Henry Aberth's Immigration

I noticed that Lori had a copy of George Aberth's (my great-great-grandpa's) immigration documents from his arrival in NY from Germany in 1912. Also, my mom had given me a scanned hard copy of that same doc a few years ago, so it must have been circulating through the family for a while.

But I also noticed that we didn't have the immigration document for the first Aberth to come to America – Henry, George's son – who came to America alone in 1898 when he was just 14.

Anyway, today – with the help of all the info on Lori's Ancestry.com family tree – I found it online!

Henry's name is misspelled slightly: "Heinrich Alberth", which is why it was harder to find. But he's listed as being:

• 14
• male
• a farmer
• from Steinselz
• headed to Wooster, OH
• to be received there by his uncle (which I think may have been a bit of a fib – according to George's memoir it was a family friend – does anyone know about this?)
• and possessing $4(!)

So despite the misspelling, this must be our Henry Aberth. The 1898 date, as well as every column of data, jibes with all of the US Census data Lori has collected on Henry and it also jibes with the info in his dad George's memoir. And the small town of "Steinselz" is the clincher.

It looks like Henry sailed out of Le Havre, France (rather than Germany), on April 30th 1898 aboard a steam boat called "La Touraine", & arrived on May 8, 1898. I haven't been able to find his French departure documents online – but my French is a little rusty ;).