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Name: Auguste Hueber
Arrival Date: 29 Aug 1887
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Le Havre, France
Destination: New York
Place of Origin: Switzerland
Ship Name: La Gascogne
Port of Arrival: New York
Line: 3 Microfilm Serial: M237 Microfilm Roll: 510 List Number: 1096
Port Arrival State: New York Port Arrival Country: United States
From New York there was a "Costal Path" to Lake Erie where a boat could have been taken, and somehow navagate or trail around Wisconsin to Lake Michigan. There were trains at Chicago that went to Whiteside Co., since 1860