Carl Van Hoven: Genealogy Report

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Carl Van Hoven By Mona Magno-Veluz

AngkangPilipino.com Created on: 12 February 2012

CARL HENRY VAN HOVEN

OBJECTIVE This effort aims to expand the knowledge on Carl Van Hoven – his ancestry and his extended

family members in the United States and the Philippines – providing clarification on names,

dates and places, and acquiring documentation, when new information is unearthed.

FAMILY Birth. Carl Henry Van Hoven was born on 06 January 1875 in

Pine, Minnesota, United States to Edward Van Hoven and Louisa

Kruse.

Parents. Edward Van Hoven was born in January 1834 in the

Netherlands. In formal records, his name also appears as

Evenhardt, Everhadus and Everhardus – a Dutch name which he

very likely Americanized when he migrated to the United States

in 1864. He worked was a probate judge – a respected position

which oversees the proper disposition of the assets of deceased

individuals. He died on 22 May 1926 in Dickens, Clay, Iowa at

age 92.

Louisa H. Kruse was born in November 1850 in Germany. She was naturalized as an

American citizen in 1870. She died on 19 February 1924 in Dickens, Clay, Iowa at age 73.

Siblings. Carl had the following brothers and sisters:

1. Henrietta. She was born in 1872 in Pine, Minnesota.

2. George. He was born in June 1882 in Pine, Minnesota. He was a barber.

3. Edward. He was born in March 1887 in Minnesota. He was christened Evenhardt or

Everstrand, but like his father, he used the Americanized name in many records. He

died on 08 December 1907 in Cook, Illinois, after an accident where his body was

crushed.

4. Emma. She was born in July 1888 in Minnesota. He married Montana-born Charles

Ensley Looney Stockton, a farmer from Missouri. They had at least two children, Daniel

and Charles. More information on Charles Stockton’s ancestors and the couple’s

descendants may be found on-line.

5. Heinrich Christian Daniel. He was born in 11 October 1892 in Minnesota. He married

Lola Inez Moore of Wisconsin. Before he was drafted to fight in World War I, he worked

as a lumberman in Freeman, Clay, Iowa. In the 1920 US Census, his occupation was

general store proprietor. They had at least two children, Edward and Fred. More

information on Lola Moore’s ancestors and the couple’s descendants may be found on-

line.

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MILITARY CAREER Carl Van Hoven was 23 years old and residing in St. Paul, Minnesota when he enlisted as a

volunteer for the American campaign against Spain in 09 May 1898. On 16 May 1898, the

13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry departed Camp Ramsey, St. Paul, Minnesota, boarded

trains bound for San Francisco, California, where they completed their training.

After a brief training period at Camp Merritt, on 26 June 1898, the regiment steamed for

Manila. The troops stopped at Pearl Harbor on 05 July 1898 and remained there until 08

July, when their trip to the Philippines resumed. On 13 July 1898, the regiment reached

Manila Harbor. They remained on board the ship until August 7, when a landing was made

at Parañaque.

The 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in training before

departing for the Philippines.

http://collections.mnhs.org/battleflags/index.php/10000748

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A private under Company D of the 13th Minnesota Infantry (see Appendix A), Carl was

assigned as a stenographer at headquarters upon his deployment. The regiment set their

tents in a peanut field at Camp Dewey in Tambo, Parañaque. The 13th Minnesota

Volunteers were part of the 1st Brigade of American troops under the command of Brig. Gen.

Arthur C. MacArthur, Jr.

The 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry along the firing line, in

Manila in 1898.

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From 22 April until 26 May 1899, the 13th was split up into three battalions. PVT Van

Hoven's Company joined Major General Lawton and his expedition through Luzon. Their

orders were to capture all the important towns and to clear the Filipinos out of that area.

This expedition lasted thirty-three days, covered over one hundred miles, with the Americans

capturing twenty-eight towns and seizing or destroying large quantities of Filipino supplies.

PVT Van Hoven was injured in action and hospitalized in May 1899 in Manila. He was

honorably discharged from the military on 09 August 1899, opting to stay in Manila, instead

of returning with this Infantry, which sailed back to the United States the following day, on

10 August 1899, aboard the SS Sheridan.

On 12 October 1899, the 13th Minnesota Infantry arrived at the Minnesota state capital,

where they were greeted by thousands of families, friends and well-wishers -- President

McKinley and Governor John Lind were among them.

The Gatling gun crew of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

in 1898 or 1899.

http://www.spanamwar.com/McKinley.htm

http://www.spanamwar.com/McKinley.htm

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Carl Van Hoven stayed in Manila, until the late 1910s.

PERSONAL LIFE On 04 October, 1917, Carl Van Hoven passed the Philippine Bar Exams. In his US passport

application (see Appendix B) in 1918, he listed his occupation as “Attorney”. In the same

document he declared his wife Emilia, as his travelling companion.

In 1920, Carl’s name appears in the University of the Philippines Commencement

Programme. His address was “Kneedler Building, Manila”.

Carl appears in the 1930 US Census (see Appendix C) as “Charles Henry” as a resident of

California, together with his wife named Emilia, listed as born in Spain and of Spanish

descent. At age 54, he worked in an insurance company. It is apparent that Carl returned to

Manila in the late 1930s.

When war broke out in the early 1940s, Carl was residing in Manila. Being an American

civilian, he was rounded up together with his compatriots and imprisoned by the Japanese.

The University of Santo Tomas, which had been converted into a POW camp, was his home

during the war. He was released in December 1943.

Carl lived in Manila for the rest of his days. At the 51st reunion of the 13th Minnesota

Regimental Association in August 1949, his address was listed as “705 Sta. Mesa, Manila,

PI”. He died on 18 January 1955 in Quezon City, Philippines at age 80. He was, at this

time, married to Alvara Sanchez.

This is a stereographic image of the parade where President

McKinley and the Minnesota Governor John Lind welcomed the

13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry back from the Philippines.

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Carl is buried at the Manila North Cemetery at the Philippine-American War veterans’ plot.

NEXT STEPS 1. This preliminary report was prepared using on-line resources only. It would be

prudent to find other sources to enrich the genealogical study.

2. Interview senior family members to get preliminary data on wives and descendants

of Carl Van Hoven.

3. Consult microfilm records at the CLDS Family History Center to find data on Carl’s

Filipino family.

4. Plot the family tree on on-line collaboration platforms like Ancestry.com or Geni.com

to find other family members who may have the same ancestor.

5. Consult a genealogy specialist to conduct social history research on how other

ancestors lived and how they were relevant to significant events of their day.

6. Read the following books and reports at your leisure. Family members may be

interested to read Carl van Hoven mentioned in the following:

a. State of Minnesota. “Annual Report of the Minnesota Secretary of State”.

MN, USA: University of Minnesota, 1896.

b. Bowe, John. "With the 13th Minnesota in the Philippines". Minneapolis: US

Army, 1905.

c. Holbrook, Franklin F. "Minnesota in the Spanish American War and the

Philippine Insurrection". St. Paul, MN, USA: Riverside Press, 1923.

d. Stevens, Frederic Harper. “Santo Tomas Internment Camp: 1942-1945”.

Michigan: Stratford House Inc, 1946.

e. Ward, Kyle. “In the Shadow of Glory: The 13th Minnesota in the Spanish-

American and Philippine-American Wars, 1898 to 1899”. North Star Press,

1999.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDICES A. Carl Van Hoven - Military Records, 1899

B. Carl Van Hoven – Passport Application, 1918

C. Carl Van Hoven – US Census, 1930

D. Carl Van Hoven – WWII POW Report, 1944

E. Historical images of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

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APPENDIX A

Carl Van Hoven - Military Records, 1899

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APPENDIX B

Carl Van Hoven – Passport Application, 1918

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APPENDIX C

Carl Van Hoven – US Census, 1930

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APPENDIX D

Carl Van Hoven – WWII POW Report, 1944

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APPENDIX E

Historical Images of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

The 13th Minnesota Volunteers, acted as police, immediately after the mock battle of Manila.

In this photo taken in Manila in late 1898, the soldiers raid an opium den and arrest 4

Chinese addicts.

Filipino forces attack the barracks of the 13th Minnesota Volunteers during the Tondo Fire

in 1899. (Harper's Weekly, April 24, 1899 edition, drawn by G.W. Peters)

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The 13th Minnesota Infantry, Company C and M, guarding burned district of Tondo in 1899.

Company C, Thirteenth Minnesota, was in the thick of the fight in Tondo District, Manila.

[Photo is taken from an undated newspaper article.]

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The Company I, 13th Minnesota Volunteers, at mess, in Manila in 1899.

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