Genealogy for
Robert Casper Kalthoff
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Robert Casper Kalthoff
1866 - 1966
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Robert Casper Kalthoff was born about 1866 somewhere in Connecticut and died in an unknown year in an unknown place. Dates for birth and death are estimated.
Robert and Matilda had five children:
Matilda G (daughter, 1891),
Antoinette D (daughter, 1892),
Loyola Elizabeth(daughter, 1895),
Robert (son, 1897), and
Edger (son, 1902).
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 | Census | 6/27/1870 | Detroit Ward 9 MI (Wayne County) | 4 yrs old | | Recorded as dwelling #1012, family #984: August Kalthoff (age 40),
Dora (age 31),
Mary (7),
Robert (4),
Matthew (6 months), and
Micheal Bullen (age 14).
August is a grocer and estimates the value of his personal estate to be $700. August, Dora, and Mary were born in Prussia. Robert was born in New York and everyone else was born in Michigan. Mary has been attending school. No one in the household can read or write. |
| Census | 7/14/1870 | Detroit Ward 7 MI (Wayne County) | 4 yrs old | | Recorded as dwelling #111411, family #1185: Augustus Kalthoff (age 40),
Doroden (wife, age 30)
Maria (daughter, age 7), and
Robert (son, age 4).
Augustus is a laborer and estimates the value of his personal estate to be $800. Augustus, Doroden and Maria were born in Prussia. Robert was born in Connecticut. No one in the household can read or write. They live next door to a retired grocer. |
| Census | 6/28/1880 | Hamtramck MI (Wayne County) | 14 yrs old | Recorded in dwelling #391, family #404: August Kalthoff (age 54)
Dorothea (age 42),
Mary (age 17),
Robert (14),
Elizbeth (6),
Terrese (3),
Dorothea (9 months), and
Casper Volkenrath (father [???], age 50).
August is working in a grocery and Casper is working as a peddler.
Casper is a widower. All who are 17 years old or older were born in Germany and those younger were born in Michigan. Elizbeth has been attending school and no one in the household can read or write.
The family of Antony Cramer (age 31) is living next door.
NOTE: The June 5, 1865 New York Passenger lists Casper Volkenrath (age 35) and T. Volkenrath (female, age 54). They were traveling from Germany to the United States with A. Kramer (female, age 18) and G. Kramer (male, age 7). Casper's age makes it impossible for him to be the father of August as stated on this census report. |
| Census | 6/8/1900 | Detroit ward 17 MI (Wayne County) | 34 yrs old | | Dwelling number 167; Family Number 170:
Robert C Kalthoff (age 34, Aug 1865),
Mathilda Kalthoff (age 32, Dec 1867),
Mathilda G Kalthoff (age 9, Aug 1890),
Anthonette D Kalthoff (age 8, Dec 1891),
Loyola E Kalthoff (age 5, May 1895),
Robert A Kalthoff (age 3, Jan 1897), and
Frank Engel (age 34, Jan 1866, Boarder).
Robert and Mathilda have been married for 10 years and have had 4 children and they are all surviving. Robert was born in Conneticut, Mathilda in Michigan, their parents were all born in Germany. All of Robert and Mathilda's children were born in Michigan. Robert is working as a Grocer, and the two oldest children are in school the adults can read, write, and speak English. They are Renting a house.
Frank Engel, was Born in Michigan and his parents were born in Germany. He is working as a Grocery Clerk and has been unemployed for 3 months, he can read, write, and speak English. He is a Boarder in the Kalthoff house. |
| Census | 4/25/1910 | Detroit Ward 17 MI (Wayne County) | 44 yrs old | | Recorded as dwelling #2396, family #321: Robert Kalthoff (age 43),
Matilda (wife, age 42),
Matilda G (daughter, age 19),
Antoinette D (daughter, age 18),
Loyola (daughter, age 14),
Robert (son, age 13), and
Edger (son, age 8).
Miltilda has given birth to five children and all are living.
Robert (senior) was born in Connecticut and his parents in Germany. Matilda was born in Michigan and her parents in Germany.
All of the children were born in Michigan. Robert (senior) is working as a sales & helper at a grocery. Matilda G. is a music teacher. Antoinette is working in the grocery as a saleslady. Everyone except the youngest son can read and write. The three youngest children have been attending school. |
| Census | 1/5/1920 | Detroit MI (Wayne County) | 54 yrs old | | Recorded as family #1566: Robert Kalthoff (age 52),
Matilda (age 52),
Antoinette (age 27),
Robert (age 22), and
Edgar (age 17).
The family lives in a house they own and it is free of any loans or mortgages. Robert (senior) was born in Connecticut and both of his parents were born in Germany. Mathilda was born in Michigan and both of her parents were born in Germany. Both of their parents spoke German as their native language. All of the children were born in Michigan. Robert senior and junior are working as a retail confectionary in the family own store. Antoinette is a violinist currently providing violin lessons. |
| Census | 4/24/1930 | Detroit MI (Wayne County) | 64 yrs old | | Recorded as dwelling #3468: Robert C. Kalthoff (age 61),
Matilda (wife, age 60), and
Edgar M (son, age 27). Robert owns his house and the family also owns a radio. He estimates the value of his estate to be $15,000. All three can read and write. Robert and his parents were born in Connecticut. Miltida and her parents were born in Michigan. Edgar was born in Michigan. Both Robert and Edgar are working as salesmen at a hardware store.
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| 3 |
1869 |
Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France |
| 11 |
1877 |
Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed. |
| 13 |
1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
| 23 |
1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 29 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 31 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 34 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 34 |
1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
| 35 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 36 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 37 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 38 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 40 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 40 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 40 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 46 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 47 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 48 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
| 57 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
| 57 |
1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
| 58 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
| 60 |
1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
| 61 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 62 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 70 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 72 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 80 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 81 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 85 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
| 86 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
| 91 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 94 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
| 96 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
| 99 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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| 16 |
1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
| 19 |
1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
| 42 |
1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
| 46 |
1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 47 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 51 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
| 53 |
1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 72 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 73 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 75 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 84 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
| 89 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
| 94 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
| 97 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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| 2 |
1868 |
An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees. |
| 9 |
1875 |
Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law. |
| 10 |
1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
| 43 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 44 |
1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
| 61 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 63 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 64 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 66 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 67 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
| 68 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 68 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 69 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 73 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 77 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 78 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 79 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 88 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
| 96 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
| 100 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
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| 43 |
1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 48 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 51 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 53 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 54 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 72 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 73 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 79 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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| Matilda Michels
Born on December 20, 1867 and died about 1968.
They were married 9/24/1889.
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The Children of Robert Casper Kalthoff
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Loyola Elizabeth Kalthoff
Born somewhere in Michigan on an unknown day in May 1895 and died somewhere in Michigan on an unknown day in May 1995. Actual dates are unknown and those shown are estimated.
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Edgar Nicholas Kalthoff
Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 2, 1901 and died in Wayne County, Michigan on October 4, 1987. He was 86 years old.
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