Family Ancestry

My adopted parents and grandparents:
My mom and dad, Larry and Jeannine Hollst
My Grandpa Dorwyn and Grandma Mary Fryman.
They were farmers and grandpa also worked as a teacher 
and then chemist before retiring in 1975.
My Grandpa Edward and Grandma Teresa Hollst (trying to locate child pic of Teresa).
Both grandpa and grandma worked in factories throughout their lives.
They retired in the early 1970's. 

     The Fryman/Shaffer lineage began in Germany and were in America prior to 1776. Several ancestors fought in the American Revolution including a man named Jacob Hoover who served in the German Regiment. Many were Pennsylvania-Dutch and lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Another ancestor is my 6xGreat Grandfather Reverend Johan Casper Stoever, who was the first Lutheran Minister ordained in the Americas. He performed hundreds of baptisms and marriages. Both families eventually settled in western townships of Montgomery County, Ohio near Dayton. Dorwyn Clifford and Mary Elizabeth were married in 1934 or 1935. 

     The Hollst/Meyers (Mayerski) lineage also began in Germany and Eastern Europe but did not arrive in America until after 1875. The Hollst's came here and settled in Chicago in the 1880's. My great-grandfather Arthur Hollst worked as a conductor for many years on the Southern Chicago Railroad. My grand-grandfather Michael Meyers (Mayersky) immigrated in 1906 from Hungary/Austria. He settled in Dayton, Ohio and was foreman at the Requarth Lumber Company for a number of years. Edward Adolf Charles moved to Dayton from Chicago in the early 1930's and met Teresa Rose; they were married in 1937.