Kleb from Germany to USA
My wife's side of the family has a branch with the family name Kleb the oldest member was John Kleb:
Funeral services for John Kleb, woh died at his home at 284 Mulberry street Sunday, will be held there this evening.They will be underthe direction of Teutonia Lodge No. 118, I.O.O.F., of which Mr. Kleb was a member.The body will be cremated at the Linden Crematory tomorrow.
Mr. Kleb came to this country and settled in Newark in 1884.He was a brother of the late Peter Kleb, and was engaged as a refiner of precious metals and gold colorer.Kleb was born in Hanan, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, October 31, 1830.He was the second oldest in a family of six sons and three daughters.The four brothers and three sisters who survived him live in Germany.When he was eighteen years old, Mr. Kleb took part in the short-lived revolution of 1848, which resulted in the late Carl Schurz being exiled to this country.Mr. Kleb received a bayonet thrust through his left leg in a skirmish near Baden.
Unlike many of those who revolted, Mr. Kleb was not made an exile, but he went to Holland about 1850.He represented a jewelry concern in the Netherlands for several years.Later he went back to Hanau, and was married there in 1857, and later engaged in business in Pforzheim, Germany.Seven children were born to the couple.In 1873 heremarried, Miss Sophie Bollet being the bride who survives him.Six childrenresulted from this marriage, and of the thirteen children six sons and three daughters are still living.
Besides Teutonia Lodge, Mr. Kleb belonged to Woodside Maennerchor, the Deutscher Pioneer Society, and the M.G. Aurora.
Other names in the Kleb tree are:Clara, Elsa, Emily, Frederick, Fredrick, Fredrick Wiliam, Hans, Henry, Herman, Leona, Lisa, Louis, Margeurite, Olga, Robert, Sophie, and Sylvia.
If we might match, please let me know.All of these individuals were in New Jersey in the 1800's to 1900's.
Ron