On 21 May 1895 at the age of 15, Louis Hüsing sailed from Hamburg, Germany via Le Harve, France on the SS California bound for the United States.
He arrived at Ellis Island in the port of New York on 8 June 1895. A passenger departure list for this voyage records his “Bisheriger Wohnort ” (previous residence) as Buer, Hann (Hannover) and his occupation as “Laborer”. He traveled alone.
Six years later at the age of 21, Louis married his first wife, Martha Mariacher, on 09 April 1901 in Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
At 26 years old, having lived in the United States for 11 years, Louis filed a Declaration of Intention for Naturalization in Brooklyn, New York on 23 July 1906, whereby he renounced his allegiance to the Emperor of Germany and swore an Oath of Allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States.
A Petition for Naturalization was signed that same day with Testimony of Reference signed by August Husing, 910 Union Street, Brooklyn, occupation Steward, citizen of the United States, “Brother”, who swore he had know Louis “all his life”.
In this same document, Louis stated that he also lived at 910 Union Street in Brooklyn and since arriving in June of 1895 he had also resided in: Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, while living continuously for one year in the state of New York since July 1905.
Information on Louis and his descendants is accurate based on public records. Those source records will be added as time permits.
Information on the ancestors of Louis Husing is speculative at present but exists for the purpose of future exploration and is still a work in progress. Surnames here include spelling variations of Hüsing, Hussing, Huesing; not all have been connected but are recorded in the event that such data may one day be relevant to this study.