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JOSEPH MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK
Joseph Michael Gottschalk was just plain “Joe” around Lawrence, Pa., where he spent most of his life. He ended up living in the home of his Father, where he raised a family of ten children. There never was any fancy in his home, or in his life. He was a hard worker in the steel mills, employed 40 years in the Frank Keelang Plant of the United Engineering Co. They worked hard and were dirty and black, then came home and enjoyed a beer. That was their life. There was not much to distract from their life, except their children. He had a family of 10 children and he was close to them. One can guess how he understood them, or talked their language, when you heard the names he used to call them, instead of their Christian names. Here are some samples: “Tweedle,” “Bebble”, “Jinx”, and “Tump.” William Gottschalk "Willie" Gottschalk was what they called him in Schoenchen, KS. He was the third oldest of George Henry Gottschalk, and was born in Pittsburg, Pa., and was baptized in the St. Agnes Church; in West Mifflin, PA. He married Anna Munsch in 1900. Willie was always a farmer, and a very good one. He farmed 5 miles south east of Schoenchen. He also owned a house in Schoenchen, as did many of his people there, for Sundays, and winters. He was a very exact and meticulous farmer, making his children cultivate and plow the fields "just so." He raised 13 children, which was more or less the custom, besides that it was economically sound, because a large family meant good help with the farm work. He, as did his brothers, sang on the choir, and joined in with the Sunday "good times." Willie was on the board of directors of the Farmers Coop in his day, and took a great interest in the community farming projects. 3.
FAMILY OF WILLIAM GOTTSCHALK
FATHER: William Gottschalk June 5m 1877 to May 9, 1938
MOTHER: Anna Munsch May 17, 1882 to Jun 1, 1969
MARRIED: NOV. 13, 1900 AT Schoenchen, Kansas
CHILDREN: 329. Regis Gottschalk Mr. 30, 1902 to Aug. 2, 1958
330. Mary Gottschalk Dec. 28, 1903
331. Peter Gottschalk Apr. 18, 1906
332. Wendelin Gottschalk Nov. 1, 1907
333. Amelia Gottschalk May 30, 1909 to June 24, 1925
334. Bernadine Gottschalk Feb. 26, 1911
335. Marcus Aloysius Gottschalk Sept. 13, 1912
336. Bertha Gottschalk Nov. 24, 1914
337. Adolph Gottschalk Apr 19, 1917 (my uncle)
338. Rosa Gottschalk Apr 18, 19919
339. Martina Gottschalk Nov. 17, 1921
340. Louise Gottschalk Feb. 14, 1923
341. Vincent Gottschalk Feb. 6, 1925 to Jan. 30, 1937
First Generation
1. Philip Frederick
1 Gottschalk was born in Hortonville, NY December 17, 1882. Philip died December 1966 in Hankins, Sullivan Co., NY, at 83 years of age.
He married Edith St. John October 13, 1910. Edith was born in Fremont, Sullivan Co., NY March 13, 1888. Edith was the daughter of Berdine St. John and Helen Sarah Strain. Edith died July 1985 in Hankins, Sullivan Co., NY, at 97 years of age.
Philip Frederick Gottschalk and Edith St. John had the following children:
+ 2 i. Philip S.2 Gottschalk was born July 15, 1911.
+ 3 ii. Robert Bruce Gottschalk was born April 11, 1913.
+ 4 iii. James Joseph Gottschalk was born July 27, 1918.
Second Generation
2. Philip S.2 Gottschalk (Philip Frederick1) was born in Hankins, Sullivan Co., NY July 15, 1911.
He married Dorothy McGuire March 20, 1938. Dorothy was born in Calicoon, NY March 20, 1918.
Philip S. Gottschalk and Dorothy McGuire had the following child:
5 i. Lou Ann3 Gottschalk. She married Sigfried Kelting. Sigfried was born in Germany. (See Sigfried Kelting for the continuation of this line.) Living individual, details withheld
From "Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana," Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918, p. 866-869.
ANDREW GOTTSCHALK. Without doubt Andrew Gottschalk is one of the most widely known men of Adams County. His business and personal interests have been identified with the town of Berne almost from its establishment, and through his business and participation in business affairs he has been one of the constructive forces in the growth and development of that community. Mr. Gottschalk is a former county treasurer, and viewed from whatever angle his life presents many achievements which reject honor upon the name.
While he is himself a native of Indiana, he belongs to a long line of German ancestors of the Kingdom of Wuertemberg. A professor in a Pennsylvania college as a result of much research has established the fact that this branch of the Gottschalk’s has a continuous history in Wuertemberg for fully a thousand years. Mr. Gottschalk's grandfather Andrew was a tiller of the soil and spent all his life in Wuertemberg. The family was Lutherans. The grandfather had six children, three sons and three daughters. All of them came to the United States. The oldest was Jacob Gottschalk, who was born October 15, 1808. His first wife died in Germany, leaving two children, Barbara and Mary, the former now deceased, and the latter the widow of John Shigley, living at Berne. For his second wife Jacob Gottschalk married Christina Fox, who was also born in Wuertemberg. Their oldest child, George, was born in that country. In 1845 Jacob Gottschalk and his little family consisting of his wife, their one child and his two older children, set sail from Havre, France, and after ninety-three days on the ocean landed in New York City. They first located in Montgomery County, Ohio, where three other children were born. The oldest of these, Sarah, is now a widow, Mrs. Betzner, living in Miami County, Indiana. Michael is a resident of Wells County, Indiana, and has a family. John died after his marriage in Fulton County, Indiana, and left sons and daughters.
Towards the close of the decade of the '40s the Gottschalk family came over the rough roads and through the woods into Wells County, Indiana, locating on a farm in Nottingham Township, where the industry of Jacob Gottschalk cleared up about eighty acres. He lived there as an industrious and competent farmer until his death on January 26, 1877. His wife died in 1855. He was a democrat and both were active members of the Evangelical Association. Several other children were born to them after they moved to Wells County. Mathias is now a farmer in Miami County and is married and has a family. Jacob, Jr., died in childhood in Wells County. The next in age is Andrew. Fred R. lived for many years on the old homestead in Wells County, where he died January 26, 1907, just thirty years to the day after his father's death. He was then forty-nine years of age and left a family of children. Noah, the youngest child, still lives on a part of the old homestead in Wells County and is married and has a family. Mr. Andrew Gottschalk was born on a farm in Nottingham Township of Wells County, November 13, 1850. He was only five years old when his mother died. His father afterwards married Mrs. Elizabeth Walters Shepherd. She was a native of Germany and by her first marriage had two sons and by her marriage to Jacob Gottschalk was the mother of five. One of these second children, Amanda, now makes her home with Mr. Andrew Gottschalk.
Andrew Gottschalk grew up on his father's farm was educated in the district and private schools of his native county and his first occupation away from the farm was teaching in his home township. He followed that occupation for about two years. Besides the local schools he attended a normal school at Bluffton.
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