Christian Puscheck

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Christian G. Puscheck

also known as Christoph Puscheck (Puscheck sometimes spelled Puschek)

Date of Birth	circa 1802
Date of Death	1861
Birth Place	Prussia
Occupation	Grain farmer	Also raised livestock, which one of his sons continued to do.
Buried
Wife	Anna Rosina nee Chuebsch	At time of immigration, her name was spelled Rosena. Also found in one source as Anna Rosina nee Chebsch.
Wife's Date of Birth	1831
Wife's Place of Birth	Prussia or Luzine, Silescia
Wife's Date of Death	June 17, 1872
Wife's Resting Place		"Immanuel" Proviso Cemetery
Place and Date of Marriage
Wife's Biography
Date of US Immigration	1839
Route of Immigration	Sources state he immigrated to America in 1839 from Provinz Silesia Kreisoels.	Christian Gottlieb Puscheck and his family came to America and first settled on a maple farm in Minnesota or Wisconsin. The family traveled to Proviso Township in a covered wagon.
Description of Land First Owned	Settled in Lyons Township in 1845	In Proviso Township, settled in Section 16. Total land owned was more than 200 acres.

Children:

Name	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Date of Death	Spouse
Helen	1826	Prussia
Karl	1827 possibly August 17	Prussia	December 28, 1886	Karl married Susannah Steritzkey, May 2, 1854 at Zion Lutheran in Bensenville
Anna Rosina	1831	Prussia
Wilhelm	1834	Prussia
John Gottlieb, Johann Gottlieb, or Karl Gottlieb	1835 possibly September 29	Kurzwitz, KreisOels, Begierungsbezirks Breslau, Kingdom of Pressuen		Married: Marie Steinel on June 7, 1856

Additional Biographical Information:

Christian joined with eight other families in 1852 to obtain permission to form a school district in the immediate locale of Franzosenbusch centered near 22^nd Street (Cermak) and Wolf Road.
In 1857, Christian joined with others of his community (including John Schulz, Friedrich Haase, Friedrich Weiss, August Heidorn, Heinrich Ehrenpfort, Heinrich Runge, Seigfried Kolb, Charles G. Puscheck and C. Seegers) to establish a church in the immediate vicinity. In 1858 the group petitioned the Zion church Churchville (Bensenville) and their request was granted.
In 1858, Charles G., Christian and John G. Puscheck were charter members of the Immanuel Lutheran congregation.
The Puscheck farm was divided between the Gottlieb and Karl after the death of their parents.
Karl married Susannah Steritzkey, May 2, 1854 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran in Bensenville (Churchville).
Karl/John/Johann Gottlieb married Maria Steinel (from Silesia) June 7, 1856. Maria Steinel was born January 30, 1838. She died may 30, 1912. Karl and Maria has 12 children -- Susanna (married Henry Meyer), Charles H. (married Clara Zuttermeister), Friedrich J. (married Louise Ahrens), Mary (married Henry Heidorn), Helena (married Adolph Ulrich), John P. (Emma Mandel), Mathilde (died at an age of eight), Henry W. (married Minna Meine), Bertha, Anna, Edwin J. (married Amanda Heidorn) andAdele (married Martin Heidorn)
Puscheck Road was renamed Gardner Road Street in Broadview, but it remains Puscheck Road in Bellwood.

To see the bibliography for this entry, click on the Founding Fathers--Bibliography

We welcome any comments, questions and corrections. In accumulating this information we have found conflicting evidence. We have endeavored to use the most reliable sources available BUT we can not be sure we have all of the facts completely accurate. We need your help. More information from the families of these nine "Founding Fathers" would be of great value to this ongoing project in order to maintain accuracy. At this time, we are especially interested in photos, journals, letters, etc., which would describe the southeast corner of 22^nd Street (Cermak) and Wolf Road in Hillside, prior to the 1860's. This will help us now, as we work on the restoration.

Please feel free to contact me at j.arbuthnot@sbcglobal.net. I will route your email through our other researchers.

The primary compiler of this information was Lana Gits with:

Jim Arbuthnot
Larry Godson
Drew Reaves
Patricia Reaves
Shirley Slanker

Last Modified: 10/06/2002