Fifth Ward Councilman: 1869 A Tennessee native, Samuel R. McCamy first appears in Murray County, Georgia in the 1840 U.S. federal census with one 10-to-24-year-old male slave. He married Elizabeth A. Bishop in April 1844, and the 1850 U.S. federal census found Samuel, a 36-year-old merchant with $10,000 in real estate, living with his family…
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Huss Melanchthon Beutell (1849–1919)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1887, 1888; Fifth Ward Alderman: 1900, 1907, 1908, 1909 A son of John Michael and Ann Eliza (_____) Beutell, Huss was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1849. 15-year-old Huss enlisted in the 10th Regiment of New York Infantry (popularly called the “National Zouaves”) in August 1864 and served until his…
Elias Haiman (1843–1914)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1883, 1884 Born in Kolmar in the Prussian territory of Posen (now Chodzież, Poland) in 1843, Elias Haiman was the son of Hirsch and Theresa (_____) Haiman. He immigrated with his family in 1856 and settled in Columbus, Georgia, where the 1860 U.S. federal census found him employed as a tinner. When…
Philip Breitenbucher (1842–1916)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1903, 1904 Philippe Breitenbücher was born in 1842 in Hohwiller, a tiny Alsatian hamlet. He was the son of Philippe and Julienna Salome (Zittel) Breitenbücher. He came to the States around 1856 and lived for a while in Buffalo, New York where he was a silver plater’s apprentice in 1860. He soon…
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