- Moritz Dobschutz
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Moritz J. Dobschutz , born as Moritz Julius von Dobschütz (* March 20, 1831 in Rheine, Westphalia, Germany; † June 24, 1913 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, USA), member of German nobility, immigrated 1856 into the USA and became a very prosperous merchant in Belleville.
His home in Belleville, a Victorian adaptation of a Greek revival house built in 1866, is now used by the Victorian Home Museum and by the St. Clair County Historical Society.
Categories:- 1831 births
- 1913 deaths
- American people of German descent
- German emigrants to the United States
- German nobility
- American merchants
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