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- ca. 1836-1899 (Creation)
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The Brand family immigrated to the United States from Alsace. Philip Brand (b. 1813) arrived in 1837 to the Highland Park area (Deerfield/Northfield). He married Mary Salome Ott, also an emigrant from Alscace. They had 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls. The 5 boys of the family created the Brand Brothers Paint Company. Two brothers became artists of repute in Highland Park. William Enoch Brand was an artist. He worked with his siblings and his own projects. Orson Brand, the youngest son, was a photographer of great significance to the Highland Park area. His work documented Highland Park has images from its earliest conception. His daughter, Salome Brand Roeber, was a member of the first Highland Park Historical Society in 1934; and the re-birthed Highland Park Historical Society chartered in 1966.
*For more information on the Brand Family look to "Highland Park The First Hundred Years"
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The Ott family, Johann Jacob Ott, 48, his wife Maria, and children Jacob, Caspar, Christian, Lorenz, Philip, Magdalena (Mary?), emigrated to the United States from Alsace in the early 1830s. They first settled in Pennsylvania, later settling in Deerfield, Illinois. Mary Salome Ott married Philip Brand and settled in Highland Park, Illinois.
The Caspar Ott House, part of the Deerfield Historic Village, is the oldest standing dwelling in Lake County, Illinois.
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The consists of correspondence, vaccination records, confirmation certificates, receipts, and other documents arranged in chronological order by and documenting the Brand and Ott families in both Alsace and Illinois.
The first folder contains undated records and record fragments, the second contains correspondence and other papers.
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- German
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Processed by Claudia Nickson.