#vintage stamp
This little stamp has been floating around for years, but it wasn’t until recently that it dawned on me that the address is unfamiliar. Now part of the issue might be that there were three generations of George F. Ehemanns in my family. The oldest of which is my Great Great Grandfather, who was born in Bavaria in 1838, and ending with my Grandfather who was born in 1907 in Chicago.
Anyway, as for this address the house is still there and appears to be built sometime between 1910 & 1920. Now I have all of the census records for my family around that time period, and a few years of City Directory listings, and none of them show this address. As for my Grandfather, he grew up on Paulina St, and even lived there after he was married. My guess is that he may have lived here on Winnemac sometime either right before or right after the 1930 Census, when he was old enough to rent his own place, but before he got married and moved back into his childhood home well before 1940. That would make sense. His Father had died in 1928, leaving his mother a widow, and the Great Depression had hit giving him another reason to move back home. All in all, that’s the best guess I’ve got.
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