Frank Oberle

Research notes and diagrams concerning the genealogy of the Lichty-Harris family of Missouri.

The earliest members of the Hartman family - Quakers from the Palatinate - had settled in William Penn's territory by late 1740, with the particular branch discussed her settling in Berks County, northwest of where the first Hartmans arrived in Philadelphia. In the late 1780s, when the many frontier (then in east-central Pennsylvania) disputes had been settled, the family migrated further northwest to what is now Pennsylvania's Columbia County. By the late 19th century, Grier Hartman had migrated to Illinois. This book summarizes the family history of this Hartman branch from colonial times, including marriages to Fox, Breece, and Caruth women along the way, until Ray Ellis Hartman's daughter met and married a descendant of Johann Johannsen K ster, who lived in what we now call Germany during the 17th century. Johann K ster's 5th great-grandson Anton Koester migrated to the United States in the late nineteenth century, settling originally in Iowa, then later in Illinois, where his youngest son met and married Ray Ellis Hartman's daughter. A brief history of this line of the Koester family and Anton's Bruns in-laws is given, along with a reproduction of "The Koster Family Album" originally created by some German descendants of Johann K ster in 1928. Copies of ancestry diagrams, and selected census pages, draft registration cards, and passenger arrival manifests and/or naturalization petitions related to members of these family lines are included, as well as a few maps showing where they lived in earlier years.

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In A Chosen Path, Frank Oberle continues the amazing story of his remarkable rise from self-educated immigrant to national politician and Cabinet minister. The bestselling first volume of Frank's autobiography, Finding Home, recounted his turbulent youth in Nazi-run Germany and his post-war immigration to Canada. After working for a year and a half--as a baker, logger and miner--he earned enough to bring his future wife, Joan, from their homeland. They eventually settled in the brand-new community of Chetwynd, BC, where he began his political life as a village councillor and later became mayor. In A Chosen Path, we travel with Frank to Ottawa after his election to the House of Commons in 1972 and follow his six-term political career, which culminated in his appointment to Cabinet in 1985--first as Minister of State for Science and Technology, then four years later as Minister of Forestry. On the way, we are treated to incisive, often witty, behind-the-scenes looks at the politicians and issues of the day, along with Frank's straight-shooting assessments of our national leaders and the prime minister's office. Now a thoughtful observer more than a decade removed from that maelstrom of machinations that is Canada's capital, Frank sheds light on what is right and what is wrong in our political world.

Franz (Frank) Oberle was nine years old when his family was relocated from Germany to Poland. Once there, he was taken from his parents to an isolated school where adolescents were being indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth. As the tide of war changed, he became a refugee fleeing the Russian advance, arriving in Dresden as the city became the target of the most horrific Allied bombing of the war. Surviving on grass and stolen eggs, Franz and a friend walked 800 kilometres to his ancestral village on the edge of the Black Forest, only to find that his parents had not returned and to face rejection from his remaining family. But the indominable Franz survived amid the disillusioned populace of Germany and, with his youthful sweetheart, dreamed of a new life in a new land. With the blessing of his beloved Hanna (Joan), he set off for Canada, promising to send for her when he was able to provide for her. Their subsequent life together in BC has encompassed tragedy and pure joy, hard work and hard times, failure and triumph, as Frank Oberle rose from self-educated immigrant to acclaimed federal politician. Set against the backdrops of the Second World War and the raw British Columbia frontier, Finding Home covers Frank's fascinating life story up until the time he visited Germany after a decade in Canada. Rich in detail, drama and humour, this is a love story, an inspirational saga and a book that sings the song of the Canadian immigrant.