Mr. Blaine to Mr.
Phelps.
Department
of State,
Washington, November 11,
1891.
No. 329.]
Sir: I transmit a copy of a letter of C. R. Miller,
of Adrian, Mich, relative to a notice from an imperial court of Germany,
served on Charles E. Heinzman, to report for military duty or suffer the
penalty set forth.
As Charles E. Heinzman appears to have come to this country with his mother,
then wife of a citizen of the United States (Mr. James Ellegat), when only
13 years old, and to have resided ever since in Illinois or Michigan, while
he also holds a formal certificate of naturalization, dated October 4, 1889
(copy inclosed), it is not understood why this order for military duty in
Germany has been issued. You will bring the matter to the attention of the
foreign office.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 329.]
Mr. Miller to Mr.
Blaine.
Adrian,
Mich., November 2,
1891.
Dear Sir: I respectfully call attention to the
accompanying papers:
- No. 1. A notice from the imperial court at Bischweiler,
Alsace, Germany.
- No. 2. Affidavit by Charles E. Heintzman.
- No. 3. Affidavit by Mrs. Frederika Ellegat.
- No. 4. Certificate of naturalization of Charles E. Heintzman
as a citizen of Michigan and of the United States.
The notice in suhstance orders him to report for military duty in the
German army in fifty days from date of the citation or that his
inheritance from his grandfather will he mulcted 600 marks. He
respectfully requests the intervention of the State Department of the
United States to protect him in his rights as a citizen of the United
States.
C. R. Miller
,
for Mr. Charles E. Heintzman.
Affidavit of Charles E. Heintzman.
United States of
America,
State of Michigan, County of
Lenawee:
Charles E. Heintzman, being hy me duly sworn, deposes and says that he is
the Karl E. Heintzman mentioned in the accompanying notice or citation.
That he formerly resided at Bischweiler Alsace, Germany, after the death
of his father in 1871, either with his grandfather, Charles Heintzman,
or with his grandmother Frederika Lauft (part of the time with one and
part with the other) until the year 1881 at which time he was thirteen
years old. At that time my mother (then married to James Ellegat, a
citizen of the United States) came and took me and my brother Alfred C.
with her to the United States where she then resided, for a time at
Chicago
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in the State of
Illinois, and for the last ten years she and her husband hare resided
and now reside at Adrian, Mich., United States of America. That from the
year 1881 and up to the present time he has resided with his mother at
the city of Chicago and at Adrian, Mich., and now resides with her at
Adrian, Mich. That he is a fully naturalized citizen of the State of
Michigan and of the United States, and for evidence thereof refers to
his certificate of naturalization herewith forwarded.
Subscribed and sworn to before me at
Adrian, Mich., this November 2, 1891.
C. R. Miller,
Notary Public in and for Lenawee County, Mich.
State of Michigan, United States of
America, Lenawee County, ss:
Mrs. Frederika Ellegat, being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that she
resides in the city of Adrian, in said county and State, and has resided
therein over ten years and has resided in the United States for the last
eighteen years.
That she is now the wife of James Ellegat. That she was formerly married
to Charles Heintzman and lived with him at Bischweiler in the province
of Alsace, Germany. That her said first husband died in December 1871.
That deponent had by said Heintzman two children, Karl Emil, now
twenty-three years old, and Alfred Christian, who died unmarried July
14th, 1891, at the city of Adrian, Mich.
That said two children remained at Bischweiler with their grandfather,
Christian Heintzman, until on or about June 1, 1880, when this deponent
took them with her to the United States, with her and her second
husband, Jamas Ellegat, who is a native-born citizen of the United
States. That from 1871 to the present date her said son Charles (or
Karl) Emil Heintzman has resided with her and her husband at the city of
Chicago, Ill., for one year, and for the last ten years at said city of
Adrian in the State of Michigan, United States of America. That said
Charles (Karl) Emil Heintzman is a duly naturalized citizen of the
United States, having been admitted to full citizenship on October 4, A.
D. 1889, at Adrian, Mich., as appears by his certificate of
naturalization duly executed under the seal of the circuit court for the
county of Lenawee, in the State of Michigan, which is herewith attached
and forwarded.
That her said son, Karl Emil Heintzman, is one of the heirs at law of his
said grandfather, Christian Heintzman, now deceased, late of
Bischweiler, Alsace, Germany, and further says not.
Subscribed and sworn before me at the city of Adrian, State of
Michigan, United States of America.
[
seal.]
C. R. Miller,
Notary Public in
and for Lenawee County and State of
Michigan.
Certificate of naturalization of Charles E.
Heintzman.
1776.
1812.
The United States of North
America.
certificate of
naturalization.
State of Michigan,
Lenawee County, ss:
I, George W. Fleming, clerk of the circuit court for the county of
Lenawee and State of Michigan (the said court being a court of record,
having common law jurisdiction, and a clerk and seal), do hereby certify
that Charles E. Heintzman is a citizen of the United States of America,
duly naturalized according to the laws of said United States, to which
citizenship he was admitted in open court, held at the court-house in
the city of Adrian, county and State aforesaid, on Friday, the fourth
day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, as appears from the records of said circuit court now in my
office.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said circuit court the 4th day of October.
A. D. 1889.
[
seal.]
George W. Fleming,
County
Clerk.
