Rudolf L. Portenier ^360,361,362

   Another name for Rudolf was Rudolph Portenier.

  General Notes:

E-mail from Catherine Strasburg, catstrasburg@hotmail.com:
(Source probably Lillian Portenier) "Born April 7th and baptized on the 25th 1847. At the age of six he was seriously scalded by a kettle of boiling milk, accidentally spilled over him. He was disabled for one year. He came to Erie in April 1868 and left for Nebraska in August 1869. He took up a homestead six miles north of Guide Rock in 1873 but moved to Philip County later on. He died at the home of his son, Nick, at Fiat, near Howard, Kansas, June 6, 1927 and is buried in Severy, Kansas. He left four boys, Rudolf, Fred, Nick and Charles. "
This information is from Carol Kleppinger of Lincoln, NB:
Rudolph Portenier. Arrived in Erie, PA in April 1868. He went to homestead north Of Guide Rock near his sister Elizabeth in 1869, later moving to Phillips CO, Kansas.

  Events

• He had a residence in 1869 in Phillips County, Nebraska.

• He had a residence in Apr 1868 in Erie, Pennsylvania. ³⁶³

• He appeared on the census on 28 Apr 1910 in Phillipsburg, Phillips County, KS.

• He appeared on the census on 24 Jan 1920 in Salt Springs, Greenwood County, KS.

• He immigrated in 1868 to Switzerland. ³⁶¹

Rudolf married Margaret Clampett, daughter of John R Clampett and Sarah Jane Stoop.³⁵⁹ The marriage ended in divorce before 1910. (Margaret Clampett was born on 17 Jun 1861 in Nebraska ^172,304 and died in 1911 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.)

• Divorced: Divorced.