Florian Schmidt and 2nd Wife Karolina Endler

Florian Schmidt and 2nd wife Karolina Endler sometime in the late 1860’s or early 1870’s in Freudenthal, Silesia, Austrian Empire. This is probably their wedding portrait. Joseph Schmidt, Florian’s eldest child reported that his mother, Anna Mary Hurnecke Schmidt, died when he was ten, so that would have been in 1868. It is assumed that Florian remarried soon thereafter the death of his first wife (he did, I will add the date here later). This is assumed since Joseph came to America in 1879 and his half sister (name is unknown) looks to be 6-8 years old in the surviving family portrait. Additionally, Joseph was 20 when he came to America, so he looks to be about 16ish in the family portrait. So that means that Florian and his second wife would have married quickly and had a child soon thereafter. This photo was preserved by Dick Meissner, the grandson of Anna (Schmidt) Froemel. He acquired it from his mother, Helen’s collection. Helen Meissner was a Froemel. The photo had been lost for many years, but was known since a photocopy of it was distributed at the Schmidt Family Reunion in 1989 (held at the Mt. Angel, OR Festhalle).