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Julius Herman Proeger

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1867–1945

Julius Herman Proeger

Probable

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1867–1945

Born
29 July 1867
Died
1945
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; his identity is proven — U.S. passport applications of 1917–1921 and a 1917 consular registration give Julius (H.) Proeger, born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh, wife Ida Waggoner Proeger; the Pennsylvania county marriages have Julius Proeger and Ida Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh; and the Florida death index has Julius H. Proeger, died 1945, Tampa. His parentage is probable: another user's shared tree lists him as a child of Julius and Sybylla Mine Kochendoerfer, and his brothers' and sisters' Social Security records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer of Pittsburgh, but no record read so far states his own parents

Evidence: His identity is proven by passports and his marriage; his siblings' records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer. Weak or missing: No record read so far names his own parents; the link comes from another user's tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1867
Born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh; married Ida Elizabeth Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh
Death1945
Died 1945, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida (year only). Not the same man as Julius Gustav Proeger of Wooster, Ohio (died 1950)
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 he was a clerk at 1836 Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh (Ward 19), aged 42, married 21 years, and gave both parents as born in Germany. The household was Ida W., 39, and their only child, son Edgar W., 19 S456. added 25 September 2026.
Census1922
🆕 In the 1920s he was a salesman at Colón, Panama, and a Freemason of Chagres Lodge in the Canal Zone, raised in 1922 and suspended in August 1928; his lodge card repeats his birth as Pittsburgh, 29 July 1867 S559. A June 1891 parish register baptises his son Edgar Wagner Proeger, born 22 June 1890 S560. added 25 September 2026.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1889
🆕 His 1889 marriage licence gives his name as “Julius Proeger Jr”, a clerk living at Uniontown; Ida Wagoner was born in Pittsburgh on 3 October 1869 and lived in the 32nd Ward S537. In 1930 he was a real-estate broker in Tampa, with Ida S546. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable eldest son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; brother of William Leonard Proeger, Frederick Albert, Luis Walter, Gotleib and Caroline

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Julius Herman Proeger · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S4561910 U.S. Federal Census — Julius H. Proeger household, Ward 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ED 531), 1836 Lang Avenue. Ancestry record 23848989. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Julius H. Proeger, 42, clerk, born Pennsylvania, both parents born Germany, married 21 years; Ida W., 39, mother of 1 child, 1 living; son Edgar W., 19; and a German-born servant. The servant is not kin, though the relationship column calls her “daughter”. German-born parents fit Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer, but the census does not name them.
  2. S537Pennsylvania, U.S., County Marriage Records — Allegheny County licence docket no. 16260, 1889. Ancestry record 2136798. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Julius Proeger Jr”, born Pittsburgh 29 July 1867, clerk, of Uniontown, Fayette County; Ida Wagoner, born Pittsburgh 3 October 1869, of the 32nd Ward, with the consent of A. C. Wagoner; licensed and married 12 June 1889 by Rev. W. J. Smalley.
  3. S5461930 U.S. Federal Census — Julius H. Praeger household, Tampa, Florida. Ancestry record 102978581. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Julius H. Praeger”, 62, real-estate broker, born Pennsylvania, parents born Germany; wife Ida W., 60; married at 21 and 19, their exact ages in June 1889.
  4. S559Masonic membership card — Chagres Lodge, Canal Zone: Julius Herman Proeger. Ancestry record 251264. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Born Pittsburgh, 29 July 1867; salesman at Colón, Panama; raised 1922; suspended 6 August 1928. The birth date and place match his 1917–1921 passport applications.
  5. S560Parish baptism register, Pittsburgh (Rev. R. J. Coster), June 1891. Ancestry record 16846432. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Edgar Wagner Proeger, son of Julius H. Proeger, born 22 June 1890. The same day the register baptises an Andrew Wagner, about 50 and “very ill”, at his home on Wyoming Street. Ida Waggoner lived on Wyoming Street when she married, but nothing on the page says he was her father.

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