A possible entry location could be the Steubenville, OH area. Census records & other documents from Paola, Miami County, KS, for a German immigrant from Baden named Alois (Aloes/Louis) Brodmann, indicate that he traveled to KS from OH. He can be found in the 1880 Fed. census and 1885 KS state census. A researcher I hired in KS discovered information that Alois was married to a woman named Carrie.. who it appear's did not emigrate with him. They had a son named Theodor(e) who was born in Meersburg, Germany on 24 Dec 1862. Theodore emigrated to America in 1890-1891, worked in Gainesville, TX for nine yrs., and then settled in Paola, KS around 1900. He never married. I'm trying to connect these men to my gr. grandmother, Caroline Brodman. She emigrated from Baden Germany in 1881 & lived in Steubenville, OH until she married Willard McGrew in 1883. They live in the Pittsburgh, PA area from 1884 onward but traveled to Paola, KS where their only son, Alois (Louis) was born in 1887. The family was back in Pittsburgh in 1889 when my grandmother, Laura, was born. I'm assuming that the trip to KS was to visit a relative, Alois. I have no information on Caroline's Germany ancestry except that she was born in 1859. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update: Sept. 2015
Recent information has made it possible to confirm the relationship between Caroline (Brodman) McGrew and Alois and Theodore Brodman of Paola, KS. In 1897 Caroline McGrew filed a lawsuit (#4774) against Theodore Brodman in the Miami County, KS district court records. The lawsuit states that Alois Brodman, her father, died in 1896 and owned a little over nine acres of property at the time. The document goes on to say that Alois had four children who were entitled to a share of the property. They included Caroline, Theodore, Wilhelm (William) and Emma (nickname). Caroline was suing for her share of the property. Years later, 1903, the court ruled that Caroline was entitled to half of the property. Two of her siblings had never been in the U.S. and so they were not entitled to any part of the property. The court ruled that Theodore and Caroline each were entitled to half of the property. It's unclear if any restitution was ever made to Caroline but her brother lived on the property into the 1940's.