I live very near there. I'll ask and look about in the historical society archives. The addresses given on water street are probably gone, but maybe not. Blumfield twshp is not really near downtown Bay City.
If anyone knew his religion, it would help. The German immigrants around here were/are pretty parochial. Each little settlement had a church and surrounding family homes.
Bay City was populated by 4 ethnic waves, German, Polish, Irish, and Italian. Each settled a different area in the city. , During WWl, German children were told to pass themselves off as Poles because of harassment (according to my Grandmother).
