Johannes Huber and Catharina Friess
Johannes and his first wife Catharina Friess had three children, of whom only Maria Anna survived childhood. Maria Anna didn't marry, so there were no descendants.

Johannes Huber and Margaretha Mack
After Catharina died at age 28, Johannes married Margaretha Mack, with whom he fathered 14 children, of whom eight survived to adulthood. Here is a photo of Johannes Huber and Margaretha Mack with six of their children and one child from his first marriage. Karl and Georg are not in the photo.

left to right: Abraham/Albert, Katharina, Rosa, Margaretha, Elise, Johannes, Anna Maria (daughter of Catharina Friess), Anna Maria Margaretha, Johann/Jean

The eight grown children of Johannes and Margaretha all emigrated. According to Johannes' great-grandson Peter Mauch of Lörrach, it was economic hard times: "They had no future in Mannheim." After Johannes and Margaretha died (she in 1863, he in 1877), the last of the children emigrated and the property was sold.

Sidebar: Earlier Emigration to Pennsylvania Another group of Hubers had already left the area: Andreas Huber was born in 1723 at Ellerstadt, current population 2,000, about 5 kilometers west of Oggersheim. Ellerstadt, Oggersheim, Friesenheim, and Mannheim today At age 15 he followed his two brothers to Lancaster County Pennsylvania. In America he changed his name to Andrew Hoover, married, and moved to Maryland then to North Carolina. His great-great-great-grandson Herbert Hoover became president of the United States. Source: Hulda Hoover McLean, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family. Here are some Hoover-related links. In North America, the name Huber is usually pronounced HEW-ber, but the anglicized spellings Hoover and Hooper preserve the German pronunciation.

Emigration to Russia
Karl, Katharina, and Johann emigrated to St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire. Elise emigrated first to San Francisco, then to St. Petersburg, where she married Stephan Christian Mauch, whose sister Wilhelmina had already married Elise's brother Karl. After the revolution in Russia, Karl, Johann, and Elise returned to Germany.

• Katharina died in Russia without marrying.
• Elise married Stephan Christian Mauch of Ziegelhausen. He died in Russia in 1914. Their descendants now live in Germany and Switzerland. Surnames: Kunisch, Mauch, Wolf, and Rick.
  
• Johann, also called Jean, never married, and died in Berlin.
• Karl prospered in the Baku oil fields. Karl married Wilhelmina Mauch, whose brother Stefan later married Karl's sister Elise. They had sons named Otto and Karl. I have no more information on Karl and his descendants.

Emigration to America
Georg emigrated to New Mexico. Rosa, Anna, and Abraham went to San Francisco.

• Georg never married.
• In San Francisco, Rosa married Eduard Ziesche of Berlin. Their descendants live in California and Colorado. Surnames: Newman, Kerth, Allen.
• In San Francisco, Anna married Karl Flammer of Tübingen. Their descendants live in California and Oregon. Surnames: Flammer, Walling, Martin, Coit. Their grandson Carson (originally Carsten) was the author of Spheroidal Wave Functions (Stanford University Press, 1957).
• In San Francisco, Abraham changed his name to Albert. He married Sophia Roos of Alsace. Their descendants live in California, Utah, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, and Japan. Surnames: Huber, Guerra, Hargrave, Hennesy, Laurie, Lowenthal, Mackey, Moreau, and Quinn.

The Immigrants Gather in San Francisco
Circa 1900, Anna Huber and her family, Abraham/Albert Huber and his family, Johann/Jean Huber (visiting from Berlin), and the husband and children of the late Rosa Huber, gathered for this portrait. To see captioned portions of the photo, click Anna, Abraham, or Rosa.

Five of the same people* were involved in the photos below, taken approximately fifty years later.

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