Hüber

   The Hüber surname is (also Hueber and Huber) is a status name based on Middle High German huobe, a measure of land, varying in size at different periods and in different places, but always of considerable extent, appreciably larger than the holding of the average peasant.
   The surname usually denotes a holder or owner of this amount of land, who would have been a prosperous small farmer and probably one of the leading men of his village. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in German-speaking lands. The Coat of Arms features a blue shield with a gold eagle's leg. The Crest is a vol gold and blue.
   The surname was first found in Bavaria, where this family name became a prominent contributor to the development of the province.
   Our lineage to this family can be traced back to FRITZ HÜBER (1718 - 12 Jul 1788), who married ANNA MARIA TRÖNDLE (14 Jul 1735 - 1773) on the second of June in 1755. They lived in Rotzel, Baden (now part of the town of Laufenburg) in the district of Waldshut in southwestern Baden-Württemberg, right at the Swiss border. The earliest reference to Rotzel was in 1266, as "Rotsol," while the larger town of Laufenburg was first noted in 1207. Geographically, Laufenburg is separated from a Swiss city with the same name by an area of major rapids on the river Rhine. In November 1638 one side of the city was taken by Imperialist forces, and the bridge across the river connecting the cities was burned.

Gaßmann

   Fritz and Anna Maria Hüber had ten children, and one of them was a daughter named AGATHA HÜBER (23 Oct 1766 - 01 Dec 1822), who married IGNATIUS GASSMANN (1764 - 1814) on the eighth of June in 1792 in Rotzel. War raged all around them. Until 1803, Waldshut and the surrounding Hotzenwald region in the Southern Black Forest was part of outer Austria, but Napoleon asserted control over Switzerland and ceded the town on one side of the river to the Helvetic Republic of Aargau (now a northerly canton of Switzerland), and made the Rhine the border between nations.
   It was around this time that Ignatius and Agatha had a daughter named IDA GASSMANN on the 11th of February in 1802, in Rotzel. She would have a son named IGNANZ out of wedlock in 1823, who would finally leave this war-torn area and sail to the United States.