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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #2080, Date of Import: Oct 3, 1999]
Olga was reportedly a beautiful, well-educated governess of the Emperor's children in Austria. She was very cultural and taught dance and was an artist. She had four children while living in Austria.
Olga's brother, Ernest, had come to Texas to escape punishment for wounding a person in a dueling match. He liked Texas and wrote to Olga and Alfonz encouraging them to come to Texas.
In 1889, when Henry Wranitzky was 6 years old and Alexander was 3 years old, Olga and Alfons and their children sailed for America. They cleared immigration at Ellis Island in New York and then sailed to Galveston. From Galveston, they took a train to Kyle.
Olga was Catholic (as were many of the Wranitzky relatives who came to America). She was used to going to church in her white gloves and hat.
Olga and Alfons lived on a 100-acre farm near Kyle (now known as the Walser place). Then they moved to Driftwood where they lived in tghe abondoned Johnson Institute. A few years later, Alfons purchased a farm near Uhland and they moved.
When Olga's eyesight failed due t glaucoma, she accidently put kerosene on the salad instead of vinegar. When her daughter-in-law, Henry Wranitzky's wife, Ottilie, discovered them trying to eat tghe salad, they knew Olga and Alfons needed help.
Olga and Alfons had a 2-room house in Uhland. At the time, Henry and Ottilie were living in rooms attached to the blacksmith shop. They added a back porch, kitchen, living room, front porch, sleeping porch and bathroom to Olga and Alfons' house and cared for them until their deaths.
Ernest Lutze, Olga's brother, was the outlaw or black sheep of the family, but without him, the Wranitzky's might all still be in Europe.
According to his nephew, Henry Wranitzky, Ernest Lutze ran with thugs in Europe and the United States.
In many European countries, each town had its top duelists. Dueling was outlawed in many contries but not in Switzerland. For that reason, dueling matches were often fought in back rooms of bars or in Switzerland. The macho were known for their scars.
Ernest Lutze seriously wounded another duelist and fled Europe by stowing away in a boat leaving Naples, Italy, and landed in Texas. He lived near Kyle and wrote to his sister and her husband of how much he liked Texas. They left Austria in l889 and sailed for America with the 4 young sons.
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Grete Wranitsky, 12/1/1968
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Grete Wranitzky, 12/1/1968
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Grete Wranitsky, 12/1/1968
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Grete Wranitzky, 12/1/1968
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Archer Taisey photograph album - part of J. Robert Haggarts Family Photograph Collection, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, Institute for Regional Studies
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/collections/photography/Photofindingaids/haggart.htm
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Letter to Frances Nelson Tillman
Brooklyn, May 29, 1924
My dear Niece--
I was glad to get yours of recent date.
Publisher hopes to have the first two (2) volumes during June, and the third volume, a little. Third vol. Shop Talk will contain only Selections from my old Shop Talks.
These will probably soon be out a circular from the Publishers with more detail.
My forebears were all New Englanders -- Vermont. Grandma, whom you think you once saw, married twice. First husband's name Johnson. Second Welton; Mother was by the first, Sense were name was Johnson, Jane. She was sixteen and my father, Matthew Taisey, 23 when they were married at some little town in Vermont. They emigrated at once to Almont, Michigan and lived there and in St. Clair, Michigan. xxxx on thirteen years, where their four children, of which I am the youngest, and only survivor, were born. I was born Sept. 28, 1844. In '1847 we emigrated to Minnesota. Settling at Stillwater, St. Paul had just been laid out, and the site of Minneapolis was an Indian reservation. My father died in 1881. He was a blacksmith. My Mother. here. in 1887.
Grand the Welton died here with us in 1875.
The Nobles family, including Cal-Bill Nobles, Freemont's Lieutenant for whom Nobles Pass in the Rockies is named, emigrated to Minnesota with our family. I had been christened for one of the brothers.
Throughout my professional life, I have been haunted by the Noble and Nobles clans, all trying to be relations.
Hope the boys may find a string here to tie a kite to.
I have been under the weather, and the doctor--for some days. I have a bad heart. Have known it for ten years, and have not been as careful as I should. Appear about normal today and have been out.
A bunch of us youngsters, including H.E. Dixey & myself expect play week of June 9th at the Empire Theatre in "The Players" annual art production. This will be the third. First was the Rivals. Last year School for Scandal, this year She Stoops to Conquer. They have been wonderfully successful in every way.
Dolly joins in love, and is looking forward to that visit.
Your Affectionate Uncle Milton.
Almont Michigan 48003
Almont was first settled in 1827 by James Deneed. The town was originally named Bristol, after Oliver Bristol, the second settler. It was renamed Newburg in 1836. Finally, in 1846, James Thompson donated the town clock and had the town name changed to Almont to honor the Mexican general, Juan N. Almonte.
Almont is located in the southeastern corner of Lapeer County, near the borders of St. Clair, Macomb and Oakland counties.
St Clair Michigan
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NYT Obituary: June 15, 1924, p.23, col. 2
MILTON NOBLES, ACTOR
Had Been Playing, Up to Friday, in "She Stoops to Conquer"
Milton Nobles, actor and playwright, who had been playing in the Players' Club revival of "She Stoops to Conquer" at the Empire Theatre, died yesterday at his home, 139 First Place, Brooklyn, following a stroke of apoplexy. He last appeared in his role of Mat Muggins in "She Stoops to Conquer" on Thursday night last.
Mr. Nobles was 76 years old. He retired from the stage in 1905, but returned in 1920 in Frank Bacon's part in "Lightnin'," one of the most successful of the many actors who essayed the part, in which he continued until his health gave way in March of last year.
Following his debut in 1867, Mr. Nobles was for several years in stock companies throughout the West, and in 1875 produced the dramatization of "Jim Bludsoe" in Philadelphia. He starred himself in this piece and in his own play. "The Phoenix," and toured the country in them for twenty-five years. In "The Phoenix" occurred the line "and the villain still pursued her," a fair sample of the melodramatic character of its author's writing. He wrote a dozen or so plays of this type, and in his acting, too, followed the same school of melodrama.
In 1881 he married Dollie Woolwine, an actress in his company. For some years following 1895 they appeared together in vaudeville.
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New York Public Library Research Libraries Performing Arts Theatre catalog holds Milton Nobles' "Shop talk" - stage stories, anecdotes of the theatre, reminiscences.
Call #: MWED [RBS] 97-10 (Nobles, M. Milton Nobles' Shope talk")