Karl and Katinka had three children -- Barbara, Oscar, and Caroline. On 4 June 1866, the ship Hermann arrived in New York from Bremen. Aboard were Oscar, age 14, Catharine (Katinka) age 45, Caroline, age 17, and Babette (Barbara), age 8. Also aboard was Josef WERNER, age 25, who would apparently become Katinka's third husband. They arrived in America with considerable wealth, which was allegedly lost through WERNER. Karl died at the age of 48, however I do not know when or where that was, nor when he was born.
Oscar was born 5 July 1851 in Schney near Lichtenfelz in Bavaria. After coming to America, they initially settled in Detroit, then moved to Bay City, MI. Oscar sailed on the lakes for about five years, worked in sawmills, plaster mills, a brewery, and finally had a business in Salzburg for four years, moving it to the West Side (of Bay City) for 28 years. Oscar married Elizabeth RAUSCHERT on 30 June 1874. They had four children -- Anna (5 Oct 1878 - 14 May 1933), George (23 Aug 1881 - 7 Jan 1928), Emil (26 Apr 1887 - Apr 1976), and Louis (7 May 1889 - ?) They may have had two additional children, Heinrich ALBRECHT (20 Aug 1876 - ?) and Ferdinand Karl (16 Sep 1880 - ?). Elizabeth was born 27 Apr 1856 in Three Oaks, MI, and died 10 Jun 1926 in Bay City. Oscar died in Bay City 1 May 1933.
Emil married Lulu May DAYTON 16 Sep 1915. She was born 11 Jul 1889, probably in Paw Paw, MI, and died March 1977 in Hudson, OH. Anna married Darcy DAYTON, Lula's brother, and died in childbirth. (That inspired Darcy to become a doctor, and remarry, eventually settling in Tacoma, WA.) Emil studied naval architecture at the University of Michigan, then homesteaded in Montana when his health faltered. Emil and Lula had three children -- John, Charles (my father), and Frances.
I can trace the DAYTON line back to 1305, but until recently I encountered a dead end with the HUTSCHENREUTHER line. Then I found an interesting group of names during a trip to the Family History Center in San Diego a couple of years ago. Carolina Charlotta HORN was christened 13 April 1783 in Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen. She appears as the mother of several children, whose fathers include Wilhelm HUTSCHENREUTHER, Johann Wilhelm HUTCHENREITER, and Johann Heinrich HUTSCHENREUTER. Among the children is a Carl Wilhelm HUTSCHENREUTHER, christened 1 January 1819, Drei Faltigkeit, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen. I suspect this could be the father or grandfather of Karl. Emil's middle name is Wilhelm, and one of his children was named Caroline.
It is interesting that I have found other HUTSCHENREUTHERs, HUTZENREUTHERs, and HUTSCHENREIDER/HUTSCHENREITERs in Prussia. REITER or REUTER means "rider, or horseman" in old German, and apparently HUTSCHEN is a small stool. The name may very well be Prussian, and may have something to do with cavalry. What is weird is that this validates our pronunciation of "hut-chin-writer," although the true German would be "hoot-chen-roy-ter."
Hutschenreut(h)er is like Tischenreuther and Kotschenreuther, wherein "reuth = rüt, which means a clearing. This explains many of the place names near Selb. Another story I have heard is that the name means "little house in a clearing." Furthermore, reuten means to root out or to clear for cultivation.
I suspect that pure coincidence is at play here. I believe the name originated in Prussia, where "reuter" meant "rider." At some point, the family, or part of the family, moved south to become china manufacturers. It may be that it just happened that in that part of the German empire, "reuter" meant "clearing" and the name evolved from Hutschenreuter to Hutschenreuther.