Marie Margaret Ruof emigrated in 1880 from Switzerland to the United States.
3,4,5 Marie Margaret von Buren and
Adolf Von Buren appeared on the census of 16 February 1892 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, which lists Gustave Van Buren, 46, born in Switzerland, his wife Marie Van Buren, 30, also born in Switzerland, and his children [by his former wife Katherine Stillger] Hattie, 15, Laura, 12 and Gustave [Jr.], 11, all born in the U.S.
11 Her husband, Adolf, died on 31 December 1895 of chronic gastritis; stricture of the pylorus; starvation exhaustive in 212 44th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, at age 49, leaving her a widow.
12,13,14 Marie Margaret von Buren appeared on the census of 1900 in 212 44th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, which lists Marie Van Buren, a widow, 37, born January 1863 in Switzerland, with three boarders including her cousin Theodore Watterwald, 49, born November 1850 in Switzerland. Marie had not given birth to any children.
15 She lived in 1901 in 212A 44th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, The 1901-02 Brooklyn City Directory indicates that "Marie M. Van Buren, widow of Chris'r [sic?] A." [apparently Gustav's third wife and widow] lived at 212A 44th Street. [Diane Khoury's 17 May 1999 e-mail].
Marie Margaret Hollander and
John Henry Hollander appeared on the census of 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, which lists John H. Hollander, 56, born in New York, his wife Marie M. Hollander, 48, born in Switzerland; Marie's cousin Theodore Wetterwald, 60, born in Switzerland; and a lodger. Both John and Marie had been married before, and they had been married to each other for 10 years.
This same cousin lived at Marie's home in Brooklyn in the 1900 census after Adolph Van Buren had died and was a witness at her 1901 marriage to John Henry Hollander. Wetterwald had come to the US in 1878, two years before Marie and her father arrived in New York. I [Diane Khoury] had always wondered how Marie met and married Adolph, since the rest of her family would settle in Iowa, but now that we know about this cousin having been in Brooklyn before them, it is possible that Marie and her father stayed in Brooklyn for a time before the rest of the Ruof family emigrated two years later and moved on to Iowa. Theodore Wetterwald worked in hotels and was a caterer. Perhaps Marie also did this before her marriage to Adolph, as well as after his death. In one of the Brooklyn city directories in the late 1890s, after Marie was a widow, a Marie Van Buren was listed as operating a delicatessen.
3,10 Her husband, John, died on 21 March 1911 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at age 56, leaving her a widow.
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