Schrempp Family Page

Ben and Elieen have four children Jim, Mike, Nancy and Bob.  Mike is married to Gwen, Nancy is married to Greg Haldeman they have two childeren (Steven and Emily) and Bob is married to Katie Rosenbrock.

For more information check out Jim's Family Page.

SCHREMPP

Dad's side of the family
Family Names: Engelhorn (Englehorn)

We a re Descendants of the "Mathias Line"

Here is ouor branch Mathias ENGLEHORN

Grandpa Schrempp

Josef Schrempp was born in Gengenbach Germany in 1902. Here is a scan of his birth Certificate and a tranlation:

Birth Certificate No. 66

Gengenbach, October 28 1902.

Before the signing registrar appears today, known in person, Karl Schrempp, Blacksmith resident in Gengenbach, of catholic religion, and announced, that of Franziska Schrempp, maiden name of Suhm, his wife, of catholic religion, resident in his house, in Gengenbach in his house, on October 26^th of the year 1902, in the morning at 9:30 am a boy was born and that this child received the first name of Josef.

Read, approved and signed

Karl Schrempp, Blacksmith.

The Registrar:

By Proxy:

F. X. SchweiB, Clerk

It is hereby confirmed that this excerpt matches the main birth record of Gengenbach pro 1902.

Grandpa Schrempp immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1923. He sailed on the S. S. Mount Clay from Hambug Germany on 9 August 1923 arriving at Ellis Island on 20 August 1923 with $25 in his pocket. His final destination was Vineburg California (near Napa) the home of his uncle, Bernhard Schrempp.

The following information is off the Ellis Island website. When I look at the image of the original ship manifest, the image does not support the data they are giving. They seem to have an error in their data.

Bernhard (1886 - 1949) arrived in the US via Ellis Island on 13 April 1907. Bernhard came from Lissen. He sailed out of Havre on the La Savoie.

Here is a link to the Ellis Island web. You can do a search by name of the ship Manifests. Here is a link directly to the search page. You can get basic information, to get more details you have to register with a free account.

Note: My scanner is not big enough to scan the birth certificate in one pass.

Grandma Schrempp

KOLM

Mom's Side of the Family.
Family Names: Kolm • Lüneburg • Maack • Klauck • Hübner/Höfner • Schroeder • Bernitt • Hilmers • Voelters • Frehse • Darde • Frehse • Friese • Lewis • Betts • Jenkins• Metcalf(e)• Hopkins • Lynch • Quinn • Ryan

Grandpa Kolm

Leland "Lee" Kolm

From the A-T-E Journal, May 1939
The ATE Journal began in 1935 as a publication for the engineers at NBC. In August of 1941 it became the Broadcast Engineers' Journal and was directed at the technical staff of all the networks and N.A.B.E.T. members.

This month's Person-AIR-ity is none other than Leland B. Kolm. Lee was born December second, 1911, in Schuyler, Nebraska, and shortly thereafter moved with his family to Coos Bay, Oregon. When about five years old another move took him to Portland, Oregon where he grew up and attended school. While attending Polytechnical High in Portland, Lee decided to follow radio as a career. He joined the school radio club and very soon had his first amateur call, W7WY. With the idea in mind of operating the broadcast station KBPS owned by the high school, after graduation in 1930 Lee attended Oregon Institute of Technology where he brushed up on his code and theory to enable him to obtain his second class commercial license. This obtained, instead of joining KBPS, he joined KEX in May, 1931 as relief transmitter operator. When NBC took over in the fall of 1931 he became a full fledged studio and transmitter engineer. In 1934 KEX and KGW consolidated their studios so Lee moved on to KFJR as a relief operator for a while and then on to KIEM in Eureka California as chief operator and announcer. While at KIEM he helped build and install a separate transmitter building and change from 100 to 500 watts. Came February of 1937 and Lee moved on to NBC San Francisco where after a very short time he started plugging patches on the board. With his six feet four he has found little difficulty in reaching the highest parts of the tall board. Married in 1933. to Kathleen Lewis of Portland, Lee is the proud father of three children: Richard, who is four, Eileen who is three, and David who is two. Despite the ages he wants it known that he is not gunning for the record held by Maher of Chicago. Lee claims as hobbies kids, gardening, and sightseeing -a group that keeps him more than busy. He had one bout with music and theatricals as usher and automatic organ player in a Portland theater. Trying to improve on the limited capacities of the automatic organ he rigged a Victrola through an amplifier to a loud speaker behind the screen. It worked but the young audience hooted the Victrola recordings so Lee decided he had better stick with radio.

Grandpa worked for NBC Radio in SF for 30 or 40 years. Brother Jim has a page about Grandpa's days at NBC.

Peggy Kolm

Brian Kolm

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