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Old German person

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)🌐 Q127041998id: p_old-german_918bdf

also known as: old man

Probable 70%
Summary:  A German merchant who, with his wife, ran a tent store selling groceries and notions, and owned a wagon outfit which he sold to the narrator's party.
Completeness: 100/100 Grade A
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Claims (10)

arrested_for

robbery
cited from As I walked up the main street I noticed… (1891)
As I walked up the main street I noticed the tent of the old German of whom we bought the outfit the day before was a perfect wreck, and also one or two other tents were more or less damaged. The poor old fellow and his wife were about hal…

lived_at

cited from He was absent but a short time and on his… (1891)
He was absent but a short time and on his return he informed us that he had found the very thing we wanted and told us to follow” him. He took us to the largest tent in town which was occupied by an old German and his wife who had a sma…
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-03-20 (1891) · +2 more
have no doubt has come to the conclusion that I was a tenderfoot and a badly scared tenderfoot at that and that the terrible crowd of ruffians were merely a crowd of honest miners as harmless as kittens. Wait, my friends, wait till I get t…

occupation

grocer
cited from He was absent but a short time and on his… (1891)
He was absent but a short time and on his return he informed us that he had found the very thing we wanted and told us to follow” him. He took us to the largest tent in town which was occupied by an old German and his wife who had a sma…
grocer
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-03-20 (1891)
have no doubt has come to the conclusion that I was a tenderfoot and a badly scared tenderfoot at that and that the terrible crowd of ruffians were merely a crowd of honest miners as harmless as kittens. Wait, my friends, wait till I get t…

owned

cited from On making known to Apache our wish to… (1891) · +1 more
have no doubt has come to the conclusion that I was a tenderfoot and a badly scared tenderfoot at that and that the terrible crowd of ruffians were merely a crowd of honest miners as harmless as kittens. Wait, my friends, wait till I get t…
cited from He was absent but a short time and on his… (1891)
He was absent but a short time and on his return he informed us that he had found the very thing we wanted and told us to follow” him. He took us to the largest tent in town which was occupied by an old German and his wife who had a sma…
cited from As I walked up the main street I noticed… (1891)
As I walked up the main street I noticed the tent of the old German of whom we bought the outfit the day before was a perfect wreck, and also one or two other tents were more or less damaged. The poor old fellow and his wife were about hal…
cited from As I walked up the main street I noticed… (1891)
As I walked up the main street I noticed the tent of the old German of whom we bought the outfit the day before was a perfect wreck, and also one or two other tents were more or less damaged. The poor old fellow and his wife were about hal…

sold_to

narrator's party for Two hundred and seventy-five dollars
cited from On making known to Apache our wish to… (1891) · +1 more
have no doubt has come to the conclusion that I was a tenderfoot and a badly scared tenderfoot at that and that the terrible crowd of ruffians were merely a crowd of honest miners as harmless as kittens. Wait, my friends, wait till I get t…

Sources (5)

As I walked up the main street I noticed…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

He was absent but a short time and on his…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

On making known to Apache our wish to…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

We found the old man had a good span of…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

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