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Karen Abel:
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Occupation: driver for Yegen Dairy Company 1938 Bismarck, ND
BISMARCK HIGH HERALD
10 Feb 1933, p. 4: "In Miss Lambertus' grammar class, Harry Weisenberger was called on to go to the board to demonstrate the use of the pronoun. He wrote - 'I won't cost much.' Half way to his seat Harry turned around amid the merriment of his fellow classmates and realizing his mistake returned quickly to the board and put a 't' after the 'I'."
29 Sep 1933, p. 4: "Harry Weisenburger broke his leg in an automobile accident July 13. He was in the Bismarck hospital for a month but is attending school now."
FAMILY HISTORY
In 2000, Wilma Weisenburger shared a work in progress entitled "Gramps Remembers (or Harry told me)" which is a history of the Harry Weisenburger family. Following are excerpts from the third chapter, "Growing up in Bismarck, North Dakota 1915-1938":
"Harry's father, Philip Weisenburger, built a seven-room house in Bismarck, ND, for his family. He built another house adjacent to it which provided rental income. As his family grew, his father built a larger house over the original home. The family continued to live in the seven rooms while construction was going on. The enlarged home had 41 windows. Much of the work was done at night so that Harry and his siblings could hold a light, giving Philip better visibility. Philip was a good carpenter, an electrician, a plumber and was able to read blue prints. Harry says he could build a house from 'the ground up.'
"His mother, Frieda, was energetic and enterprising as well. Besides having given birth to 12 children, she worked as a cleaning woman in office buildings and homes in Bismarck, taking some of her children with her to help. Harry remembers that he helped clean the Christian Science Reading Room and a doctor's office. His mother also brought laundry home to do for other folk. He recalls that his brother, Johnny, became quite good at ironing. During the times when money was scarce, some of the wealthier families gave his mother good used clothing for use for her growing family. Harry doesn't remember a time when his family was 'deprived.'
"His father and mother were German Baptists..He says there is no group as Baptist as German Baptists..His grandfather, Jacob Schweigert, lived with his wife, Katharina Harr Schweigert, in Bismarck also. If he happened to drop by the Weisenburger home and saw a deck of cards around, he would throw the cards in the fire. To him, playing cards was a sin. His wife and the Harr family were Lutherans. Katharina Harr played the accordion and played for dances in Russia. Dancing was thought to be a sin by German Baptists so that when she married Jacob Schweigert she gave up playing the accordion and also joined the German Baptist Church. [NOTE: the blosbalgle was a small accordion that was a popular instrument at dances; it cost about 30 rubles.]
"The church services attended by Harry's family were in German. The children went to school on Saturday to learn German so that they could participate in the church service. Prejudice ran so high during World War I that German classes for children were stopped..Harry's grandfather, Jacob, sold advertising for a German newspaper published in Bismarck. When he was in the hospital dying of prostate cance, Harry sat by his bedside at times.
"He remembers that his parents sent packages of clothes and food to some of his father's relatives in Siberia. When his father no longer heard from Siberia, the relatives were presumed dead, so they stopped sending 'care' packages..
"He says the location of Bismarck on the Northern Pacific Railroad brought many events that would not have been available to residents otherwise--Bismarck was a 'stopover.' The largest circus of its day, 'The One O One Ranch', came to Bismarck when Harry was about nine years old. He got a job helping to set up tents, etc., for a free pass to the circus. When he returned in the evening with his pass to see the show, he was told that someone else had already been admitted with his pass. Fortunately, the man with whom he had worked identified him and he was allowed in. He discovered later that his brother, Henry, had duplicated his pass and used it earlier.
"If Harry loitered on the way home from school to play and realized he would be questioned conceerning his whereabouts, he would stop by his grandmother Schweigert's, who always gave him a warm welcome and kept lemon drops on hand just for him. (He still likes lemon drops.) He sometimes helped her mop the kitchen or he might make an 'English Cake' for her using Swansdown flour. At any rate, when he reached home and was questioned about the lateness of his arrival, when he said he had been 'at Grandma's' it was all right..
"While in high school, Harry had a job shoveling snow on the sidewalks around the high school under one of President Roosevelt's Youth Corps programs. During the summer, he worked for a dairy in Bismarck delivering milk. It was his second summer working for Yegen's Dairy that the milk truck in which he was riding was involved in an accident with another vehicle. It overturned and Harry was thrown from the passenger side. The truck and its contents fell on top of him. Fortunately, most of the milk had been delivered and the milk crates were of heavy wire sectioned off. His life was saved by a milk crate propping up the load. He was dragged from the wreckage, having sustained a dislocated left hip and a broken right leg below the knee. Again, fortunately, North Dakota was one of the first states to have Worker's Compensation so his hospital and medical bills were paid in full. His father, Philip Weisenburger, was hospitalized at the same time as Harry from injuries sustained in an automobile accident caused by a drunken driver.
"..after graduation from Bismarck High School, Harry enrolled at North Dakota State College at Fargo. He chose Animal Husbandry as his major. His brother, Henry, had instructed him in some of the finer points of cribbage and poker. College was a good place to put into practice his skills. At any rate, he dropped out of college before the end of the first term.
"His family home in Bismarck was near the hospital. Cousins and friends who were nurses, or in training, were often in and out of the Weisenburger house. Among this group was a beautiful girl from Golden Valley, ND, by the name of Erna Weigum."
BISMARCK CITY DIRECTORY
Harry is found in the 1938-39 directory as a driver for the Yegen Dairy Co. and living at his parents' home.
SAN JOSE CITY DIRECTORIES
Harry can be found as follows:
1940 laborer, living at 759 1/2 Coleman Ave.
1941 salesman for Singer Sewing Machine Co., living at 190 N. 31st
1943 electrician
OBITUARY
From the San Francisco Chronicle of March 21, 2002:
"Weisenburger, Harry---Age 86. On March 15 in Burlingame. Loving husband of Wilma Adams Weisenburger, and beloved father of Paul (Lita) Weisenburger, John (Diane) Weisenburger, Tom (Diane) Weisenburger, Janet (Ron) Giannini, and Richard (Thais) Weisenburger; beloved brother of Marcella Abraham, also survived by twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Born Sept. 25, 1915 in Bismarck, ND, he lived and worked in San Francisco in construction for Otis Elevator Co. and later as the Business Agent for Local 8 of the International Union of Elevator Constructors. He will be remembered for his hard work, and his ready wit.
"Friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service at Miraloma Community Church, 480 Teresita Blvd at Arroyo in San Francisco on Saturday March 30 at 2:00PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Parkinson's Institute, 1170 Morse Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089."
REMEMBRANCE
In an April 1 letter from Harry's wife, Wilma, she says: "My husband, Harry Weisenburger, had been in poor health for several months. He died March 15, 2002, at the age of 86 1/2 of respiratory failure. He had been hospitalized with double pneumonia since March 12. On March 30, church and family friends, elevator constructors and over 30 of his descendants attended a memorial service at Miraloma Community Church in San Francisco where he had been a member for 50 years."
Sources:
1. Title: Weisenburger Family Bible
2. Title: 1938-39 Bismarck City Directory
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