Junghans family in Vincennes, Indiana

This photo was taken probably in the fall of 1911.



Front row: Otto Sr (or possibly brother Carl or Emil Yunghans) holding Lydia Junghans, and possibly wife Hulda*, unsure of the two women and boy in the middle and man on the right *

Back row: Otto Jr and Ella Junghans

*As I have either no or limited photos of the Yunghans family, it's difficult to determine everyone in the photo.

Gerhardt Junghans

Otto and Ella Junghans' second child, Gerhardt was born September 19, 1912 in Vincennes, Indiana.



I do not have a photo of Gerhardt in Vincennes, but the photo above is of the house that Otto Jr, wife Ella, and their children Lydia and Gerhardt lived in during their short time in Vincennes.

Lydia Junghans

Otto and Hulda Junghans' first grandchild was Lydia, born July 3, 1911 in Mequon Illinois to Otto Jr and Ella Junghans.


Sometime after Lydia was born, the family moved for a time to Vincennes, Indiana where Otto Jr's uncles Emil and Carl Yunghans were residing.


Here is a photo of Lydia taken in Vincennes, probably sometime in 1912.

E H Yunghans Cigars

My great grandfather Paul's older brother had moved from Germany to Indiana. I never knew anything about him until a couple of years ago when I was provided his family tree that I organized onto the spreadsheet I had started to create in 2005.

Other than family members mentioning a couple of the Junghans brothers had lived in Vincennes, Indiana and changed the spelling to Yunghans, the only document I'd seen was a reference in an obituary to a brother living in Vincennes. Once I was provided the names, I then came across Emil's passport application which was posted yesterday. Hopefully I'll locate more and post those as I find them.

I discovered this document a couple of days ago about the cigar company he owned in Indiana.





In spite of the misspellings of the name, these types of documents are invaluable for confirming information and opening the door to other avenues of research.

I came across this article from a book published in 1902, "Vincennes in Pictures and Story".