Johann Josef Adelhardt was born on April 9, 1858 in the village of Kugleau near the town of Waischenfeld in the Upper Franconian region of northern Bavaria. He was the son of Andreas and Margaretha Brendel Adelhardt.
Johann Adelhardt had married Anna Fiedler (from the nearby village of Hannberg) in 1886 (according to 1900 US Census) even though no record has been found of their wedding at the Waischenfeld parish church records at the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany. Johann and Anna emmigrated through the port of Hamburg and traveled by an ocean vessel called the Donau (which means Danube in German). The Adelhardts arrived at Sparrows Point port of entry in Baltimore Harbor on May 24, 1887, just one year after the Statue of Liberty had been erected in New York. On the passenger list of the Donau, Johann is listed as being a 29-year-old farmer and his accompanied by his 26-year-old wife, Anna. Family legend has it that Johann had a sister who also immigrated to Buffalo, New York. She and her husband did visit the Adelhardts in Baltimore once. Johann quickly began to use the English form of his name - John. John was a strong man with dark brown hair and a mustache. Anna was a tall, thin Franconian woman with light brown hair that she pulled back into a bun.
Life changed dramatically for them from the slow-paced agrarian existence of the rural village to the rapid competitiveness of the industrialized urban immigrant neighborhood of East Baltimore.
John got a job as a streetcar track repairer (paver) for the United Railway Company of Baltimore. He was active and worked hard. He would awake each morning at 5 am, eat breakfast and read the newspaper. He would leave home at 7 am and would ride the streetcar out to his job in Wallbrook. All day he would repair streetcar tracks. The tracks were laid, filled in with sand, and then he banged in cobblestones between them with a hammer. Sometimes John had to work overtime until 5pm or until 7 pm and then came home and had dinner and then went back for more hours. He worked there almost the rest of his life.
John and Anna Adelhardt raised four children in East Baltimore - Mary Pauline (1889, John Joseph Jr. (1892), George John (1894) and Barbara Elizabeth (1898).
John, Sr. became a citizen of the United States on October 1, 1894. According to his Certificate of Naturalization filed at the Criminal Court of Baltimore, John applied for citizenship in September 1892 with a renunciation of loyalty to the Emperor of Germany but without a standard oath of allegiance. After waiting the mandatory two years and fulfilling the mandatory five-year residency, John became an American citizen and automatically by marriage Anna did also.
John and Anna Adelhardt lived at 1614 St. Joseph Street in East Baltimore with their four children according to the 1900 Census. They attended Mass at the St. James Catholic Church for German nationals on Aisquith Street in the Old Town neighborhood. Their children went to the St. James School.
John would read the weekly German language newspaper in Baltimore called the Katholische Volkszeitung until it ceased publication in October 1914. As with most first generation Americans, the Adelhardt children were discouraged from learning the German language or culture and these things were only still shared between husband and wife.
During this time (around 1910) John and Anna Adelhardt moved their family from St. Joseph's Street to a rowhome at 1007 N. Washington Street. They lived here for decades to come as is confirmed in the 1920 Census records. They still continued to walk many more blocks further to attend Mass at the St. James Church, which still performed Masses in the German language until they were discontinued during World War I.
All of the Adelhardt children had to work jobs at a young age to support the family. This was a time that businesses in the United States took advantage of the cheap labor of poor children.
1913 was a very sad year for the Adelhardt family. Not only did they lose their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter but also lost another son. John had hemorrhaging from the stomach and died of tuberculosis according to the St. James funeral records. John Jr. died that November 3, 1913 at the age of 21. All were buried in the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery on Belair Road – Baltimore's main Catholic cemetery for German immigrants.
By March 1928, John had finally retired from the United Railway at age 69. George worried about his father without anything to keep him busy. One day about a month later, Anna came home from church and found all the doors of the house were locked. Anna climbed on her neighbors shed roof and over to their house and into a bedroom window. She found John lying on the floor where he had a stroke. John was found gravely ill at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon and lived until 3 o'clock in the morning. His funeral Mass was held at St. James and he was buried with his children at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Section P, Lot 19)next to his children.
Baltimore Sun - April 13, 1928
ADELHARDT - Suddenly on April 12, 1928, JOHN J., beloved husband of Anna D. Adelhardt (nee Fiedler). Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 1007 N. Washington Street on on Saturday, April 14th at 8 A.M. Requiem Mass at St. James Church at 9 A.M. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
Johann Adelhardt had married Anna Fiedler (from the nearby village of Hannberg) in 1886 (according to 1900 US Census) even though no record has been found of their wedding at the Waischenfeld parish church records at the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany. Johann and Anna emmigrated through the port of Hamburg and traveled by an ocean vessel called the Donau (which means Danube in German). The Adelhardts arrived at Sparrows Point port of entry in Baltimore Harbor on May 24, 1887, just one year after the Statue of Liberty had been erected in New York. On the passenger list of the Donau, Johann is listed as being a 29-year-old farmer and his accompanied by his 26-year-old wife, Anna. Family legend has it that Johann had a sister who also immigrated to Buffalo, New York. She and her husband did visit the Adelhardts in Baltimore once. Johann quickly began to use the English form of his name - John. John was a strong man with dark brown hair and a mustache. Anna was a tall, thin Franconian woman with light brown hair that she pulled back into a bun.
Life changed dramatically for them from the slow-paced agrarian existence of the rural village to the rapid competitiveness of the industrialized urban immigrant neighborhood of East Baltimore.
John got a job as a streetcar track repairer (paver) for the United Railway Company of Baltimore. He was active and worked hard. He would awake each morning at 5 am, eat breakfast and read the newspaper. He would leave home at 7 am and would ride the streetcar out to his job in Wallbrook. All day he would repair streetcar tracks. The tracks were laid, filled in with sand, and then he banged in cobblestones between them with a hammer. Sometimes John had to work overtime until 5pm or until 7 pm and then came home and had dinner and then went back for more hours. He worked there almost the rest of his life.
John and Anna Adelhardt raised four children in East Baltimore - Mary Pauline (1889, John Joseph Jr. (1892), George John (1894) and Barbara Elizabeth (1898).
John, Sr. became a citizen of the United States on October 1, 1894. According to his Certificate of Naturalization filed at the Criminal Court of Baltimore, John applied for citizenship in September 1892 with a renunciation of loyalty to the Emperor of Germany but without a standard oath of allegiance. After waiting the mandatory two years and fulfilling the mandatory five-year residency, John became an American citizen and automatically by marriage Anna did also.
John and Anna Adelhardt lived at 1614 St. Joseph Street in East Baltimore with their four children according to the 1900 Census. They attended Mass at the St. James Catholic Church for German nationals on Aisquith Street in the Old Town neighborhood. Their children went to the St. James School.
John would read the weekly German language newspaper in Baltimore called the Katholische Volkszeitung until it ceased publication in October 1914. As with most first generation Americans, the Adelhardt children were discouraged from learning the German language or culture and these things were only still shared between husband and wife.
During this time (around 1910) John and Anna Adelhardt moved their family from St. Joseph's Street to a rowhome at 1007 N. Washington Street. They lived here for decades to come as is confirmed in the 1920 Census records. They still continued to walk many more blocks further to attend Mass at the St. James Church, which still performed Masses in the German language until they were discontinued during World War I.
All of the Adelhardt children had to work jobs at a young age to support the family. This was a time that businesses in the United States took advantage of the cheap labor of poor children.
1913 was a very sad year for the Adelhardt family. Not only did they lose their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter but also lost another son. John had hemorrhaging from the stomach and died of tuberculosis according to the St. James funeral records. John Jr. died that November 3, 1913 at the age of 21. All were buried in the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery on Belair Road – Baltimore's main Catholic cemetery for German immigrants.
By March 1928, John had finally retired from the United Railway at age 69. George worried about his father without anything to keep him busy. One day about a month later, Anna came home from church and found all the doors of the house were locked. Anna climbed on her neighbors shed roof and over to their house and into a bedroom window. She found John lying on the floor where he had a stroke. John was found gravely ill at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon and lived until 3 o'clock in the morning. His funeral Mass was held at St. James and he was buried with his children at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Section P, Lot 19)next to his children.
Baltimore Sun - April 13, 1928
ADELHARDT - Suddenly on April 12, 1928, JOHN J., beloved husband of Anna D. Adelhardt (nee Fiedler). Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 1007 N. Washington Street on on Saturday, April 14th at 8 A.M. Requiem Mass at St. James Church at 9 A.M. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
Johann Josef Adelhardt was born on April 9, 1858 in the village of Kugleau near the town of Waischenfeld in the Upper Franconian region of northern Bavaria. He was the son of Andreas and Margaretha Brendel Adelhardt.
Johann Adelhardt had married Anna Fiedler (from the nearby village of Hannberg) in 1886 (according to 1900 US Census) even though no record has been found of their wedding at the Waischenfeld parish church records at the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany. Johann and Anna emmigrated through the port of Hamburg and traveled by an ocean vessel called the Donau (which means Danube in German). The Adelhardts arrived at Sparrows Point port of entry in Baltimore Harbor on May 24, 1887, just one year after the Statue of Liberty had been erected in New York. On the passenger list of the Donau, Johann is listed as being a 29-year-old farmer and his accompanied by his 26-year-old wife, Anna. Family legend has it that Johann had a sister who also immigrated to Buffalo, New York. She and her husband did visit the Adelhardts in Baltimore once. Johann quickly began to use the English form of his name - John. John was a strong man with dark brown hair and a mustache. Anna was a tall, thin Franconian woman with light brown hair that she pulled back into a bun.
Life changed dramatically for them from the slow-paced agrarian existence of the rural village to the rapid competitiveness of the industrialized urban immigrant neighborhood of East Baltimore.
John got a job as a streetcar track repairer (paver) for the United Railway Company of Baltimore. He was active and worked hard. He would awake each morning at 5 am, eat breakfast and read the newspaper. He would leave home at 7 am and would ride the streetcar out to his job in Wallbrook. All day he would repair streetcar tracks. The tracks were laid, filled in with sand, and then he banged in cobblestones between them with a hammer. Sometimes John had to work overtime until 5pm or until 7 pm and then came home and had dinner and then went back for more hours. He worked there almost the rest of his life.
John and Anna Adelhardt raised four children in East Baltimore - Mary Pauline (1889, John Joseph Jr. (1892), George John (1894) and Barbara Elizabeth (1898).
John, Sr. became a citizen of the United States on October 1, 1894. According to his Certificate of Naturalization filed at the Criminal Court of Baltimore, John applied for citizenship in September 1892 with a renunciation of loyalty to the Emperor of Germany but without a standard oath of allegiance. After waiting the mandatory two years and fulfilling the mandatory five-year residency, John became an American citizen and automatically by marriage Anna did also.
John and Anna Adelhardt lived at 1614 St. Joseph Street in East Baltimore with their four children according to the 1900 Census. They attended Mass at the St. James Catholic Church for German nationals on Aisquith Street in the Old Town neighborhood. Their children went to the St. James School.
John would read the weekly German language newspaper in Baltimore called the Katholische Volkszeitung until it ceased publication in October 1914. As with most first generation Americans, the Adelhardt children were discouraged from learning the German language or culture and these things were only still shared between husband and wife.
During this time (around 1910) John and Anna Adelhardt moved their family from St. Joseph's Street to a rowhome at 1007 N. Washington Street. They lived here for decades to come as is confirmed in the 1920 Census records. They still continued to walk many more blocks further to attend Mass at the St. James Church, which still performed Masses in the German language until they were discontinued during World War I.
All of the Adelhardt children had to work jobs at a young age to support the family. This was a time that businesses in the United States took advantage of the cheap labor of poor children.
1913 was a very sad year for the Adelhardt family. Not only did they lose their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter but also lost another son. John had hemorrhaging from the stomach and died of tuberculosis according to the St. James funeral records. John Jr. died that November 3, 1913 at the age of 21. All were buried in the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery on Belair Road – Baltimore's main Catholic cemetery for German immigrants.
By March 1928, John had finally retired from the United Railway at age 69. George worried about his father without anything to keep him busy. One day about a month later, Anna came home from church and found all the doors of the house were locked. Anna climbed on her neighbors shed roof and over to their house and into a bedroom window. She found John lying on the floor where he had a stroke. John was found gravely ill at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon and lived until 3 o'clock in the morning. His funeral Mass was held at St. James and he was buried with his children at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Section P, Lot 19)next to his children.
Baltimore Sun - April 13, 1928
ADELHARDT - Suddenly on April 12, 1928, JOHN J., beloved husband of Anna D. Adelhardt (nee Fiedler). Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 1007 N. Washington Street on on Saturday, April 14th at 8 A.M. Requiem Mass at St. James Church at 9 A.M. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
Johann Adelhardt had married Anna Fiedler (from the nearby village of Hannberg) in 1886 (according to 1900 US Census) even though no record has been found of their wedding at the Waischenfeld parish church records at the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany. Johann and Anna emmigrated through the port of Hamburg and traveled by an ocean vessel called the Donau (which means Danube in German). The Adelhardts arrived at Sparrows Point port of entry in Baltimore Harbor on May 24, 1887, just one year after the Statue of Liberty had been erected in New York. On the passenger list of the Donau, Johann is listed as being a 29-year-old farmer and his accompanied by his 26-year-old wife, Anna. Family legend has it that Johann had a sister who also immigrated to Buffalo, New York. She and her husband did visit the Adelhardts in Baltimore once. Johann quickly began to use the English form of his name - John. John was a strong man with dark brown hair and a mustache. Anna was a tall, thin Franconian woman with light brown hair that she pulled back into a bun.
Life changed dramatically for them from the slow-paced agrarian existence of the rural village to the rapid competitiveness of the industrialized urban immigrant neighborhood of East Baltimore.
John got a job as a streetcar track repairer (paver) for the United Railway Company of Baltimore. He was active and worked hard. He would awake each morning at 5 am, eat breakfast and read the newspaper. He would leave home at 7 am and would ride the streetcar out to his job in Wallbrook. All day he would repair streetcar tracks. The tracks were laid, filled in with sand, and then he banged in cobblestones between them with a hammer. Sometimes John had to work overtime until 5pm or until 7 pm and then came home and had dinner and then went back for more hours. He worked there almost the rest of his life.
John and Anna Adelhardt raised four children in East Baltimore - Mary Pauline (1889, John Joseph Jr. (1892), George John (1894) and Barbara Elizabeth (1898).
John, Sr. became a citizen of the United States on October 1, 1894. According to his Certificate of Naturalization filed at the Criminal Court of Baltimore, John applied for citizenship in September 1892 with a renunciation of loyalty to the Emperor of Germany but without a standard oath of allegiance. After waiting the mandatory two years and fulfilling the mandatory five-year residency, John became an American citizen and automatically by marriage Anna did also.
John and Anna Adelhardt lived at 1614 St. Joseph Street in East Baltimore with their four children according to the 1900 Census. They attended Mass at the St. James Catholic Church for German nationals on Aisquith Street in the Old Town neighborhood. Their children went to the St. James School.
John would read the weekly German language newspaper in Baltimore called the Katholische Volkszeitung until it ceased publication in October 1914. As with most first generation Americans, the Adelhardt children were discouraged from learning the German language or culture and these things were only still shared between husband and wife.
During this time (around 1910) John and Anna Adelhardt moved their family from St. Joseph's Street to a rowhome at 1007 N. Washington Street. They lived here for decades to come as is confirmed in the 1920 Census records. They still continued to walk many more blocks further to attend Mass at the St. James Church, which still performed Masses in the German language until they were discontinued during World War I.
All of the Adelhardt children had to work jobs at a young age to support the family. This was a time that businesses in the United States took advantage of the cheap labor of poor children.
1913 was a very sad year for the Adelhardt family. Not only did they lose their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter but also lost another son. John had hemorrhaging from the stomach and died of tuberculosis according to the St. James funeral records. John Jr. died that November 3, 1913 at the age of 21. All were buried in the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery on Belair Road – Baltimore's main Catholic cemetery for German immigrants.
By March 1928, John had finally retired from the United Railway at age 69. George worried about his father without anything to keep him busy. One day about a month later, Anna came home from church and found all the doors of the house were locked. Anna climbed on her neighbors shed roof and over to their house and into a bedroom window. She found John lying on the floor where he had a stroke. John was found gravely ill at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon and lived until 3 o'clock in the morning. His funeral Mass was held at St. James and he was buried with his children at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Section P, Lot 19)next to his children.
Baltimore Sun - April 13, 1928
ADELHARDT - Suddenly on April 12, 1928, JOHN J., beloved husband of Anna D. Adelhardt (nee Fiedler). Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 1007 N. Washington Street on on Saturday, April 14th at 8 A.M. Requiem Mass at St. James Church at 9 A.M. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
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