How do I start to unravel my highly 'secretive' grandfather?
Here is my thoughts - what am I misssing?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->The mysteries:
<!--[if !supportLists]-->a. <!--[endif]-->Why did he leave West Prussia to emigrate to the United States?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> i. <!--[endif]-->Criminal Issues? Based upon employee commendation letters, he was a good employee in his life in St. Louis, belying a criminal history.
<!--[if !supportLists]--> ii. <!--[endif]-->Political Issues?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->Germany actually appears as a country, for the first time, in 1871.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->German speaking family in a predominate polish area.
<!--[if !supportLists]--> iii. <!--[endif]-->Family issues? He Father passed in 1884 and an older brother would have been prime heir – Where there conflicts here/
<!--[if !supportLists]-->b. <!--[endif]-->How did he make the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> i. <!--[endif]-->German Navy? “Will of the Wisp” hints at this possibility.
<!--[if !supportLists]--> ii. <!--[endif]-->Merchant seaman?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> iii. <!--[endif]-->Passenger ship?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->Not on passenger list?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->a. <!--[endif]-->Fake name?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->b. <!--[endif]-->Stowaway?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->c. <!--[endif]-->Which U.S. Port did he arrive through?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> i. <!--[endif]-->Boston
<!--[if !supportLists]--> ii. <!--[endif]-->New York
<!--[if !supportLists]--> iii. <!--[endif]-->Philadelphia
<!--[if !supportLists]--> iv. <!--[endif]-->Baltimore (Very many German emigrants arrived through Baltimore)
<!--[if !supportLists]--> v. <!--[endif]-->New Orleans
<!--[if !supportLists]--> vi. <!--[endif]-->Other
<!--[if !supportLists]-->d. <!--[endif]-->Where and when did he learn to speak English?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->e. <!--[endif]-->Why did he choose to settle in St. Louis, Missouri?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->f. <!--[endif]-->How did he make the journey from the Port of Entry to St. Louis?
<!--[if !supportLists]-->g. <!--[endif]-->Why did he conceal his Catholic upbringing from his children and raise them Evangelical and Reformed?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> i. <!--[endif]-->He did seek last rites of the Catholic Church before he died.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->h. <!--[endif]-->Why did he assume the name Charles Walter (apparently immediately upon arrival in the U.S.)?
<!--[if !supportLists]--> i. <!--[endif]-->There are also no passenger lists containing this name.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->i. <!--[endif]-->How did he manage, at the age of 19, to get hired by a St. Louis Company as a machinist? Or did machinist come later?
