Albert T. Kuhne
Request information on Albert T. Kuhne, also spelled last name as Kuhn....and also "King".
NAME:Albert T. Kuhne (King)
BORN:probably 1817 PLACE:Prussia
DIED:22 JAN 1890PLACE:Harrisburg, PA.Reported age 77.
CAUSE: Run over by locomotive in the PRR yards on Tuesday, 21 JAN 1890.
SPOUSE:Mary E. McGlinn of Lancaster, PA
DATE OF MARRIAGE:30 SEP 1856by Rev. John Jacob Strine of the Lutheran Church near Lancaster.
MILITARY SERVICE:Enlisted, as a private, in Harrisburg on 01 MAY 1861 for a period of 3 months in a company, raised by William K. Verbeke.Upon mustering into service of the United States, this company became Company E, of the 15th PA Volunteers, under CAPT John Nevins. Injured in action at battle of Falling Waters, WV approximately 1 July 1861.
IMMIGRATION:Albert became a citizen of the United States on 22 SEP 1852.Information is from the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Philadelphia...That on the 22nd day of September 1852, Albert Kuhne appeared and did depose and say that he is a native of Germany, now residing in the City of Philadelphia, aged 24 years, or thereabouts, and that it is bona fide his intention to become a Citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the Grand Duke of Baden of whom he is now a Subject. .......That he declared on oath that he had arrived in the Port of New York in the year 1846..."Attested to and vouched for byErhard Kuhne
His name and age varied often.From the index of marriages solemnized by the Rev. John Jacob Strine: for 30 SEP 1856, He's Albert T. Keehney...and in another marriage listing, he's Albert Keenney....married to Mary Elizabeth McGlinn of Lancaster Township.There were many instances when he gave his age, but all pointed to different birth years.Most were for 1817.
An account statement entitled "Account Estate of Albert T. Kuhne (King) dec'd, Commonwealth Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co., Ex., from May & June of 1891, indicates that Commonwealth Guarantee, first executors of Albert's will, credited "To amount received from the estate of Frederika Henrietta Wilhelmine Van Haussen, being the proceeds of an inheritance of 1874 marks, 12 pfg, less Court costs and expenses of collection...$420.07".