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  August Wilhelm KRESSIN, 1840-1915
Farmer
Berthold's second cousin once removed

14 April 1840 - Born at Darsow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

14 November 1847, age 7 - Grandfather Johann "Hans" TREPTOW, age 63, died at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern of Abzehrung (tuberculosis)

1867, age 26 - Grandmother Maria BRANDT Treptow, age 72, died at Lewetzow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

Sometime before October 1868 - Immigrated in New York

As of sometime before October 1868 until sometime after April 1874 - Resided at Tilden, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

20 October 1868, age 28 - Married Emilie Wilhelmine Heinriette RüGE, age 22, at Zion Lutheran Church, Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

31 December 1869, age 29 - Mother Maria TREPTOW Kressin, age 55, died at Tilden of ruptured blood vessel

4 January 1870, age 29 - Filed Declaration of Intention at Circuit Court, Chippewa Falls

12 April 1872, age 31 - Married Hanna Louise Mathilde HEIDTKE, age 27, at Zion Lutheran Church there. The couple had one child. Rose Emilie Caroline, born October 9th, 1872, christened on th 13th with godparents Johann Kressin, Caroline Heidtke, and Emilie Kressin. She died November 10th of that year.

1 December 1872, age 32 - Wife Hanna Louise Mathilde HEIDTKE Kressin, age 28, died at Tilden

As of sometime before May 1874 - Resided at McLeod County, Minnesota

15 May 1874, age 34 - Obtainnd marriage license at District Court, Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota

22 May 1874, age 34 - Married Maria "Mary" BLOCK, age 20, at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 20882 Walden Avenue, Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minnesota. The couple had six children. These include Anna, Hulda, Theodore, Leonard, Gustav and Robert.

As of sometime before September 1874 - Resided at Meeker County, Minnesota

14 September 1874, age 34 - Declaration of Intention at District Court Fourth Judicial District there

As of 1877 until March 1909 - Resided at Cedar Mills, Meeker County, Minnesota

28 October 1879, age 39 - Naturalized at Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota. Witnesses were Herman Kurth and Heinrich Block

18 August 1890, age 50 - Father Martin KRESSIN, age 71, died at Tilden

22 January 1891, age 50 - Half-brother Martin TREPTOW, age 55, died of broken neck due to jumping from wagon to control horses

As of sometime before 1910 - Resided at Water Street, Chippewa Falls

1910, age 69 - Occupation listed as piler in lumber yard

10 May 1915, age 75 - Died at home of his son Gustav, 1 1/2 Jackson Street (now 69th Street), Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Buried at Green Ridge Cemetery there