page_title: Carl Joseph Friedrichs
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Joseph Friedrichs / Background
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Geburtsurkunde
context_page_description: Carl Joseph Friedrichs was a German printer, author and gold prospector referred to as the leader of "The Germans" who found in 1865 the famed Montana Bar during the Montana Gold Rush.
context_section_description: Carl Joseph was born in the town and head of the district seat Cochem in Germany as a son of the Tithe-Collector Peter Friedrichs (1799–1849) and his wife Maria Margaretha born Schubert (1799–1844). On March 31, 1844 his mother died after a Doctor had carried out a Bloodletting procedure for medical purposes. After his father came home from working on the fields getting the bad news he suffered an Apopletic fit and was then half-page paralyzed. Friedrichs was given to custody in the household of his grand-aunt there he finished his schooltime and started an apprenticeship as a Printer. In 1848, during the hightime of German revolutions of 1848–49, Friedrichs decided to change the educational printery and moved to Wittlich to continue his apprenticeship. After his father died in 1849 and after and argue with his apprentice's employer in 1850 he left Germany with the intend to emigrate to the United States.
caption: Birthcertificate of Carl Joseph Friedrichs
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