THE GUBERA FAMILY came from the town of Solca in what was then
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Romania. They were
German-speaking Roman Catholics of Hungarian descent. The name in
Europe was Czubera but was Anglicized to Gubera in America. From
about 1900 to 1920 various members of the family migrated to the United States,
most settling initially in Kansas City, Missouri. Stefan Czubera, the
earliest ancestor was born about 1835. His granddaughter Franciska
Czubera married Maximilian Niemcow in 1903 in Solca and they had two
daughters. He was the son of Onufri Niemcow and Emilia-Lucia Romanowicz.
Leaving an unsatisfactory marriage, Franciska sailed to America in
1907 with her two daughters. After divorcing Maximilian she married
Hermann Gerdes in 1908.
