First Generation

1. Temple Beth El JEFFERSON CITY.

Temple Beth El JEFFERSON CITY had the following children:

+2	i.	Isaac BODENHEIMER.
3	ii.	William FISHEL.
+4	iii.	Jacob GOLDMAN.
5	iv.	Abraham HEIM was born in 1842.1 In 1900 he was a clothing merchant in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri.2 He died in 1917.1 from Cole County Historical Society, www.colecohistsoc.org/bios/bio_g.html Abraham Heim, a popular and leading clothier of Jefferson City, was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 3, 1842, where he was reared and educated. In 1860 he immigrated to America, stopping first at Mansfield, Ohio, where he engaged as salesman in a clothing store for about ten years. In 1870 he came to Jefferson City, and the following three years was salesman for Sachs & Wolferman. He went to Germany visiting the Vienna exposition and upon returning opened business on his own account in the City Hotel building. Here he continued to do a prosperous and growing business for ten years. As his increasing trade demanded more commodious quarters to accommodate the enlarged stock, needed he purchased the property and opened his store on the corner High and Madison.
+6	v.	E Jonah HOCHSTADTER.
7	vi.	Joseph OBERMAYER3,4 was born on 8 Apr 1823 in Bavaria, Germany. He lived in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri in 1870.4 The following biography was published in History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Osage Counties, Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Company (1889) and is available on line. Joseph Obermayer, one of the earliest settlers of Jefferson City, Mo., was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 8, 1823, and is the youngest of the family of eight children born to Selegman and Fannie (Zelein) Obermayer, also natives of Bavaria. The parents both died in their native country, where the father was a merchant. Of their eight children only two are living, August, in Bavaria, and Joseph. The latter was reared and educated in the country of his birth, where he engaged in the manufacture of knit goods until he came to the United States, taking passage at Havre in 1845, and after a five weeks' ocean voyage landing in New York City. He reached Jefferson City, Mo., in September, 1845, which at the time was but a small hamlet with no railroad, He engaged in merchandising for some years, and later admitted into partnership his brothers, the firm successfully continuing several years, when the brothers died, and Mr. Obermayer has since conducted the business alone. He is an enterprising citizen and one of the leading business men of the city. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge since 1849, and is one of its leaders, having been District Deputy Grand Master and Grand Patriarch, a member of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment, and treasurer of Capital Lodge No. 37, I. O. O. F., for the past twenty-five or thirty years. He has taken an active part in building up the fraternity, and still devotes a great deal of his time and attention to the organization of which he is an honored member.
+8	vii.	Max RAUH.
+9	viii.	Joseph STRAUS.
10	ix.	S STRAUS died before 1889.5
11	x.	Jacob D STRAUS6 died on 26 Nov 1904 in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri.6
+12	xi.	Sigmund VETSBURG.
+13	xii.	Louis WOLFERMAN.