Herman F BLOCHBERGER

Sources:

1885 Kansas State Census - Herman Blockberger family, Line: 23, image 949 of 1898
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Ancestry.com)
Public Member Trees
New.familysearch.org, Oct 2011, Feb 2012
Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, (extracted records)
1895 Kansas State Census - Herman Blochberger family, Line: 11, image 48 of 746

Notes:

                   LARRY_DODGE'S_OBSERVATIONS: This is interesting and fits the time and place.  There was an Edward Blochberger married to a Francis in Leavenworth also.  Not enough information to know for sure who it is.  I think the Edward Blochberger married to Francis was still alive in the 1905 Kansas State Census so it could be our Herman?  There is an Edmund or Edward Blochberger in early city directories for Leavenworth.  Are they related?
Kansas Semi Weekly Capitol (Topeka, Kansas)  Volume:  XIX   Issue: 51    Page: 2
          BROKE HIS SKULL
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A Groceryman Uses a Heavy Shovel On a
               Leavenworth Butcher
Special to the Capital.
     Leavenworth, Kan. June 23, --Tonight
at 7 o'clock.  Edward Blockberger, a
butcher, was hit in the head with a shovel
and possibly fatally injured by Henry
Woerner, proprietor of a grocery store.
     Woerner was unloading some cinders, in
a manner which Blochberger claimed
would interfere with the opening of a
gate to his premises.  Blochberger de-
manded that woerner desist and on his
refusal to do so went into the house and
brought out a pistol to shoot him.  When
Blochberger pointed it at Woerner the
latter felled him to the ground by break-
ing his skull with a blow from a heavy
shovel.
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SPECULATION: 1894 City Directory Herman is Listed
1895 Kansas State Census herman is with his family
1896 Directory Martha is listed as the widow of Herman.  He had to have died before they printed the 1896 City Directory.