Erich Holtz married Emma Mueller at Dundee, Kane County, Illinois, on April 14, 1904, per the Illinois State Board of Health's official marriage return and the underlying marriage license (Kane County License No. 15649).
Marriage License No. 15649 (issued April 4, 1904, married April 14, married license filed April 25) and the Illinois State Board of Health marriage return. Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com.
What the record shows
Groom: Erich Holtz, age 24, laborer, residence Dundee, Ill., born Dundee, Ill. Father: Joachim C. Holtz. Mother: Johanna Lange.
Bride: Emma Mueller, age 20, residence Dundee, Ill., born Dundee, Ill. Father: J.C. Friedrich Mueller. Mother: Christine Schroeder.
Married at Dundee, Kane County, Illinois, April 14, 1904.
Witnesses: Carl Mueller, William Holt[z].
Officiant: J.H.C. Streger, Ev. Luth. Minister — very likely officiating at Immanuel Lutheran Church, the German Lutheran congregation documented elsewhere in this wiki as founded by German immigrants on the East Dundee side.
County Clerk: Wm. F. Lynch.
Both bride and groom were born in Dundee, suggesting both the Holtz and Mueller (also spelled Muller) families were already established locally by the 1880s — consistent with the wave of German Lutheran settlement East Dundee saw in the 1850s per the Encyclopedia of Chicago.
Sources
resident-photo-submission-2026-08-18 — Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com. Uploaded to Supabase Storage 2026-08-18.
