Bartholomew Lehner citizenship
Certified copy of the record of admission of [blank] to be a Citizen of the United States.
State of Wisconsin, } ss
County of Dane.
The Municipal Court, of the County of Dane.
In the Matter of the Application of Bartle Lehner to become a citizen of the United States.
I, Bartle Lehner do swear, that I believe in and am not apposed to organized government, that I am not a member of, or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching disbelief in, or opposition to all organized government; and that I have not heretofore and do not now, advocate or teach, or believe in the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals, or of officers generally, of the government of the United States, or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character; that I have not violated any of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act to regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the United States," approved March 3d, 1903, and further that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure forever, all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign power, Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the Emperor of Germany who subject I was, and further that I have never borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the degrees of nobility of the country whereof I have been a subject, and that I have resided within the United States for five years last past, and in the State of Wisconsin for one year last past.
[signature] Bartle Lehner
Subscribed and sworn to in open court, this 19th day of September 1906.
F. E. Currier Clerk.
State of Wisconsin, } ss
County of Dane.
The Municipal Court, of the County of Dane.
Philip Bettinger and Ed. Frank being severally sworn, do depose and say, each for himself, that he has been well acquainted with the above named Bartle Lehner for more than five years past; that during all of said period the said Bartle Lehner has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States, and for one year last past within the State of Wisconsin; and that during the same period he has behaved himself as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; that during the said period he has not been a member of, or affiliated with, any organization entertaining and teaching disbelief in, or opposition to, organized government, that he has not advocated or taught the duty, necessity or propriety, of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer, or officers, either of specific individuals or officers generally, of the government to the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character; that he has not during said period violated any of the provisions of an act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An Act to Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the Unites States," approved March 3d, 1903.
[signatures] Philp Bettinger, Ed. Fronk
Subscribed and sworn to in open court, this 19th day of September 1906.
F. E. Currier Clerk
32 [page number]
State of Wisconsin, } ss
County of Dane.
The Municipal Court, of the County of Dane.
And Now, To-wit, At a session of said Court now being held at Madison, in and for the County of Dane, in said State, the oath an affidavit required by an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the Unites States," approved March 3d, 1903, having heretofore been made and recorded upon the Records of this Court, upon said oath and affidavit and upon further proof having been made by the production of a certificate that the said Bartle Lehner did, before a Clerk of the Circuit Court of Iowa Co. Wis the same being a court of record, having common law jurisdiction, make the requisite declaration of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce all other allegiance, as required by the laws of the United States; it is ordered by the Court that the said Bartle Lehner be and he is hereby admitted to be, a Citizen of the United States.
By the Court,
F. E. Currier Clerk.
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Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society, Archives (4th floor), Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Index card:
Family name: Lehner
Given name or names: Bartle
Address: [blank]
Certificate no. (or vol. and page): A6-32
Title and location of court: Mun. Ct., Madison, Dane (Co., Wis.)
Country or birth or allegiance: Germany
When born (or age): [blank]
Date and port of arrival in U.S.: [blank]
Date of naturalization: Sept. 19, 1906
Names and address of witnesses: Philip Bettinger, Ed. Fronk
U.S. Department of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Service. Form No. 1-IP. 14-3202.
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society, Archives (4th floor), Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Index card:
L 560
Family name: Lehner 36
Given name or names: Bartle
Address: Stoughton, Wis.,
Certificate no. (or vol. and page): A6-32
Title and location of court: Mun. Ct., Madison, Dane (Co., Wis.)
Country or birth or allegiance: Germany
When born (or age): [blank]
Date and port of arrival in U.S.: [blank]
Date of naturalization: Sept. 19, 1906
Names and address of witnesses: Philip Bettinger, Ed. Fronk
U.S. Department of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Service. Form No. 1-IP. 14-3202.
[back of card is not filled in] Additional Information in Court Record
Source: Collection Title: Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions for the United States District and Circuit Courts, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840-1950 (M1285)
NARA Series #: M1285; Roll #: 114; Roll Description: L-550 Magdalena through L-625 Peter
Repository: Selected U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1966 (Indexed in World Archives Project) [database on-line]. Ancestry.com
STATE OF WISCONSIN, Iowa County } ss
Before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, appeared Bartle Lehner a native of Germany, aged about 22 years, who being sworn upon his oath, declares that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Power, Prince, State, and Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to the Emperor of Germany of which he is at present a subject.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of November, 1888 }
[signature] Bartl Lehner
[signature] William Sando, Deputy Clerk Circuit Court, Iowa County, Wis.
Source: Naturalization Records, Iowa Series 31, Vol 10, page 106, 1878 thru 1906.
Repository in 1991: The Iowa County, Wisconsin record was found and copied Oct. 8, 1991 at UW-Platteville, Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin.
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