Gerson Friedenheit

Gerson Friedenheit has Jewish Roots.Gerson Friedenheit has German Roots.Private Gerson Friedenheit served in the United States Civil War.Enlisted: Aug 28, 1861Mustered out: Oct 10, 1861Side: USA Regiment(s): 25th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri MilitiaGerson Friedenheit was born in Bavaria in 1833 and immigrated to the United States as a young man. His death record identified his parents as Isaac Friedenheit and Fanny Fradella. The 1900 U.S. Census record shows that he immigrated in 1850. He married Fannie Winklein in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on 16 February 1859. Family tradition recounted by Ann Sunstein and Annie Jacobs indicates that they were the second couple married in the Reformed Jewish religion in the USA, in the temple founded by Rabbi Wise, who performed the ceremony." This is a reference to Rabbi Isaac Mayer (Weis) Wise (1819-1900), who is regarded as the founder of Reformed Judaism in America. He took up the position of rabbi for Congregation B'nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati in 1854 and introduced a number of Reformed practices there, so it is very unlikely that the marriage of Fannie and Gerson in 1859 was only the second one performed there. Gerson Friedenheit and Fannie Winklein obtained their marriage license in Hamilton County, Ohio, on 15 February 1859. The public record does not include the customary "return of marriage" record confirming that the marriage was performed; this is also missing from a number of other Hamilton County marriage license records from the same time period. From Ann Sunstein: Gerson came from Germany as a young man and worked in stores (not unlike his future son-in-law, Morris). He later brought his widowed mother over. Gerson was considered very handsome, as well as a good family man.Though never wealthy, one son, Isaac, became a member of the Jewish Harmonic Club.From Annie Jacobs:

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