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The History of the Family |
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Johann Friedrich Ludwig "Louis" Niedermeyer immigrated
to the United States in 1886, selling his birthrights for the German
farm of his father to his older brother. In 1888 he married his
brother's wife's sister Katharine Caroline Charlotte Bergfeld, who
also immigrated to the U.S. in 1886. They survived their first farm in Nebraska from pour crops, floods and droughts. The second farm in Nebraska was not good either. So in 1899 they decided to move to Oregon. After a stop in Portland they found a place at the Rogue River Valley looked like their German homeland. Louis farmed the land and then sold it in small acres, purchasing and building city properties in Medford, OR. Later he began a series of investments and financing of business properties. Louis and Charlotte had seven children (five boys and two girls): Emma Louise, Ernest Heinrich, Carl Frederick, Otto Friedrich, Anna Caroline, Henry Frederich and John Louis.
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