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BIOGRAPHY:
Prior to her marriage Philomena Singer Schweinberg worked as a bookkeeper at the McKeown Furniture Store in Braddock. One of her coworkers there was a 16 year old stock-boy named Charles M. Schwab, who later became a financier and President of U.S. Steel.

Philomena married Louis Leo Schweinberg on 24 Nov 1896 in St. Joseph Church, Braddock Hills, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Louis was born on 14 Dec 1875 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; was christened on 25 Dec 1875 in St. Thomas Church, Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 8 Aug 1962 in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, USA; was buried in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Louis Paul Schweinberg was born on 29 Aug 1897 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 21 Nov 1963 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Peters Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA.
2. Mary Mildred Schweinberg was born on 20 Mar 1899 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 8 Aug 1972 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.
3. Magdalena Schweinberg was born on 25 Feb 1901 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 25 Feb 1901 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
4. Philomena Bernadette Schweinberg was born on 6 Mar 1902 in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 30 Jan 2000 in Ocala, Marion County, Florida, USA.
5. Irene Isabella Schweinberg was born on 23 Aug 1904 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 14 Jun 1906 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
6. Catherine Antoinette Schweinberg was born on 25 Sep 1906 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 9 May 1996 in Prince Frederick, Calvert County, Maryland, USA.
7. Regis Francis Schweinberg was born on 12 Feb 1909 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 18 Dec 1994 in Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA.
8. Beatrice Leona Schweinberg was born on 11 Apr 1911 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 23 Jan 2000 in Flower Mound, Denton County, Texas, USA.
9. John Aloysius Schweinberg was born on 10 Dec 1912 in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 18 Jan 2005 in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
10. Joseph Clement Schweinberg was born on 27 Aug 1915 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 10 Apr 1958 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 14 Apr 1958 in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

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BIOGRAPHY: The Many Branches and Limbs of the WHITELEY Family
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In 1870, 20 year old Sebastian Singer lived and worked on his parents' farm in Jefferson Twp., Noble County, Ohio with four of his siblings.In 1880, 30 year old farmer Sebastian Singer lived in Enoch Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his wife Mary Ann (25) and children Philomenia (5), Ablona (4), Isabel (2) and Felix (9 mos.). None of the children were old enough to attend school. Adjacent farms in the census belonged to Casper Schafer and William Merry.Dolores Snider states that the family moved from Noble Co., OH to Monroe Co., OH after 1882. They subsequently moved to Allegheny Co., PA.By the time of the 1900 census, Sebastian Singer (50) and his wife Anna (43) rented a residence at 140 Camp Ave., Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where they lived with their children Felix (20), Marie (18), Clemens 16), Catherine (11) and Harry J. (7). The youngest two children attended school. Sebastian was employed as a day laborer. The Singers were one of six families living at that address.Sebastian was known as "Bass." In North Braddock, the local polling place was at the firehouse. On voting day, Bass' friends and relatives would convince him that he needed to announce the opening and closing of the polls. (This, of course, is not the case. There is no such requirement.) Bass would stand outside the firehouse and yell at the top of his lungs, "Dese here polls is now open!!!" and "Dese here polls is now closed!!!" (source: Sebastian Singer's nephew, Edward L. Schweinberg)

Sebastian married Anna Mary Burkhart on 14 Jan 1874 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. Anna (daughter of David Theobald Burkhart and Katharina Eva Fauth) was born on 28 Jul 1853 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 2 Dec 1921 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Franz Jacob Singer immigrated with his family to the United States in April 1843 on board the packet ship La Duchesse d?Orleans. Jacob and Magdelena already had three children, and Magdelena was pregnant with a fourth child when they left for America. While attempting to board ship in Le Havre, France, they were delayed because of a question regarding their origin and citizenship. (In 1843 "Germany" did not exist, as we know it now. It was a conglomeration of independent states.) As a result of the postponement of the family's travel plans, and Magdelena's advancing pregnancy, Jacob and Magdelena's daughter Catherine was born during the Atlantic crossing on 20 Mar 1843. Fellow passengers took up a collection and presented the Singers with the equivalent of about $200 to celebrate Catherine's birth. La Duchesse d'Orleans arrived in New York on 22 Apr 1843. The route by which the family traveled to Ohio is not known, but Jacob Singer eventually brought his family to Monroe County, Ohio. He used the $200 given to him by his fellow passengers along with other money to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of land in what is now Lewisville, Ohio on Willis Creek. He turned this area into a prosperous farm.
Despi te its name, the Duchesse d'Orleans was an American ship, according to Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 286. She was built in New York in 1838 by Webb & Allen, and from 1838 to 1852 belonged of the Havre Union Packet Line, and belonged to the Baltimore registry in 1866. Her measurements were as follows:
ton nage: 798 (old custom house measurement)
length: 155' 6"
beam: 34' 2"
depth of hold: 20' 6"

The master, from 1838 to 1849, was Addison Richardson (d. Brooklyn 1872). Ibid., p. 340. The Duchesse d?Orleans was still in service as late as 1891. White, James Terry, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time (J.T. White, 1895), vol. 2, p. 263.

Gi ven that La Duchesse d'Orleans is described as a "ship", it is important to recall the distinction between sloops, schooners, brigs and ships. The sloop, which was generally the smallest type, had a single mast, supporting a large fore-and-aft sail. The schooner likewise had fore-and-aft sails, generally with two masts but occasionally, even then, with three. The brig had two masts, but was square-rigged; that is, each mast supported several sails, which crossed from side to side of the vessel instead of lying fore-and-aft. Finally, the full-rigged ship had three masts, all of which were square-rigged. The nautical purists are careful not to use the word "ship" as a synonym for vessel, when brigs or schooners might be included in the term. A fifth type, the bark, began to be common in the 'thirties [1830's]. It had three masts, the first two of which were square-rigged and the third fore-and-aft. In size, it usually fitted in between the brig and the ship. On the whole, the relative size of the four main classes ran up-wards from the sloop through the schooner and brig to the ship. There was considerable overlapping, however, for the largest vessels in a lower category were generally of greater tonnage than the smallest in the next higher grade. Albion, p. 13.

A "packet" does not represent a "type" of vessel, but its function ? i.e., a vessel that sails a set course on a regular schedule. In this
respect the packet differs from the "transient" or "tramp" (which picks
up cargoes wherever it can find them and carries them to whatever port business at the moment directs, with no set course of predetermined schedule) and from the "regular trader" (which limit itself to trade between two or more particular ports, but follows no fixed schedule). In order to maintain a regular schedule, more than one ship (all true packets were full-rigged ships) was required, and packets were organized into "lines" (the origin of the term "liner"); the earliest true line was the "Black Ball" line between New York and Liverpool, and the first sailings took place in January 1818. The Havre Union Line, to which the Duchesse d'Orleans belonged, was initiated in 1823.

Franz married Maria Magdalena Zwick on 2 Oct 1834 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern. Maria (daughter of Franz Zwick and Margaretha Erhard) was born on 9 Jun 1815 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz; died on 2 Jan 1896 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Katharina Eva Fauth about 1848 in Ohio, USA. Katharina was born on 12 Sep 1823 in Preußen; died in 1904 in Jefferson, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Apollonia Schantz about 1795. Apollonia (daughter of Michael Schantz and Maria Anna de Borzell Debortzel) was born on 5 Oct 1774 in Erlenbach bei Dahn, Pfalz; died on 26 Jul 1834 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franz married Margaretha Erhard on 9 Feb 1807 in Dahn, Pfalz. Margaretha (daughter of Johannes Georg Ehrhard and Katharina Dauenhauer) was born on 3 Mar 1784 in Erfweiler, Pfalz; was christened on 3 Mar 1784 in Erfweiler, Pfalz; died on 30 Apr 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]