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- [S3] Sonstiges, http://www.drapers.us/Jesberg/.
The following write up is in the ?History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, MO? compiled by G. L.Butt. ?WILLIAM DERSCH, roofer and cornice maker, 802 North Third street, was born in Germany October 8, 1854. He came to America in 1855 and to St. Joseph in 1857. Attending school in St. Joseph he learned the trade which he has since followed. Mr. Dersch is a Republican and represented the First Ward in the city council from 1891 to 1894 and from 1894 to 1896 was superintendent of the work house. He married Miss Caroline E. Schroer in 1881 and three children, a boy and two girls, have been born to them.?
The workhouse was the city street and sewer maintenance department. He really came to the US in 1857 and was in Indiana only a few months before coming to St. Joseph.
He was a great lover of music, sang well, and was a member of several of the musical societies of the city.
He started out working with his brother Henry in the Dersch H & Bro tinner business. By 1894 it looks like he was in business by himself.
In 1917 his son, Louis, -Died of Accidental Drowning-Intoxicated "fell Out Of Boat While Fishing" .
His daughter, Mabel F, married Louie G. Montray and had 3 sons. By 1920, they had moved to Conception Junction, MO and her mother was living with them. By 1930 they were divorced and she and the boys were living with her mother in Topeka, Kansas. She was a Public Stenographer.
- [S3] Sonstiges, http://www.drapers.us/Jesberg/, 1857.
Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Jacob Dersch and had 4 children in Hesse between 1866 and 1854. They came over in 1857 and had two more children in St. Joseph, MO in 1860 and 1864.
In 1857, William?s oldest child, Elizabeth, her husband Jacob Dersch, and 4 of their children rejoined the family. They sailed from Bremen, Germany to New Orleans.
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1854 - 1904 (49 Jahre)