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Larry verified some geneological facts in April96:

• No Freudingers in 1890 or 1900 census (Illinois).
• Also went throught the New York 1900 census & also drew a blank.
• Christoph & family show up in the 1910 census of which I made hardcopy.
  The image is not that good so I've typed the info in instead of provideing a scanned image you can't read. I've left most of the 32 column descriptions intact to give you a flavor for the original descriptions.
  
  Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 Population Cook County Illinois 16 Apr 1910. Enumeration District 1280, Sheet No. 3, Family Number 48.
  
• Freutinger, Christopher (the typo is actually there)
• Relation: HEAD
• Sex: M
• Color or race W
• Age at last birthday: 49
• Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced: M1 (married 1 time)
• Number of years of present marriage: 22
• Mother of how many children (born/now living): (blank)
• Place of birth of this person :Germany
• Place of birth of Father of this person: Germany
• Place of birth of Mother of this person: Germany
• Year of Immigration to the Unites States:1884
• Whether naturalized or alien Na
• Whether able to speak English or, if not, give language spoken: English
• Trade or Profession, or kind of work done by this person: Carpenter
• Nature of industry, business, etc in which this person works: Contractor
• Whether or not out of work on April 15, 1910: W
• Number of weeks out of work during 1909: 0
• Whether able to read: Yes
• Whether able to write: Yes
• Attended school anytime after September 1, 1909:(blank)
• Ownership of Home
• Own or rent: O
• Owned free or Mortgaged F
• Farm or house: H
  [the remainder of these fields have entries that don't make sense]
• number of farm or [bedrooms?]: 12 (not sure what this is)
• Whether a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy: 2
• Whether blind (both eyes) 9
• Whether deaf and dumb 8
• Barbara [only non-blank entries provided for remainder of family]
• Relation: Wife
• Sex: F
• Color or race W
• Age at last birthday: 46
• Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced: M1 (married 1 time)
• Number of years of present marriage: 22
• Mother of how many children (born/now living): 6/6
• Place of birth of this person :Germany
• Place of birth of Father of this person: Germany
• Place of birth of Mother of this person: Germany
• Year of Immigration to the Unites States:1885
• Whether able to speak English or, if not, give language spoken: English
• Trade or Profession, or kind of work done by this person: None
• Number of weeks out of work during 1909: 0
• Whether able to read: Yes
• Whether able to write: Yes
  
• The five kids on the list [only non-obvious entries]
• Relation:
• Benedict:
• Charles
• Anthony
• John
• Othelia
• (Who was the sixth?)
• Age at last birthday:
• Benedict: 20
• Charles 19
• Anthony 15
• John 9
• Othelia 12
• Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced: All single
• Place of birth of this person : all Illinois
• Place of birth of Father of this person: all Germany
• Place of birth of Mother of this person: all Germany
• Whether able to speak English or, if not, give language spoken: English (John's language was left blank)
• Trade or Profession, or kind of work done by this person:
• Benedict: Clerk
• Charles Clerk
• Anthony Errand Boy
• John None
• Othelia None
• Nature of industry, business, etc in which this person works:
• Benedict: Railroad
• Charles Railroad
• Anthony Stationary
• Whether or not out of work on April 15, 1910: All three were working
• Number of weeks out of work during 1909: All three full time (0)
• Whether able to read: all Yes
• Whether able to write: all Yes
• Attended school anytime after September 1, 1909:
• Benedict: No
• Charles No
• Anthony No
• John Yes
• Othelia Yes
  
• Also found Christoph's phone number in the 1905 Chicago phone book:
  (... and I'll put it in here as soon as I find it!)
• Lastly, I searched for the name Freudinger on passenger lists of German immigrants. Unfortunately, transcribing that information for sorting is a huge task, and the books for 1884 & 1885 are not yet available. However, I did find evidence that our family may not be the only Freudingers in this country:
• Freudinger, Johann Phillip Micheal; Baltimore, 1826 1031.18 p.10
• Freudinger, Johannes; America, n.d. 1031.18 p10
• This jives with a conversation I had around 1988 at the International Modal Analysis Conference in Orlando FL. I spoke with someone who knew a Freudinger in lower Michigan working in the same field as myself (except with cars).