Frank Aufmkolk

A newspaper article announced the death of Frank Aufmkolk's mother, Angelina Aufmkolk, a native of Westphalia, Prussia. It announced that friends of the family and brothers of Germania Lodge No. 46, F, and A.M., and members of German Louisiana Draymen's society would be attending. T

 Times-Picayune, November 17, 1875, Page 1 

One of the signatories who pledged to help those in need from the 1893 hurricane that affected Bayou Cook, Grand Isle, Cheniere Camanada, St. Malo Island, Buras Settlement, Point-a-la-Hache, Grand Prairie, and other places in south Louisiana. 

Times-Picayune, October 5, 1893, page 6.

Died April 1894. His obituary reads that he immigrated to the United States in 1848, working as a drayman, then a mariner, and eventually owning several schooners and luggers and a grocery. He was president of the German Louisiana Draymen's Benevolent Association in 1854. In 1878, he was president of the Mariners' Mutual Protective Association, a member of German Lodge No. 46, F. and A.M. One of his daughters married Mr. Frank C. Meyers, from Plaquemines Parish. It reads that he was one of the oldest subscribers of the New Orleans Picayune  (now TImes-Picayune) - he began subscribing in 1849, soon after his arrival to New Orleans, and that he read the newspaper every day for forty-four years.

Mortuary Notice, Times-Picayune, April 20, 1894, page 12