Esslinger Family Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains genealogical information and documents related to the Esslinger, Bloch, and Leib families from Württemberg, Konstanz and Zurich, as well as Isidor Esslinger who immigrated to the US State of Indiana in the 1850s.
Folders 1 and 2 contain a family tree of the Leib, Bloch, and Esslinger families and other genealogical materials, as well as explanatory correspondence and published articles by Otto S. Leib.
Folder 3 holds various documents for members of the Bloch, Esslinger, and Leib families from Zurich, Gailingen, and Württemberg.
Folder 4 pertains to families Leib and Bloch and to the town of Konstanz.
Legal documents pertaining to Isidor Esslinger in Germany (Wuertemberg) and in the United States (Indiana)are held in folder 5 and in the rare oversize folder ROS 11, which also includes a letter of appointment to be a customs appraiser of merchandise for the Port of Evansville, Indiana, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant.
Dates
- 1838-1981
Creator
- Leib, Otto S., 1902- (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Isidor (Isaak) Esslinger was born in Muehringen/Baden in 1833 and died in Evansville, Indiana, in 1908. He immigrated to the US and fought on the Union side in the Civil War in Indiana's 1st German Infantry Regiment. After the war he returned to Germany to marry Jenny Gut. They returned to Evansville, where Isidor opened a jewelry store.
Other members of the Esslinger / Bloch / Leib family intermarried and lived in Konstanz and Zurich.
Extent
5 Folders (+ 1 OS, 1 album)
Abstract
This collection contains genealogical information and documents related to the Esslinger, Bloch, and Leib families from Württemberg, Konstanz and Zurich, as well as Isidor Esslinger who immigrated to the US State of Indiana in the 1850s.
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
A printed lecture by Theodor Barth, Die Präsidentenwahl und die Zollpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Berlin 1888, about presidential elections and custom regulations in the United States has been removed to the LBI Library.
- Archival materials
- Bloch, Daniel Jakob
- Bloch, Otto
- Esslinger, Isidor, 1833-1908
- Evansville (Ill.)
- Genealogical tables
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Jewish students
- Jews -- Germany -- Genealogy
- Jews -- Germany -- History
- Konstanz (Germany)
- Photographs
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Jewish
- Württemberg (Germany)
- Zürich (Switzerland)
- Title
- Esslinger Family Collection, 1838-1981 AR 4991
- Author
- Processed by Hermann Teifer and LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- January 2015:: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
