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Fortmann [Gross] Franz Joseph Henry (?) Rev.
1792 - unknown

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• Birth	27 Dec 1792	Sudlohne, Vecta District, Oldenburg Duchy, Germany
  Christened	St Gertrud Catholic Church, Lohne
  Gender	Male
  Died	unknown	Unknown
  Buried	Unknown
  Person ID	I751	Schmit(t)... Schmidt...Smith...Fortmann...Fortman....Bourcier...Boursier.....Morris
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2010

  
  

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  1840's German Log Cabin Johann Peter Schmitt, aka Schmidt aka Smith, Johann Zender, Rev. Henry Fortmann, and Peter Schmitt of Winnetkka (this is his house) built these log cabins along "the Ridge" and north for their families between 1835 and 1845. …

  
  

  Histories		1852 Henry Fortman, b. 1802, Germany...farmer (1850 Census, New Trier)....Rev?....Pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church 1847 - 1852, said Mass in the Schmidt House on "the Ridge" …
  		1833-60 the Roman Catholic Church in Northeastern, Illinois, 1833-60, her Priests and their Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals. …

  
  

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  This Henry (Heinrich) Fortman is identified in the 22 Aug 1850 US Census as a 48 year old farmer in New Trier. He is not a known family member. The $150 value of his farm suggests he has 60 acres. There is no sign of a wife or children with him. Could he be the Reverend Henry Fortmann mentioned in "The Life and Writings of the Right Reverend John McMullen, D.D., First Bishop of Davenport, Iowa? (1851) Might he also be the Pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church from 1847 to 1852? All were named "Henry Fortmann" The Probability is these are all the same man. Rev. Joseph Heinrich (Henry) Fortmann was probably ordained by the Bishop of Hannover in Germany about 1818. He was a young man from the SudLohne area of Vecta Province. The Bishop of the Catholic Cathederal in Munster, while closer to Lohne was not the responsible Bishop for Lohne. The Bishop of Osnabruck was Protestant since the Reformation in 1555. And thus it was that the Bishop of Hannover, a cleric under the jurisdiction of an Archbishop of Prussia) most probably ordained Joseph Heinrich. A search of the bishop's ordination records of this period might uncover Rev. J. Heinrich's ordination. The Bishop of this period was under the direction of the Prussian State's Church heirchy. Joseph Heinrich probably migrated to the United States in the late 1830's or early 1840's. He probably came at the request of parishoners seeking a Priest from their home villages in Germany. He would be from from the GrosFortmann lineage. He was Pastor of St Joseph's, Wilmette from 1846 to 1852 and later appointed Pastor of St Mary's in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.