GROSSER KURFURST - Sailed From Bremen Germany September 18, 1909 arriving in New York September 28, 1909
# FAMILY MEMBER BIRTH DATE BIRTH PLACE DEATH DATE DEATH PLACE
1280 ROSENFELDER,Pauline 12
Jul 1888 Jacobstal,Russia 5 Jul 1953 Flagstaff,Arizona
1350 ROSENFELDER,Jacob 5 Nov 1845 Malojaroslowetz,
1351 SCHLENKER,Anna Maria 10 Dec 1848 Malojaroslowetz,23 Sep 1909 At Sea
1356 ROSENFELDER,Friedrich Abt 1883 Russia
1357 ROSENFELDER, Mrs. Abt 1887 Russia
Final destination given as Irvine, Alberta
Pauline Rosenfelder came to America with her parents in 1909 and Married William Krausz 30 Jan 1910.
Grosser Kurfurst
Built by Schichau Shipyard, Danzig, Germany, 1900. 13,182 gross tons; 581 (bp)
feet long; 62 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engines, twin screw. Service
speed 15 knots. 788 passengers (299 first class, 317 second class, 172 third
class).
Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1900 and named Grosser Kurfuerst.
Bremerhaven-New York and Bremerhaven-Australia service. Laid up at New York
1914-1917. Seized by United States Navy, American flag, in 1917 and renamed USS
Aeolus. Transferred to the US Shipping Board in 1919. Chartered by Los Angeles
Steamship Company, in 1922 and renamed City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles-Honolulu
service. Laid-up 1933-37; scrapped in Japan in 1937.
Source: The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. American Family Immigration History Center