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Podcast #4 – Melinda Knapheide Germann

Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.

Melinda Germann is a pioneer. Born in Quincy, Illinois in July 1863 during the War Between the States to Henry and Kate Knapheide, she considered herself a physician who tried hard to serve her patients as well as a wife and mother. Her father was born in 1824 in Zingrich, Muenster, Germany, but did not know much about her mother and her family except they were Prussians.

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Podcast #1 – Candace Reed

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.

Mrs. Warren A. Reed, also known as Candace McCormick Reed was born on June 17, 1818 in Crab Orchard, Tennessee. Her father was Jourdain M. McCormick., son of James McCormick who was a close relative of Cyrus H. McCormick the inventor of the reaper. Much is not known of Mrs. Reed’s mother except she was the granddaughter of William A. Vardeman and of the Vardeman’s from Kentucky. Candace McCormick married Warren A. Reed in 1842.

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