CHARLES (CARL) HAMMELBACHER was born 1887 in Hamburg, Germany. On September 21, 1925, Carl Heinrich Veil Hamelbacher, ae 48, declared his Intention to become a US Citien in Seldovia Alaska saying he was born in Hamburg Germany on October 17, 1876; he emigrated to the US on the vessel Alice A Leigh arriving at the port of San Francisco on Sept 2, 1906.
He married Florence Bowen, of the Bowen family from Kodiak. She had been married in Kodiak but her husband and child died in an epidemic in Afognak. And then she married Charles Richard Olssen and they had 5 children. After he died, she married Carl Hammelbacher.
He died 1938 in Seldovia, Alaska and is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery in Plot #92. Florence moved to Seattle where she spent the rest of her life.