Louise Boeckner

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• Name: Louise Pressprich
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150056
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1859, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Louise married Otto E. Pressprich 13 Dec 1859, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Otto (son of Frederick Pressprich and Christiane Sophie Frederike "Frederike" Jaehnig) was born 27 Sep 1833, Großenhain, , Sachsen, Germany; died 1 Dec 1896, Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States; was buried , Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Hedwig "Hedwig" Kischel
• Name: Hedwig L. Pressprich
• Name: Hedwig Pressprich
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-126343
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Anna married Wilhelm F. "William" Kischel 25 Jun 1884, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Wilhelm (son of Freiderich Kischel and Caroline Feliski) was born 9 Jul 1857, , Germany; died 10 Jun 1915, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ludwilla Pressprich
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150058
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150059
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150060
• Occupation: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Occupation: 1896, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; printer

Notes:

Death of Mr. Otto E. Pressprich.

The news of the death of Mr. Otto E. Pressprich, which took place at Port Huron, Mich., on Christmas Day, was received with deep regret by his many friends in New Hamburg. He had been ill for ten days with meningitis. The late Mr. Pressprich was in his 55th year and was born in New Hamburg, a son of the late Otto Pressprich. He was connected with the Independent Office for many years as foreman and from 1895 to 1898 was a partner in the business, after which he removed to Port Huron, where he had since resided. He was married about 22 years ago to Miss Kate Foerster, who with three sons and four daughters is left to mourn his demise. He is also survived by his mother and two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Beger, of Port Huron, and Miss Alma Pressprich, of Detroit. The funeral took place at Port Huron on Sunday last. The sympathy of their many friends here is extended to the bereaved family.

New Hamburg Independent, January 2, 1920

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MR. O. PRESSPRICK PASSES AWAY IN PORT HURON

A large circle of friends in the Twin City and throughout Waterloo County will regret to learn of the Reath of Mr. Otto Pressprick who passed away at Port Huron, Mich., on Thursday afternoon, following a ten days illness of Meningitis. The late Mr.Pressprick, who was 55 years old, was for a number of years publisher of the New Hamburg Independent and the Canadische Dolksblath, prior to going to Port Huron.

He is survived by his widow and seven children, three sons and four laughters; also by his mother, Mrs. Otto Pressprick, Sr., Detroit, and two sister, Mrs. R. Beger, Port Huron, and Miss Alma Pressprick, Detroit. Another sister, Mrs. Wm. Kischel passed away in Galt several months ago.

The funeral took place at Port Huron on Sunday afternoon.

The Chronicle Telegraph 1 Jan 1920, p. 3

Otto married Anna Catherine "Kate" Forester 7 Dec 1896, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. Anna (daughter of Valentine Foerster and Mary Rayman) was born 24 Apr 1875, , Ontario, Canada; died 14 Aug 1972; was buried , Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Bruno Pressprich
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150061
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hardware Clerk
• Residence: 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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DEATH OF MR. R. B. PRESSPRICH

The many friends of Mr. Otto Pressprich of New Hamburg will regret to learn of the sad death, by typhoid fever, of his youngest son, Robert Bruno, which occurred on Thursday last. The young man was engaged in the hardware store of Mr. J. Fennel of Berlin and some four weeks ago was attacked with fever, which resulted fatally on Thursday. Deceased was in his 25th year and was deservedly popular in his circle of acquaintance. His bereaved parents, have the sympathy of the entire community, in their painful affliction.

The Dumfries Reformer 8 Oct 1891 pg 1

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-88128
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor, Tailor Shop
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-350551
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Name: Ella Hedwig Ludmilla Senior
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-350552
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?, Shoe Shop
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Ella married Arthur Senior 7 Jun 1917, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Arthur was born 11 Mar 1893, Leeds, Yorkshire, England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-88131
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Military: WW1
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38163P

Notes:

Otto Pressprich (1897 -1986) As editor of the Saginaw News, Otto Pressprich was described as fair, honest, likable, understanding, helpful, businesslike, forceful, a stickler for accuracy and a man of action as well as of words. But it was as a visionary and a dreamer that he made his most important impact on the mid-Michigan scene.

He was born December 13, 1897, in New Hamburg, Ontario, the eldest of seven children. Newspaper work was in his blood from the beginning: his father was editor of a weekly newspaper in Canada and, after the family moved to the United States in 1898, worked in the composing room of the Port Huron Times Herald.

Otto Pressprich graduated from Port Huron High School in 1915 and then attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, for one year. With World War I raging in Europe, he enlisted in the Canadian army, served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces and was in England when the war ended. After his discharge from the military in 1918 as a company quartermaster sergeant, Pressprich did factory time-study work in Port Huron, Detroit and Saginaw.

In 1922, he married Florence Frink and they had three sons and three daughters: William, Robert and Richard Pressprich and Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas) Norpell, Dorothy (Mrs. Stuart) Fordyce and Mary (Mrs. Gene) King. Florence Pressprich died in 1971; he later married Marie Holloway. In 1922, Pressprich got a job as night proofreader at the Saginaw News with a promise of a reporting job when one was available. He left the proof desk that year, however, to become managing editor of the shortlived Saginaw Evening Star, a competitor of the News.

When the Star folded, Pressprich worked briefly for Lufkin Rule but returned to the News in 1923 as a farm and rural-school reporter. Moving through the ranks as state editor, telegraph editor, city editor and news editor, Pressprich was named editor-in-chief in January 1941. As editor, he spurred a grand jury cleanup of Saginaw's notorious red-light district and called city officials to account during a post-war embezzlement scandal. He demanded high professional standards from his employees. At the same time, he showed a continuous and sincere concern for their welfare. When criticizing, he focused on the error, not the person who erred. Despite a businesslike and sometimes brusque exterior, he was a man of empathy and humanity.

He retired as editor in 1958. In the 1950's, realizing the need for higher education in the Saginaw Valley, he helped to organize the Tri County College Study and then became first president of the Valley College Association, an action group that succeeded in gaining legislative approval for the establishment of a three-county taxing unit which made the funding of Delta College possible. Pressprich also believed that the tri-county area should have a four-year, degree-granting institution and that the state of Michigan should expand Delta to meet that need. However another faction was strongly convinced that Delta should remain a two-year community college. Pressprich then began planning the creation of what became Saginaw Valley State College (now University). Many of his associates credited Pressprich with being the spark and inspiration that made the two colleges possible. In J 964, he served as assistant to the president of Saginaw Valley.

Observing that the best-qualified people were not running for public office, Pressprich proposed Saginaw's first Town Hall meeting at which interested citizens nominated candidates for City Council.

In 1951, Pressprich was made an honorary alumnus of the University of Michigan. In 1953, he received an honorary doctorate from Central Michigan and SVSC granted him a similar honor in 1976.

Pressprich was a member--and often an officer of many organizations including the University Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi professional journalism society, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Associated Press Managing Editors' Association, Kiwanis Club, Saginaw Valley Torch Club. Saginaw Club, Saginaw Country Club, Saginaw Chamber of Commerce, Saginaw County Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, YMCA Retired Men's Fellowship Club and the Saginaw County Commission on Aging.

The Arnold Boutell Award for Community Service was presented to Pressprich in 1959 and he was later named the county's outstanding senior citizen by the Commission on Aging.

Otto Pressprich died July 16, 1986 at the age of 88.

Biographical Sketches by Ed Miller and Jean R. Beach by Saginaw Hall of Fame and Castle Museum of Saginaw County