From Mt. Elliott Cemetery A History:
LINGEMAN, CASPAR, II
b. in the mid-1840s d. 6-20-1901.
Came to Detroit at age six, after leaving Germany with his father. He took over C. Lingeman & Co., an umbrella factory, when his father died in 1881. He moved the business from 26 Monroe Avenue to 231 Woodward Avenue. He turned the company into the largest manufacturing retailer in the West. In those days, fashionable women ordered parasols at C. Lingeman's immediately after selecting materials for their gowns. After he died, the business went to his son, Caspar III. He also had a son named Cyril, and four daughters.
Among his daughters was Sister Raymonda Marie Lingemann, who was born August 20, 1889 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan and died in 1983 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.
LINGEMAN, CASPAR, II
b. in the mid-1840s d. 6-20-1901.
Came to Detroit at age six, after leaving Germany with his father. He took over C. Lingeman & Co., an umbrella factory, when his father died in 1881. He moved the business from 26 Monroe Avenue to 231 Woodward Avenue. He turned the company into the largest manufacturing retailer in the West. In those days, fashionable women ordered parasols at C. Lingeman's immediately after selecting materials for their gowns. After he died, the business went to his son, Caspar III. He also had a son named Cyril, and four daughters.
Among his daughters was Sister Raymonda Marie Lingemann, who was born August 20, 1889 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan and died in 1983 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.
From Mt. Elliott Cemetery A History:
LINGEMAN, CASPAR, II
b. in the mid-1840s d. 6-20-1901.
Came to Detroit at age six, after leaving Germany with his father. He took over C. Lingeman & Co., an umbrella factory, when his father died in 1881. He moved the business from 26 Monroe Avenue to 231 Woodward Avenue. He turned the company into the largest manufacturing retailer in the West. In those days, fashionable women ordered parasols at C. Lingeman's immediately after selecting materials for their gowns. After he died, the business went to his son, Caspar III. He also had a son named Cyril, and four daughters.
Among his daughters was Sister Raymonda Marie Lingemann, who was born August 20, 1889 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan and died in 1983 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.
LINGEMAN, CASPAR, II
b. in the mid-1840s d. 6-20-1901.
Came to Detroit at age six, after leaving Germany with his father. He took over C. Lingeman & Co., an umbrella factory, when his father died in 1881. He moved the business from 26 Monroe Avenue to 231 Woodward Avenue. He turned the company into the largest manufacturing retailer in the West. In those days, fashionable women ordered parasols at C. Lingeman's immediately after selecting materials for their gowns. After he died, the business went to his son, Caspar III. He also had a son named Cyril, and four daughters.
Among his daughters was Sister Raymonda Marie Lingemann, who was born August 20, 1889 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan and died in 1983 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.
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