![]() ![]() Fink had settled down, forming a retailing jewelry business in Iowa City with George W. ![]() It was during this season, he met and married Anna Weigle – whose family came to Maryland (c.1839) before settling in Johnson County (1850) as well. Fink came to New Orleans in 1852, moving northward into Johnson County in 1854, where his first job was working as a traveling salesman, and then a store clerk for the Eastman & Sperry dry goods store in Iowa City. Read more about five generations of the Fink family in Iowa City – 1835 to the present. ![]() Daughters Emma and Nellie were born in the early 1870’s, prior to J.G.’s death in 1873. Fink and his wife Ann (Cunegunda) with their five oldest children – Henrietta, George, Katie, Otto, and Clara. As you’ll come to see – Cunegunda was one brave woman who had to fight through a lot of adversity!įamily records indicate that John G. Cunegunda (as the family spelled it) or Kunigunde is a German name derived from “kuni” (clan, family) and “gund” (war). Welcome to the homeland of Johann George Finck and Cunegunda Weigle. His wife – Cunegunda (Anna) Weigle Fink was born five years later – in 1835 – in Bavaria as well. John (Johann) George Fink (Finck) was born in 1830 in the German region of Quernheim Rheinpfalz in the Kingdom of Bavaria (today’s Rhineland-Palatinate). ![]()
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