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The origins and history of the Naval Order of the U.S.

Claus Wagner Jr. (1838-1908) was the sixth of eight children of Claus Wagner Sr. and Wiebke Dammann. He immigrated in 1865 (via Quebec, the St. Lawrence, and the Great Lakes) to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and went to work on a farm in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Johanna Magdalena Schoolmann immigrated in 1868 (via New York) to New Holstein, Wisconsin, where she married Claus. They moved to land near Fremont, Nebraska in 1870, and to land near Scribner, Nebraska about 1881. Descendants and relatives lived in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Washington, California, Texas, New York and elsewhere. Includes ancestry and genealogical records to about 1590 in Germany, as well as some of their descendants and relatives to the 1980s.

The games, coaches, and players of the University of Michigan's storied hockey program