Search

Francis Joseph Baenen, Sr. was born October 15, 1807 in Geldern, Prussia. His parents were Dutch. He married Clara Antonia Huberta Van der Vaart (1803-1851) January 2, 1836 in s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. They had eight children. He married Cornelia Van Grunderbeek (1828-1889) in 1855. They had seven children. They immigrated to America in 1857 and settled in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1881 they moved to Jamestown, North Dakota. Descendants and relatives lived in North Dakota, Wisconsin, Montana, Kansas and elsewhere.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.