Talk:Oscar Neebe

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That's way too many subsections. Seriously, name ancestry? His marriages, in gory geneological detail? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kthejoker (talk • contribs)

''The following sections were removed by User:Kthejoker. I'm not sure that they should be restored, but I'm including them below for anyone who wants to glean further info from them...'' -- Mwanner | Talk 22:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Ancestry
The family surname is pronounced "knee-bee". The Neebes were originally French Huguenots who fled to Kassel, Germany.

Birth
Oscar was born in New York City and he had two siblings: Conrad Neebe (1842-?), who later moved to Boston and presumably died there; and Louis W. Neebe (1847-1911), who was born in Pennsylvania and died in Chicago on September 22, 1911. Louis married Lisette Fleig.

Education
Oscar went to school in Germany and returned to the United States in 1866, then moved to Chicago in 1875 where he worked as a tinsmith, and at other jobs. He worked as a cook on the boats that carried iron ore across the Great Lakes. Oscar William Neebe III said in 2005: "Oscar and Louis opened up a yeast business, and he visited the breweries and saw the deplorable conditions."

First marriage
Oscar married Meta (1855-1887) and had the following children: Oscar William Neebe II (1880-c1957) who married Emma; Charles Neebe (1883-?); Edward Neebe (1885-?); Lillie Neebe who married Charles Nitschke on September 14, 1892; and Nettie Neebe who married Wilhelm Behrens on April 11, 1896. Meta died on March 8, 1887.

Second marriage
Oscar married "Elise Hepp" or Regina Hepp (1866-1921) on July 12, 1893 and had the following children: Rudolph W. Neebe (1897-?); Walter H. Neebe (1899-1927) who died on October 25, 1927; and Elsie Neebe (1902-?). Regina may have been the caretaker for his children while he was in jail, she had emigrated in 1883 from Germany. Regina died on November 25, 1921. She was listed as "Elise Hepp" on their marriage certificate, but was listed as "Regina" in the census and on her death certificate.

Haymarket Square
He was not at the Haymarket rally, but was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned and released him in 1893, after he had served seven years of his fifteen year sentence. By 1900 Oscar was working as a saloonkeeper in Chicago, living with his second wife.

Marriage to Meta in 1873
I corrected the date of Oscar's first marriage: The source is: City of Philadelphia, Registration of Marriages, 1873, page 36. The name for the bride is "Anna M. Monsees." I take this to be Meta Neebe. It's certainly the same Oscar because it says he was 22 and born in New York. The ceremony took place at the German Reformed Church with John G. Wiehle officiating. --Robert Helms