Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
Name“Hermann” Heinrich Hoepker 
Birth22 Apr 1808, ZurOveste Colonat
Immigration1834, Brmemehafen to Baltimore
FatherHermann Henrich Hoepker (1783-)
Notes for “Hermann” Heinrich Hoepker
Traveled to America with Johann Zur Oveste, Enrst Kiesekamp and Henry Kleiboeker. In May 1834, after arrival in Baltimore, Ernst Kieskamp, Johann ZurOveste and Hermann Höpker traveled together by hiring a wagon and driver who took them on the great National Road, also known as the Cumberland Road from Baltimore to Wheeling WV. They then boarded a Steamer in Wheeling, WV for Cincinnati to meet up with Hermann’s younger brother Rudolph who had immigrated to Cincinnati, the previous year in 1833.
The National Road was the first road built by the Federal Government and under authorization of Thomas Jefferson in 1806. The section from Cumberland to Wheeling was completed in 1818. By 1824, an extension to Baltimore was finished. Later this route was used as a canal route and then by the B&O Railroad. But many German immigrants from the Osnabrück area used this road to get to Wheeling and then by paddlewheel steamer on the Ohio River from Wheeling to Cincinnati and points further west through the 1830’s. From 1840’s to the 1860’s it was a mix of wagon road, canal and railroad along this stretch. Railroads were primarily used by the immigrants after the 1860’s.
In June of 1834 after arrival in Cincinnati, Herman stayed and then lived with his brother Rudolph. Rudolph was working at a distillery there. Hermann found work with Rudolph, but there was no immediate vacancies for his fellow travelers who went on to Dayton where they found work along the Dayton Canal. After finding poor working conditions at the Canal, Johan ZurOveste and Ernst Kiesekamp changed employers and worked on a farm near Dayton.
In a few weeks, Rudolph Höpker showed up in Dayton and told Johann ZurOveste that the Distillery was looking for one entry level worker. It appears that Ernst stayed on the farm and Johan ZurOveste came back to Cincinnati. The three immigrants, Hermann and Rudolph and ZurOveste worked at the Distillery over that winter and up until September 1835.
The National Road was the first road built by the Federal Government and under authorization of Thomas Jefferson in 1806. The section from Cumberland to Wheeling was completed in 1818. By 1824, an extension to Baltimore was finished. Later this route was used as a canal route and then by the B&O Railroad. But many German immigrants from the Osnabrück area used this road to get to Wheeling and then by paddlewheel steamer on the Ohio River from Wheeling to Cincinnati and points further west through the 1830’s. From 1840’s to the 1860’s it was a mix of wagon road, canal and railroad along this stretch. Railroads were primarily used by the immigrants after the 1860’s.
In June of 1834 after arrival in Cincinnati, Herman stayed and then lived with his brother Rudolph. Rudolph was working at a distillery there. Hermann found work with Rudolph, but there was no immediate vacancies for his fellow travelers who went on to Dayton where they found work along the Dayton Canal. After finding poor working conditions at the Canal, Johan ZurOveste and Ernst Kiesekamp changed employers and worked on a farm near Dayton.
In a few weeks, Rudolph Höpker showed up in Dayton and told Johann ZurOveste that the Distillery was looking for one entry level worker. It appears that Ernst stayed on the farm and Johan ZurOveste came back to Cincinnati. The three immigrants, Hermann and Rudolph and ZurOveste worked at the Distillery over that winter and up until September 1835.