![]() On a chilly afternoon in the middle of December, a nervous young merchant from Bremen, Germany approached the house on the corner of Oro and Olas Altas, Mazatlán, Sinaloa. His name was Johann Emil Philippi and he was about to enter marriage with his sweetheart, Emilia Fernandez Galán. Emil was born in Bremen, Germany in 1861, son of Heinrich Wilhelm Philippi and Anna Catharine Cattus. As a young merchant he had arrived to Mexico in December 1881, accompanied by his friend Enrique Schmidt Ybañez , to work for Carl Melchers and William Henry Sowerbutts in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. ![]() His young bride María Emilia Carlota Fernandez Galán, known as Emilia, was the fourth daughter, of seventeen children, born to Carlos Fernandez Galán, a lawyer from Cadiz, Spain and his wife Laura Hanssen Rodriguez from Germany, and was born on November 22, 1865 in La Paz, Lower California. The marriage took place at the Fernandez Galán home, and the witnesses for the marriage were Emil’s partners; Carl Melchers, William Henry Sowerbutts and Charles A. Volquardsen. Emil and Emelia had five children, all born in Mazatlán: Yrene: 1888–1889, Wilhelm Emil: 1890, Carlos 1893–, Georg:1904–, and Enrique Philippi: 1905–. On May 26, 1894, Emilio was a witness at the marriage of his friend, Enrique Schmidt to María Carlota Fernandez Galán, sister of Emilia. The other witnesses were J.G. Claussen, Wm Hy Sowerbutts, and Carlos Schmidt, (brother to Enrique). ![]() 21 Nov 1898. Right to Left: Don Enrique Schmidt Ybañez, Carlitos Bölken, Emil Philippi, Carl Ströhlein, Paul Hintze, Georg Claussen, Julius Glowatz, Emilia Fernandez Galán de Philippi, Maria Fernandez Galán de Schmidt, Carlos Volquardsen, Flora Sophie Sowerbutts de Volquardsen. Photo: Archives Stefan Hink. In 1898 the partners of Melchers, Mazatlán, are Bertram Johann, Carl, and Heinrich Alexander Melchers, and Henry William Sowerbutts, all residing in Europe while the managers are Emil Philippi and Johann G. Claussen. Emil is also Consul for Germany at this time, having received the title when Sowerbutts returned to Germany. Emil would hold the title of Consul until he handed it over to Don Federico Unger in 1910.
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