The Ambergs' first appearance in records available to this researcher is the passenger list of the barque Virginia, boarded in Bremen, and bound for Baltimore, Maryland, in 1847.(1)(2) The family of travelers consisted of Johannes, farmer, age 45; Eva, his wife, age 48; and their children: Johannes, age 22; Theresia, age 20; Balthaser, age 18; Adam, age 16 (our subject); Conrad, age 14; and Heinrich, age 10. They brought with them on their journey five chests of belongings, and their country of origin is recorded as "Bieber". Bieber is situated within the region known as Hessen. The year 1847 falls between what we now refer to as the First and Second Reichs, or "realms", before the formation of the country we now know as Germany.
Adam can be found next in Portsmouth, a town on the Ohio River, and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, in the 1850 US Census.(3) The Ohio River separates the states of Kentucky and Ohio. Scioto County, which takes its name from the Wyandot term for "deer", was first settled by European-Americans about 1790, but the land was home to Native tribes at least as far back as 100 CE.
In 1850, Adam Amberg, age 19, resided in the household of one Henry Burtram, shoemaker, and Adam was also working as a shoemaker, perhaps apprenticed to Mr. Burtram. This researcher was unable to locate records for Adam's parents or any of his siblings in 1850 US Census records; however, in the 1860 US Census, Adam's mother, Eva, resides in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, with her son, John, and his (second) wife, Katherine, along with John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Theresa,(4); brother Henry (Heinrich), gardener, age 22, was also residing in Clay Township, with the Timmonds family.(5)
There is no further record of Adam's father, Johannes, or his brother, Balthaser, that this researcher was able to locate. His sister Theresa (Theresia), married Michael Goodman in Scioto County on December 27, 1849,(6) and Theresa's son, Henry Goodman, has a brief biographical mention in A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio.(7) Theresa and her family are well documented in Scioto County from the 1870 US Census through her demise in 1913.
Brother John (Johannes) married 1st Anna Hauberth (aka Haubert, Hubbard) on January 30, 1855 in Scioto County,(8) with whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, before Anna's demise in 1857. John married 2nd Katherine Schmidt on August 28, 1858 in Scioto County.(9) John and Katherine removed to West Lincoln Township in Logan County, Illinois, by the 1870 US Census, along with the family matriarch, Eva Amberg, and his household is fairly well documented from the 1870 US Census forward.(10)
Brothers Conrad and Henry remained in Scioto County, where Conrad married Mrs. Rhoda Ann Wilson Clark on March 20, 1858,(11) and Henry married 1st Mary Alice Norris on February 12, 1880,(12) and 2nd Elizabeth Chick on April 3, 1889.(13)
Adam, subject of this memorial biography, married Eliza Jane Winkler, daughter of John S and Clarissa Lamb Winkler, on March 31, 1863 in Lawrence, Ohio.(14) Together they had at least eight children, seven of whom were still living in 1900: Clara, Arthur, Henry, Harriett, Frank, Mary and Charles. The couple is well documented in the 1870 - 1900 US Censuses in Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, where Adam maintained his trade in the shoemaking and shoe repair business until his demise in 1902.
Daughter Clara married Benjamin Weinberg on February 5, 1891 in Hamilton County, Ohio,(15) and they had at least three children, Louise, Anna and Carl. Son Arthur married a widow with four children, Mary Ellen Allinder Hall, on February 14, 1917 in Putnam County, West Virginia.(16) He was a painter and a farmer, and also worked for the Railway Express Company, in West Virginia. Son Henry set out for the west coast, hiring himself out as a farm laborer and orchard worker, first in Washington State, and then later in California, where he passed away in 1953. Daughter Harriett married David Julius Hoskins, an insurance agent, and they removed to Chicago, where in time he managed the office. They later removed to Missouri, where David worked as a traveling furniture salesman, a line he continued with when they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Hattie passed away in 1927. Hattie and David had one son, Hugh Adam Hoskins, who passed away in California in 1987. Son Frank removed to Chicago with his mother and sisters Hattie and Mary. He worked as a clerk for a wholesale drug company. It does not appear that Frank ever married or had children. Daughter Mary resided with her sister and brother-in-law, David and Hattie Hoskins, in Chicago in 1910, along with their mother, Eliza, and brother, Frank. On April 24, 1910, she married elevator operator Richard Lawrence Lenz in Chicago. The couple had no children.
(1) "Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6L-7DKQ : 19 February 2021), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing Immigration, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publications M255, M596, and T844 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL film 417,387.
(2) Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1820-1897, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9X-T6RS : 16 March 2018), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing NARA microfilm publication M327 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 417,214.
(3) "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7Q-FHF : 21 December 2020), Adam Amburgh, Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
(4) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-MV5 : 18 February 2021), Eve Amburg in entry for John Amburg, 1860.
(5) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-96X : 18 February 2021), Henry Amburg in entry for Catharine Timmons, 1860.
(6) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDHM-NV4 : 19 June 2020), Theresia Amberg in entry for Michael Goodman, 1849.
(7) Evans, Nicholas W., A.M. A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio. Portsmouth, Nicholas W. Evans publisher, 1903.
(8) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-ZYC : 8 March 2021), John Amberg and Anna Hanberth, 30 Jan 1855; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, pg 15, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(9) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-X62 : 8 March 2021), John Ambury and Catherine Smith, 28 Aug 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 81, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(10) "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6HQ-DPX : 29 May 2021), Eva Amberg in entry for John Amberg, 1870.
(11) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-6BV : 8 March 2021), Conrad Amburg and Ann Clark, 20 Mar 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 71, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(12) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z89R-77N2 : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Mary A. Norris, 1880.
(13) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8MW-JPMM : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Elizabeth Chick, 1889.
(14) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD7N-WZF : 8 March 2021), Adam Amburg and Eliza Jane Winkler, 31 Mar 1863; citing Marriage, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, bk 8 p34, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(15) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZTM-73Y : 8 March 2021), Benjamin Weinberg and Clara Amberg, 05 Feb 1891; citing Marriage, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, vol 114, cn 629, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(16) West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZF-L4GL : 12 September 2020), Arthur O Amberg and Mary Hall, 14 Feb 1917; citing Marriage, West Virginia, United States, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm .
Adam can be found next in Portsmouth, a town on the Ohio River, and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, in the 1850 US Census.(3) The Ohio River separates the states of Kentucky and Ohio. Scioto County, which takes its name from the Wyandot term for "deer", was first settled by European-Americans about 1790, but the land was home to Native tribes at least as far back as 100 CE.
In 1850, Adam Amberg, age 19, resided in the household of one Henry Burtram, shoemaker, and Adam was also working as a shoemaker, perhaps apprenticed to Mr. Burtram. This researcher was unable to locate records for Adam's parents or any of his siblings in 1850 US Census records; however, in the 1860 US Census, Adam's mother, Eva, resides in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, with her son, John, and his (second) wife, Katherine, along with John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Theresa,(4); brother Henry (Heinrich), gardener, age 22, was also residing in Clay Township, with the Timmonds family.(5)
There is no further record of Adam's father, Johannes, or his brother, Balthaser, that this researcher was able to locate. His sister Theresa (Theresia), married Michael Goodman in Scioto County on December 27, 1849,(6) and Theresa's son, Henry Goodman, has a brief biographical mention in A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio.(7) Theresa and her family are well documented in Scioto County from the 1870 US Census through her demise in 1913.
Brother John (Johannes) married 1st Anna Hauberth (aka Haubert, Hubbard) on January 30, 1855 in Scioto County,(8) with whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, before Anna's demise in 1857. John married 2nd Katherine Schmidt on August 28, 1858 in Scioto County.(9) John and Katherine removed to West Lincoln Township in Logan County, Illinois, by the 1870 US Census, along with the family matriarch, Eva Amberg, and his household is fairly well documented from the 1870 US Census forward.(10)
Brothers Conrad and Henry remained in Scioto County, where Conrad married Mrs. Rhoda Ann Wilson Clark on March 20, 1858,(11) and Henry married 1st Mary Alice Norris on February 12, 1880,(12) and 2nd Elizabeth Chick on April 3, 1889.(13)
Adam, subject of this memorial biography, married Eliza Jane Winkler, daughter of John S and Clarissa Lamb Winkler, on March 31, 1863 in Lawrence, Ohio.(14) Together they had at least eight children, seven of whom were still living in 1900: Clara, Arthur, Henry, Harriett, Frank, Mary and Charles. The couple is well documented in the 1870 - 1900 US Censuses in Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, where Adam maintained his trade in the shoemaking and shoe repair business until his demise in 1902.
Daughter Clara married Benjamin Weinberg on February 5, 1891 in Hamilton County, Ohio,(15) and they had at least three children, Louise, Anna and Carl. Son Arthur married a widow with four children, Mary Ellen Allinder Hall, on February 14, 1917 in Putnam County, West Virginia.(16) He was a painter and a farmer, and also worked for the Railway Express Company, in West Virginia. Son Henry set out for the west coast, hiring himself out as a farm laborer and orchard worker, first in Washington State, and then later in California, where he passed away in 1953. Daughter Harriett married David Julius Hoskins, an insurance agent, and they removed to Chicago, where in time he managed the office. They later removed to Missouri, where David worked as a traveling furniture salesman, a line he continued with when they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Hattie passed away in 1927. Hattie and David had one son, Hugh Adam Hoskins, who passed away in California in 1987. Son Frank removed to Chicago with his mother and sisters Hattie and Mary. He worked as a clerk for a wholesale drug company. It does not appear that Frank ever married or had children. Daughter Mary resided with her sister and brother-in-law, David and Hattie Hoskins, in Chicago in 1910, along with their mother, Eliza, and brother, Frank. On April 24, 1910, she married elevator operator Richard Lawrence Lenz in Chicago. The couple had no children.
(1) "Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6L-7DKQ : 19 February 2021), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing Immigration, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publications M255, M596, and T844 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL film 417,387.
(2) Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1820-1897, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9X-T6RS : 16 March 2018), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing NARA microfilm publication M327 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 417,214.
(3) "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7Q-FHF : 21 December 2020), Adam Amburgh, Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
(4) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-MV5 : 18 February 2021), Eve Amburg in entry for John Amburg, 1860.
(5) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-96X : 18 February 2021), Henry Amburg in entry for Catharine Timmons, 1860.
(6) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDHM-NV4 : 19 June 2020), Theresia Amberg in entry for Michael Goodman, 1849.
(7) Evans, Nicholas W., A.M. A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio. Portsmouth, Nicholas W. Evans publisher, 1903.
(8) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-ZYC : 8 March 2021), John Amberg and Anna Hanberth, 30 Jan 1855; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, pg 15, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(9) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-X62 : 8 March 2021), John Ambury and Catherine Smith, 28 Aug 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 81, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(10) "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6HQ-DPX : 29 May 2021), Eva Amberg in entry for John Amberg, 1870.
(11) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-6BV : 8 March 2021), Conrad Amburg and Ann Clark, 20 Mar 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 71, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(12) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z89R-77N2 : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Mary A. Norris, 1880.
(13) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8MW-JPMM : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Elizabeth Chick, 1889.
(14) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD7N-WZF : 8 March 2021), Adam Amburg and Eliza Jane Winkler, 31 Mar 1863; citing Marriage, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, bk 8 p34, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(15) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZTM-73Y : 8 March 2021), Benjamin Weinberg and Clara Amberg, 05 Feb 1891; citing Marriage, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, vol 114, cn 629, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(16) West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZF-L4GL : 12 September 2020), Arthur O Amberg and Mary Hall, 14 Feb 1917; citing Marriage, West Virginia, United States, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm .
The Ambergs' first appearance in records available to this researcher is the passenger list of the barque Virginia, boarded in Bremen, and bound for Baltimore, Maryland, in 1847.(1)(2) The family of travelers consisted of Johannes, farmer, age 45; Eva, his wife, age 48; and their children: Johannes, age 22; Theresia, age 20; Balthaser, age 18; Adam, age 16 (our subject); Conrad, age 14; and Heinrich, age 10. They brought with them on their journey five chests of belongings, and their country of origin is recorded as "Bieber". Bieber is situated within the region known as Hessen. The year 1847 falls between what we now refer to as the First and Second Reichs, or "realms", before the formation of the country we now know as Germany.
Adam can be found next in Portsmouth, a town on the Ohio River, and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, in the 1850 US Census.(3) The Ohio River separates the states of Kentucky and Ohio. Scioto County, which takes its name from the Wyandot term for "deer", was first settled by European-Americans about 1790, but the land was home to Native tribes at least as far back as 100 CE.
In 1850, Adam Amberg, age 19, resided in the household of one Henry Burtram, shoemaker, and Adam was also working as a shoemaker, perhaps apprenticed to Mr. Burtram. This researcher was unable to locate records for Adam's parents or any of his siblings in 1850 US Census records; however, in the 1860 US Census, Adam's mother, Eva, resides in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, with her son, John, and his (second) wife, Katherine, along with John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Theresa,(4); brother Henry (Heinrich), gardener, age 22, was also residing in Clay Township, with the Timmonds family.(5)
There is no further record of Adam's father, Johannes, or his brother, Balthaser, that this researcher was able to locate. His sister Theresa (Theresia), married Michael Goodman in Scioto County on December 27, 1849,(6) and Theresa's son, Henry Goodman, has a brief biographical mention in A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio.(7) Theresa and her family are well documented in Scioto County from the 1870 US Census through her demise in 1913.
Brother John (Johannes) married 1st Anna Hauberth (aka Haubert, Hubbard) on January 30, 1855 in Scioto County,(8) with whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, before Anna's demise in 1857. John married 2nd Katherine Schmidt on August 28, 1858 in Scioto County.(9) John and Katherine removed to West Lincoln Township in Logan County, Illinois, by the 1870 US Census, along with the family matriarch, Eva Amberg, and his household is fairly well documented from the 1870 US Census forward.(10)
Brothers Conrad and Henry remained in Scioto County, where Conrad married Mrs. Rhoda Ann Wilson Clark on March 20, 1858,(11) and Henry married 1st Mary Alice Norris on February 12, 1880,(12) and 2nd Elizabeth Chick on April 3, 1889.(13)
Adam, subject of this memorial biography, married Eliza Jane Winkler, daughter of John S and Clarissa Lamb Winkler, on March 31, 1863 in Lawrence, Ohio.(14) Together they had at least eight children, seven of whom were still living in 1900: Clara, Arthur, Henry, Harriett, Frank, Mary and Charles. The couple is well documented in the 1870 - 1900 US Censuses in Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, where Adam maintained his trade in the shoemaking and shoe repair business until his demise in 1902.
Daughter Clara married Benjamin Weinberg on February 5, 1891 in Hamilton County, Ohio,(15) and they had at least three children, Louise, Anna and Carl. Son Arthur married a widow with four children, Mary Ellen Allinder Hall, on February 14, 1917 in Putnam County, West Virginia.(16) He was a painter and a farmer, and also worked for the Railway Express Company, in West Virginia. Son Henry set out for the west coast, hiring himself out as a farm laborer and orchard worker, first in Washington State, and then later in California, where he passed away in 1953. Daughter Harriett married David Julius Hoskins, an insurance agent, and they removed to Chicago, where in time he managed the office. They later removed to Missouri, where David worked as a traveling furniture salesman, a line he continued with when they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Hattie passed away in 1927. Hattie and David had one son, Hugh Adam Hoskins, who passed away in California in 1987. Son Frank removed to Chicago with his mother and sisters Hattie and Mary. He worked as a clerk for a wholesale drug company. It does not appear that Frank ever married or had children. Daughter Mary resided with her sister and brother-in-law, David and Hattie Hoskins, in Chicago in 1910, along with their mother, Eliza, and brother, Frank. On April 24, 1910, she married elevator operator Richard Lawrence Lenz in Chicago. The couple had no children.
(1) "Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6L-7DKQ : 19 February 2021), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing Immigration, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publications M255, M596, and T844 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL film 417,387.
(2) Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1820-1897, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9X-T6RS : 16 March 2018), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing NARA microfilm publication M327 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 417,214.
(3) "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7Q-FHF : 21 December 2020), Adam Amburgh, Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
(4) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-MV5 : 18 February 2021), Eve Amburg in entry for John Amburg, 1860.
(5) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-96X : 18 February 2021), Henry Amburg in entry for Catharine Timmons, 1860.
(6) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDHM-NV4 : 19 June 2020), Theresia Amberg in entry for Michael Goodman, 1849.
(7) Evans, Nicholas W., A.M. A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio. Portsmouth, Nicholas W. Evans publisher, 1903.
(8) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-ZYC : 8 March 2021), John Amberg and Anna Hanberth, 30 Jan 1855; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, pg 15, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(9) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-X62 : 8 March 2021), John Ambury and Catherine Smith, 28 Aug 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 81, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(10) "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6HQ-DPX : 29 May 2021), Eva Amberg in entry for John Amberg, 1870.
(11) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-6BV : 8 March 2021), Conrad Amburg and Ann Clark, 20 Mar 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 71, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(12) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z89R-77N2 : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Mary A. Norris, 1880.
(13) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8MW-JPMM : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Elizabeth Chick, 1889.
(14) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD7N-WZF : 8 March 2021), Adam Amburg and Eliza Jane Winkler, 31 Mar 1863; citing Marriage, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, bk 8 p34, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(15) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZTM-73Y : 8 March 2021), Benjamin Weinberg and Clara Amberg, 05 Feb 1891; citing Marriage, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, vol 114, cn 629, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(16) West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZF-L4GL : 12 September 2020), Arthur O Amberg and Mary Hall, 14 Feb 1917; citing Marriage, West Virginia, United States, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm .
Adam can be found next in Portsmouth, a town on the Ohio River, and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, in the 1850 US Census.(3) The Ohio River separates the states of Kentucky and Ohio. Scioto County, which takes its name from the Wyandot term for "deer", was first settled by European-Americans about 1790, but the land was home to Native tribes at least as far back as 100 CE.
In 1850, Adam Amberg, age 19, resided in the household of one Henry Burtram, shoemaker, and Adam was also working as a shoemaker, perhaps apprenticed to Mr. Burtram. This researcher was unable to locate records for Adam's parents or any of his siblings in 1850 US Census records; however, in the 1860 US Census, Adam's mother, Eva, resides in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, with her son, John, and his (second) wife, Katherine, along with John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Theresa,(4); brother Henry (Heinrich), gardener, age 22, was also residing in Clay Township, with the Timmonds family.(5)
There is no further record of Adam's father, Johannes, or his brother, Balthaser, that this researcher was able to locate. His sister Theresa (Theresia), married Michael Goodman in Scioto County on December 27, 1849,(6) and Theresa's son, Henry Goodman, has a brief biographical mention in A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio.(7) Theresa and her family are well documented in Scioto County from the 1870 US Census through her demise in 1913.
Brother John (Johannes) married 1st Anna Hauberth (aka Haubert, Hubbard) on January 30, 1855 in Scioto County,(8) with whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, before Anna's demise in 1857. John married 2nd Katherine Schmidt on August 28, 1858 in Scioto County.(9) John and Katherine removed to West Lincoln Township in Logan County, Illinois, by the 1870 US Census, along with the family matriarch, Eva Amberg, and his household is fairly well documented from the 1870 US Census forward.(10)
Brothers Conrad and Henry remained in Scioto County, where Conrad married Mrs. Rhoda Ann Wilson Clark on March 20, 1858,(11) and Henry married 1st Mary Alice Norris on February 12, 1880,(12) and 2nd Elizabeth Chick on April 3, 1889.(13)
Adam, subject of this memorial biography, married Eliza Jane Winkler, daughter of John S and Clarissa Lamb Winkler, on March 31, 1863 in Lawrence, Ohio.(14) Together they had at least eight children, seven of whom were still living in 1900: Clara, Arthur, Henry, Harriett, Frank, Mary and Charles. The couple is well documented in the 1870 - 1900 US Censuses in Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, where Adam maintained his trade in the shoemaking and shoe repair business until his demise in 1902.
Daughter Clara married Benjamin Weinberg on February 5, 1891 in Hamilton County, Ohio,(15) and they had at least three children, Louise, Anna and Carl. Son Arthur married a widow with four children, Mary Ellen Allinder Hall, on February 14, 1917 in Putnam County, West Virginia.(16) He was a painter and a farmer, and also worked for the Railway Express Company, in West Virginia. Son Henry set out for the west coast, hiring himself out as a farm laborer and orchard worker, first in Washington State, and then later in California, where he passed away in 1953. Daughter Harriett married David Julius Hoskins, an insurance agent, and they removed to Chicago, where in time he managed the office. They later removed to Missouri, where David worked as a traveling furniture salesman, a line he continued with when they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Hattie passed away in 1927. Hattie and David had one son, Hugh Adam Hoskins, who passed away in California in 1987. Son Frank removed to Chicago with his mother and sisters Hattie and Mary. He worked as a clerk for a wholesale drug company. It does not appear that Frank ever married or had children. Daughter Mary resided with her sister and brother-in-law, David and Hattie Hoskins, in Chicago in 1910, along with their mother, Eliza, and brother, Frank. On April 24, 1910, she married elevator operator Richard Lawrence Lenz in Chicago. The couple had no children.
(1) "Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6L-7DKQ : 19 February 2021), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing Immigration, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publications M255, M596, and T844 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL film 417,387.
(2) Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1820-1897, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9X-T6RS : 16 March 2018), Adam Amberg, 1847; citing NARA microfilm publication M327 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 417,214.
(3) "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7Q-FHF : 21 December 2020), Adam Amburgh, Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
(4) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-MV5 : 18 February 2021), Eve Amburg in entry for John Amburg, 1860.
(5) "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL4-96X : 18 February 2021), Henry Amburg in entry for Catharine Timmons, 1860.
(6) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDHM-NV4 : 19 June 2020), Theresia Amberg in entry for Michael Goodman, 1849.
(7) Evans, Nicholas W., A.M. A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio. Portsmouth, Nicholas W. Evans publisher, 1903.
(8) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-ZYC : 8 March 2021), John Amberg and Anna Hanberth, 30 Jan 1855; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, pg 15, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(9) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-X62 : 8 March 2021), John Ambury and Catherine Smith, 28 Aug 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 81, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(10) "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6HQ-DPX : 29 May 2021), Eva Amberg in entry for John Amberg, 1870.
(11) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDP2-6BV : 8 March 2021), Conrad Amburg and Ann Clark, 20 Mar 1858; citing Marriage, Scioto, Ohio, United States, p 71, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(12) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z89R-77N2 : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Mary A. Norris, 1880.
(13) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8MW-JPMM : 8 March 2021), Henry Amberg and Elizabeth Chick, 1889.
(14) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD7N-WZF : 8 March 2021), Adam Amburg and Eliza Jane Winkler, 31 Mar 1863; citing Marriage, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, bk 8 p34, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(15) "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZTM-73Y : 8 March 2021), Benjamin Weinberg and Clara Amberg, 05 Feb 1891; citing Marriage, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, vol 114, cn 629, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
(16) West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZF-L4GL : 12 September 2020), Arthur O Amberg and Mary Hall, 14 Feb 1917; citing Marriage, West Virginia, United States, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm .
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