Stillburg Family History
Below are the members of the family that will be covered in this collection, spanning roughly 1847-1940's. The history of the Stillburg Family for the purpose of this collection starts with Joseph Stillburg and ends with his granddaughters, Jean and Nancy Stillburg.
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To find out more on each family member, go to Family Chapters ​to learn more about their lives.
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The Old Gent
Joseph was born in Austria on August 24, 1847 to Joseph Stillburg Sr. and Marie Berchschnieder. After briefly serving in the Austrian Army during the Austro-Purssian War (1866), he immigrated to the United States in 1868 (according to the 1920 census). He became an architect in Pittsburgh and was well known and designed various buildings, many of which are still standing today. He was married to Amelia and had three sons Frederick, Albert, and Osker. Joseph died from liver cancer on December 23, 1923.
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Joseph Stillburg with Jean circa 1923 - most likely months before his death in December of the same year.
The Mother
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Amelia Hoenig was born in Wisconsin in 1856 to Freiderika Schiller Moeier and Oskur Koenig (the 1860 spelled their last name as Koenig not Hoenig). Her father was born in 1827 and her mother in 1833, both in Saxony. She had a brother Albert (1859) and a sister Louisa (1853). They lived in a German community in Green Bay, Wisconsin. During the mid 19th century, Wisconsin became a hub of German immigrants due to the comparable climate and cheap land. In 1879, Amelia Hoenig married Joseph Stillburg.
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Frederick was also an architect like his father. He taught at Carnegie Melon in the 1920s. During Prohibition, he had a still in the family's attic.
Oscar was an architect like his father. He died on May 26, 1914 at 3pm, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, of pneumonia at the age of 28. He was in Green Bay due to his father forbidding him to marry a girl that he loved in Pittsburgh.
Frederick
Oscar
Oscar
Frederick is second row, third from the right. Boy's Catholic School. Circa 1890's.
Oscar on the left. Perhaps at work? Circa 1910's.
Pop
Albert James was born on December 7th, 1983. He was an accountant. He married Mildred Reese and had two daughters, Jean and Nancy.
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A later copy of Albert's birth certificate.
Young Albert. Perhaps school picture? Notice the commonalities in outfit in picture above.
Albert on the right with his best friend (name not known).
Mildred Reese.
Albert standing up. The women in this picture owned the dogs and never had kids of her own.
Albert with Nancy circa late 1930's.
Albert on the left with Mildred at his feet. Other couple name not known.
A Swell Girl
Jean was born in June of 1922 to Albert and Mildred. She grew up during the Great Depression and graduated high school in 1940. She did not go to college but rather started to work. She married John Maczon and had one daughter, Lori Gudmundsson in November of 1958. She lived in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania up until recently, when she moved to Virginia to be closer to family. As of November 2018, she is 96 years old.
Nancy on the left, Jean on the right.
Nancy on the left, Jean on the right.
Nancy on the left, Jean on the right.
Jean on the left, Nancy on the right.
Jean on the left, Nancy in the middle, Mildred holding Nancy.
Jean on the left, Nancy on the right.
Jean on the right, Nancy holding the dog.
Nancy on the left, Jean on the right.
Nancy
Aunt Nancy
Nancy was born on August 18th, 1926.
She married Raymond F. Bairhalter, Sr and they opened a grocery store next to the family house, in what would become the neighborhood of Northview Heights in Pittsburgh, PA. She died on July 11, 2009 at the age 82 from cancer.
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Jean on far left, Nancy in front with checkered skirt. Albert in the back.
Nancy in the horizontal stripes.
From Left: Jean, Mildred, Albert, Nancy.
