Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Martin Rahm and Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz




Husband Martin Rahm 1

           Born: 4 Oct 1776 - near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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           Died: 6 May 1836 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried: 


         Father: Conrad de Rahm (      -1782) 2
         Mother: Maria Catherine Weiser (1733-      ) 2 3


       Marriage: 20 Jan 1806 - Huntingdon Co, PA 2



Wife Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz 1

           Born: 1788 - Zinsweiller, Germany 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: George Ludwig Anshutz (1753-1837) 2
         Mother: Catherine Elizabeth Gerber (1757-1835) 2




Children
1 F Ann(a) Maria Rahm 1 4 5

           Born: 25 Oct 1813 - Armitage's Mill, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Sep 1894 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 2
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Robert Johnston (1809-1888) 1 4 5
           Marr: 22 Mar 1838 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1



General Notes: Husband - Martin Rahm


He was a clerk and manager of departments in the Huntingdon Iron Works, was from 1814 a member of the iron commission firm of Anshutz and Rahm, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was also an agent for the Economite Society, an early councilman of the city and as such was on the committee to receive General Lafayette in 1825. He was Consul for the Swiss and German governments in Pittsburgh. He was a member of the First German United Evangelical Protestant Church, a member of its council, its secretary for years and its president for some years, and at the time of his death.

He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, the fifth of whom was Anna Maria Rahm.


General Notes: Wife - Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz


She came to America with her parents, brothers and sisters and uncle John Philip Anshutz on the ship "Fair American," Captain Benjamin Lee, from Amsterdam, docking at Philadelphia, September 12, 1791.

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Sources


1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 348.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 349.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 371.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 366.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1352.


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