George Theodore Gieseke was born on December 11, 1886, in Rural Courtland, Minnesota. George Jr. was the ninth of ten children of George Gieseke Sr. (b. 26 April 1846, Barsinghausen, Hanover) and Wilhelmine Marie Lange (b. 2 December 1849, Addison, Illinois). His siblings included: (Emily (1870), E[A]lwina (1872), Herman (1874), Heinrich (1876), Henrietta (1878), Alfred (1880), Samuel (1881), Sophia (1884), George Jr. (1886), and Frieda (1892).George worked for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad as cashier in the Freight Depot in New Ulm. Earlier he worked in the Burg Cigar Factory in New Ulm; the Rib Lake, Wisconsin, bank; and in the Fred Aufderheide Brickyard office.
George married Hertha Margaret Aufderheide (20 April 1894), fifth child of Fred and Elise Aufderheide, on 9 October 1917, in New Ulm. George and Hertha had a daughter, Carol Gieseke (Mrs. George) Baer, born on 26 October 1923, in New Ulm, and one granddaughter, Pamela Baer (Mrs. Robert) Schmutzler, born 6 October 1947, in Calabar, Nigeria. George died in Watertown, Wisconsin in March 1985.
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