232:(February 17, 1842—April 7, 1867). They had two children, Mary Dorothea Rice Isenberg (1862–1949) and Daniel Paul Rice Isenberg (1866–1919), known as "Paul Jr." He traveled back to Germany in 1869 where he married Beta Margarete Glade (born 1846) before returning to Hawaii. They had six more children: Johannes "John" Carl Isenberg (born September 12, 1870), Heinrich Alexander Isenberg (born January 17, 1872), Julie Maria Pauline (Isenberg) Barckhausen (born November 1876), Clara Margarete (Isenberg) Wendroth (born 1878), Richard Menno Isenberg (born 1880), and Paula Bertha Johanna Isenberg (born 1883). His daughter Clara married the "coffee king" millionaire Hermann Sielcken. After he died, she married Russian-born German baritone
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Heinrich Friedrich Carl Isenberg was born April 15, 1837, in
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George F. Nellist, ed. (1925). "Isenberg, Daniel Paul Rice".
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