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2017.030.1509Scope and Content
This is a letter from Anna Wassmann. It is dated 11/07/1892 .
This was with another letter written between Anna Wassmann and Miss L. Gall of West Oakland, CA.
Anna Wassmann lived in Seattle, WA in 1900. She was born 01/1872 in Germany and her father was Frederich Wassmann. She was a servant for the Newfelder family in the 1900 US Census. She married Paul Haase (1866-1929) and had a child Freida E. Haase.
L.Gall is probably Louise Gall who was the sister of Kate Gall Wassmann married to John Wassmann and living in Oregon. The letter is talking about the concern that Anna Wassmann has for Kate. At the time Kate and her husband John were going through a divorce. One of the factors leading up to the divorce was a charge that John had attempted to kill Kate. They were divorced and then John claimed that Kate was insane and she ended up in a mental institution in Salem, Oregon. Her children, Walter G and Frank Henry Wassmann ended up living with Kate's brothers and sister in Benicia. They were Frederick, William and Louise Gall. (Frederick owned a Grocery on First and William was a butcher. Walter Wassmann ended up being a well respected butcher in Benicia.)
The translation of the letter is in Media button of this record. There is also a written account of Kate Gall Wassmann taken from an online record. It gives a more detailed account of her life and what happened after she died at the Oregon State Insane Asylum in Salem Oregon. Just recently her cremated remains were claimed by Wassmann relatives in Benicia and she was buried with her family in Benicia (see photo of gravesite).Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
