Birth: 15 July 1858 (Muddlemow, Pommern, Preussen)

Baptism: 25 July 1858 (Zirkwitz Church, Muddlemow, Pommern,
              Preussen) - LDS Family History Library Film #1273109-110

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(Notations on back of photo by Olga Wangerin)


Click Here To See Photo Of Zirkwitz Church Today
(at the Heuer Family History Website)

Travelling To America: Just shy of his fifteenth birthday he left with his older brother Wilhelm to go to America. Their destination was Kansas, where their older sister Ulrike lived with her husband August Wangerin.


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Ship Manifest of the 'Ernst Moritz Arndt'

Picture and History of the 'Ernst Moritz Arndt'

Family: In 1967 Luise Tesch, John's niece, wrote of the family's experiences in Pommern in a letter to John's Granddaughter Candace Gutzman. In the letter Luise relates memories shared with her by her mother Bertha, who was John's older sister.


Original of Luise's Letter (German)


Translation of Luise's Letter (English)
(Tranlastion from German by Candace Gutzman;
Notations by Wilson Gutzman)

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Kansas and Western Frontier Years

Butte, Montana Years

Salmon, Idaho Years

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John Ernest Frederick Gutzman's Legacy