age of 17. He
and his first wife, Helena Prettig, lived for many years in
Tazewell, Illinois, then moved with their children to Plattsmouth,
Nebraska in 1886, where Helen died in 1896. About 1904, after
the death of his second wife, Albert settled in Union, Oklahoma,
where he was married for a third time to Christine Beck and
had two more children. In all, Albert fathered 11 children,
5 of which survived to adulthood. He was a farmer all his
life.
Richard Pappe, born in 1860, immigrated in 1882 with his wife, Henrietta Mathilde
Louise Kornrumpf from Gross Lengden, near Göttingen.
They arrived in New York from Germany in 1882, sailing from
Antwerp on the Peter de Connick, stopping once in Denmark
to pick up passengers. Richard and Louise lived briefly in
Tazewell, Illinois, then in Pratt, Kansas for several years
before homesteading in Kingfisher, at the time of the Opening
of Oklahoma Territory in April, 1889. Richard and Louise had
11 children, 5 of which lived to adulthood. Richard apprenticed
as a baker in Germany but later branched out into saloons,
insurance, farm loans, and real estate businesses in Kingfisher
and Enid, Oklahoma.
Carl Arthur Pappe, born 1883, was the son of Karl Pappe in Leipzig. He immigrated in 1900 at the age of 19, arriving with his uncle Albert Ludwig Pappe at the end of Albert's
visit to Germany. Arthur lived for many years in Nebraska ,where he married, then moved to New Mexico about 1926. There he opened Pappe's Bakery and married for a second time. He died in 1931 at age 48, leaving behind a wife and newborn son.
Other Pappe relatives may also have emigrated. We welcome any information
that may help us identify which Pappes in America are related
to these lines. If you have information to share, please contact
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