Damian Oestreich

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Damian Oestreich (after 1859 occasionally Daniel Oestreich , born October 5, 1843 in Oberbimbach , † 1913 in Ashland , Pennsylvania , USA) was an American organ builder and carpenter of German origin. He emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA in 1859 , where his stepfather and two older brothers had already gone in 1855.

biography

family

Damian was the youngest of four sons of the organ builder Adam Joseph Oestreich (1799–1843) from his marriage to Margarete geb. Gardener (1805-1857). His older brothers Emil Michael (1832–1857), Maximilian (1834 – after 1872) and Maurus (1836–1912) were also organ builders and were thus members of the last of the five generations of organ builders in the Oestreich family . The father died in the year Damian's birth and his younger brother Augustin Oestreich (1807 – after 1855) married the widow Margarete in 1844 and thus became the stepfather of their children Monika (* 1829), Emil Michael, Maximilian, Maurus, Mathilde (* 1838) and Damian. In 1855 Augustin, Maximilian and Maurus emigrated to the USA. They settled there in Ashland, Pennsylvania, founded in 1850 and incorporated in 1857, and ran an organ and wood construction workshop in neighboring Pottsville . Damian, then only 12 years old, stayed with his mother in Oberbimbach, and in 1859 he followed his brothers to Pennsylvania.

Act

There he joined the workshop ("Oestreich & Brother Organ & Melodion Manufactory, Pottsville, Pa., Max Oestreich, proprietor") in Pottsville, founded by his stepfather and headed by his brother Maximilian (Max) after his death, where organs , carpentry and wood construction were manufactured.

After the start of the American Civil War , Damian, now also called Daniel, volunteered in the 27th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, with which he served until he was demobilized . (His brother Maurus served in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment from September 1861 to October 1864.) He then returned to his brother Max's workshop while Maurus opened his own carpentry and woodworking workshop in St. Clair, neighboring Pottsville .

So far there is no known organ that still exists and can be assigned to him. The assumption that he built a no longer preserved organ in the Trinity Episcopal Church in Pottsville is doubtful.

Marriage and offspring

Damian Oestreich married Margarete (Mary) Hornung, born around 1845, and had three daughters and three sons with her.

literature

  • Gottfried Rehm : The organ builder family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 7, 1973, pp. 37-66.
  • Gottfried Rehm: Contributions to the history of the organ building family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 21, 1990, pp. 55-99.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ When Augustin Oestreich died is not known.
  2. ↑ http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/regiment5.php?reg=96&state=PA
  3. ↑ http://www.civilwarindex.com/armypa/Rosters/96th_pa_infantry_roster.pdf
  4. ↑ http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/regiment5.php?reg=96&state=PA
  5. ^ Census: 1890, Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, PA; Special Schedule, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows, etc.
  6. ↑ Anthony FC Wallace: A Workingman's Town (Chapter 3 from: St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 1987; digital-reprint at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Exploring Diversity in Pennsylvania History, Immigrants in Coal Country), pp. 54–55
  7. ^ Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Data Base: Damien Oestreich
  8. ^ See Trinity Episcopal Church: The Organs and History of Trinity Church Pottsville, Pennsylvania - Part I: The earliest Notes
  9. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14659186/mount_carmel_item/
  10. ↑ https://www.myheritage.com/names/margaretha_oestreich
personal data
SURNAME Oestreich, Damian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oestreich, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organ builder and carpenter of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberbimbach
DATE OF DEATH 1913
Place of death Ashland , Pennsylvania , USA