Big catch

Charles Francis Freudenberg (1910-1979) in August 1926. The photograph is labeled "Big Catch". Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963)

Emmett Peter Van Deusen I (1878-1965) obituary

Emmett Peter Van Deusen I (1878-1965) obituary

Emmett Peter Van Deusen, 87 of 302 51st Street West Bradenton, died Saturday at Manatee Memorial Hospital. Van Deusen was born in Jefferson, New York, and came to Bradenton 13 years ago from Detroit, Michigan. He was a retired boat dealer and a member of the Horseshoe Masonic Lodge of Middletown, New York. He is survived by four sons. Lloyd B. Van Deusen of Chicago Illinois; Emmett P. Van Deusen, Jr. of Atlanta Georgia; Robert R. Fulton of Jackson Michigan and Stuart F. Fulton of Ferndale, Michigan; a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Johnson of Mercer Island, Washington; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at Shannons Bradenton chapel with the Reverend Troy Brady, pastor of the Ecumenical United Brethren Church officiating. Cremation will follow.

Source:

Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Sarasota, Florida; November 7, 1965

Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939); and Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) on the Isle of Pines, Cuba circa 1912

Standing on steps between columns are from left to right are: Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939); and Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975). This photograph may show the post office in Santa Barbara on the Isle of Pines in Cuba around 1911-1914. Image from the collection of Marie Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987).

Interview with Maria Winblad (1891-1987) in August of 1986 by Susan Penny Van Deusen at the Lutheran Home in Jersey City, New Jersey

Interview with Maria Winblad (1891-1987) in August of 1986 by Susan Penny Van Deusen at the Lutheran Home in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Penny: We thought of some questions to ask you.
Penny: Like what year were you born in?
Maria: 1895. ...

Penny: We brought a tape recorder.
Maria: Have a nice day in and a nice year in your home there ... where you can run around in the grass with your friends

Penny: Christy wanted to know what your parents were like.
Maria: I will show you [she gets her bible] .
April: Hi, I am April

Penny: What was your mother’s name and your father’s name?
Maria: Salmine ... Selma gets her name from her. ... Salmina and my father's name was John, that is another John, John Edward. That was my father’s name.

Penny: How many children did they have?
Maria: I think my mother had seven, she raised three. We went up the street and a little girl had whooping cough and she had everyone in the yard ... we went up there and they had things to drink there. Eddie and I came down with whooping cough. The little girl there was no hope for. My brother the little fellow ... pneumonia and died. I was 4 and I think he was 2, 2 years old. They never should have let all thise children there, they had lemonade. There was no hope for the little girl. ... Eddie went into pneumonia and he died ... Like my mother said ... piece of bread ... Not Eddie ... He was such a good little fellow. Daddy has the papers that is where I will be buried.

Penny: Is that in New Jersey?
Maria: New York Bay cemetery ... Daddy had paid so that I have that grave there.

Penny: Were all of you born in the United States?
Maria: Yes. My grandparents were both Christian. My mother was only 2 years old when her mother died ... How old is your little one?
Penny: 14 months
Maria:... baker ... he never remarried and raised these seven children, and my mother was only 2 years old when her mother died, and he never remarried. He was a very religious man. He lived it.

Penny: What did he do for a living?
Maria: He was a baker

Maria: He was the dean of a college there [Note: He was the only school teacher, not a dean of a college. His daughter Frideborg would become the principle of the high school and the stories have become conflated and exaggerated]

Penny: What was your last name before you were married?
Maria: Winblad

Christy: Where were you born?
Maria: New York City ... I was 9 months old when my father had the house built.
Apple street and a dirt road across the street and a big pasture there. They had a carriage, a two seater, it had the fringe around it [laughs], ... I would like to have a ride in one of them. He had a big pasture across the street ... one block to the other ...

Penny:Who was the youngest child and who was the oldest?
Maria: Otto was the youngest ... Tony was the oldest. Otto was 75, Tony was 88 when he died.

Penny: Why did they come here?
Maria: He was on a ship when he met my mother ... They had a cleaning lady and a lady that did the cooking.
Penny: I would like to have two ladies [to help at home].
Maria: He was gone for 5 years, he ran away from college. Selma said I can't sleep ... try it for one month and I will talk to your teacher. Try it for a month. Selma. When she got the report ... I am not going to make the mistake that my father did. ... She was happy. ... He was gone 5 years and he was in Norway and must have liked her. He said he wanted her to go up to Sweden to meet his father and mother before they were married. I don't think his father was alive. [NOte: his father was alive and died in 1901]... I think the father had died. He was gone for 5 years . He had four sisters and two of them were nurses, and his father wanted him to be a pastor. If my grandfather had not been so strict, he may have been a pastor. With Selma ... and she did and she got a good report.

Penny: So they came to the United States right after they were married?
Maria: ... Brides ... She washed the chicken off and put it in the oven. You can never take that back. Your supposed to take that out.

Penny: They didn’t know anyone here?
Maria:

Penny: How old were you when you started school?
Maria: Number 11 school ... firehouse

Penny: Do you remember any friends from school?
Maria: I remember the day I graduated

Penny: Did you go all the way to 12th grade?
Maria: [inaudible, volume lowers as microphone becomes too far from the speaker] ... My father paid $10 a month

Penny: You had to finish the course?
Maria: That bothered me

Penny: What did you do after you finished your business course?
Maria: ... Cuba ...

Penny: What did he try to do?
Maria: ... He would tell them where to put the They were in the ship in the bottom ...

Penny: Why couldn’t he stay in Cuba?
Maria: He was a man of the sea, he couldn’t make a penny there. ... It had four rooms ... four bedrooms.

Penny: How old were you?
Maria: I was 15 ... Otto and I were there a year and a half. Tony married Eva ... She lived across from us, one day a storm came up and the house blew down the road
Maria: My mother got sick down there ... her heart ... I did the washing, the ironing ... the Bronx

Penny: Why did they go to Norway?
Maria:

Penny: How long were they gone over there?
Maria: They died over there.

Penny: They took Otto?
Maria: ... My aunt’s house. ...

Penny: How old were they?
[recording ends]

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at Ridge Ranch School in Paramus, New Jersey circa 1964

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at Ridge Ranch School in Paramus, New Jersey circa 1964.

In Hospital. Anthony Winblad of Desert Hot Springs was taken seriously ill April 26 and was rushed to the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana on the

In Hospital. Anthony Winblad of Desert Hot Springs was taken seriously ill April 26 and was rushed to the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana on the advice of Dr. Charles Starr. Mr. and Mrs. Vryl Lamberston of West 2nd Street were visiting at the Winblad home on Desert View Drive at the time of Mr. Winblad's collapse and offered to drive the ailing man and his wife to Fontana. He was received at the hospital within three hours of the onset of his illness, and was operated on the following morning. A second operation was performed May 11. No further report has been given on the patient;s condition. Mrs. Winblad is remaining in Fontana.

Person: Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975)

Source: Desert Hot Springs Sentinel; Desert Hot Springs, California; May 14, 1959

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) in the Brooklyn Eagle on November 4, 1899 for deer hunting

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) in the Brooklyn Eagle on November 4, 1899 for deer hunting.

Second Day's Deer Hunting. ...The Farmingdale Club, consisting of Jarvis Lattin, Edward Barto, Lewis Bedell and Henry Lorine, killed three early in the forenoon, south of the brook along the Long Island Railroad, east of the Central Islip station.

Source: Brooklyn Eagle; Brooklyn, New York; Saturday, November 04, 1899

Susannah Lattin (1848–1868) in the Brooklyn Eagle on September 9, 1868

Susannah Lattin (1848–1868) in the Brooklyn Eagle on September 9, 1868.

"The Long Island Mystery. Dr. Harrison and Grindle on the stand. Conclusion of the inquest. The verdict. The official inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Susannah Lattin, at the alleged privet lying-in hospital, No. 6 Amity street, was concluded yeaterdayby Coroner Rollins. ... All the children were alive so far as she knew ..."

Source: Brooklyn Eagle; September 9, 1868.

Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) 75th birthday

Celebrates 75 Years Anton J. Winblad, 66-442 Desert View, Desert Hot Springs, celebrated his 75th birthday this week. Visiting here for the big party is his brother, Otto Winblad from New Jersey; Mae Freudenberg, his sister; Perry Olsen, his cousin; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Winblad his son and daughter-in-law, as well as Roy Winblad, his other son. Both Anton and Otto Winblad made a visit to the Sentinel because of the interest in the newspaper. Otto has worked for a number of newspapers in the East, including the Hudson Dispatch, Jersey Journal, New York Times, New York News, New York Mirror, New York World, and the Brooklyn Eagle.

People: Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975), Perry Maranius Olsen (1886-1972), Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977), Earl Vincent Winblad (1916-2004), Maria Elizabeth Winblad II (1895-1987) aka Mae Freudenberg, and Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970) aka Roy Winblad.

Source: Desert Hot Springs Sentinel; Desert Hot Springs, California; April 21, 1961

Marriage of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) to Gretchen Frances Hahnen (1902-1986) in the New York Times on June 24, 1934

Marriage of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) to Gretchen Frances Hahnen (1902-1986) in the New York Times on June 24, 1934.

Marriage announced of Gretchen Hahnen. Jersey City Girl Wed to Eddie A. Schneider, Aviator, Here on June 2.

Jersey City, New Jersey, June 23, 1934. The marriage on June 2, 1934 of Gretchen Hahnen of Jersey City, New Jersey governor of the Women's International Aeronautic Association, and Eddie A. Schneider of Jersey City, who in 1928, at age of 16 was the youngest air pilot to hold a commercial license, was announced today. The couple was married at the New York Municipal Building. Miss Hahnen, daughter of Mrs. Zora M. Hahnen of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mr. Schneider met when Miss Hahnen was organizing the Jersey City Junior Aeronautical Association, of which Mr. Schneider was sponsor. In 1930 Mr. Schneider broke the transcontinental junior speed record by lowering the mark of the late Frank Goldsborough. Mr. Schneider won the Great Lakes Trophy in the Ford national reliability tour in 1930 and in the 1931 tour he won first place for single-motored planes. He was director of the aviation division of the Hoover Business League in 1932. After July 1 the couple will live in Jersey City. Mr. Schneider is the son of Emil A. Schneider of North Arlington.

Source:

New York Times; June 24, 1934; page N3

Person:

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) was a record holding aviator who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and died in a plane crash (b. October 20, 1911, 2nd Avenue and 17th Street, Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York, USA - d. December 23, 1940, Deep Creek and Flatbush Avenue, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York City, New York, USA)

Person:

Gretchen Francis Hahnen (1902-1986) Housewife (b. March 11, 1902, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA - d. December 1986, Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, 27530, USA) Social Security Number 123019936.

Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) obituary in the Desert Hot Springs Sentinel of Desert Hot Springs, California on April 3, 1975

Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) obituary in the Desert Hot Springs Sentinel of Desert Hot Springs, California on April 3, 1975.

Anthony Julius Winblad. Longtime Desert Hot Springs resident Anthony Julius Winblad, 88 of 66442 Desert View Avenue, Desert Hot Springs died Thursday, March 27, at Kaiser Memorial Hospital following a long illness. Mr. Winblad had resided in Desert Hot Springs 15 of his 25 years in California. The New York native was a retired plumber for the U.S. Naval Shipyard at Terminal Island. Funeral services were held Monday morning, March 31, from the Desert Mortuary Chapel with George Hilla, senior warden, and Edward Gray, chaplain, Plam Springs Masonic Lodge, officiating. Internment was in Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, with Desert Mortuary in charge. Mr. Winblad is survived by three sons, Norman Winblad of Baldwin Park, Earl Winblad of Carson and Russell Staderman of Buffalo, New York.

Source: Desert Hot Springs Sentinel; Desert Hot Springs, California; April 3, 1975

Bass Player Marking 11th Year at Rickey's

Bass Player Marking 11th Year at Rickey's

Bass player Carl F. Tandberg is an 11-year man at Dick White's Rickey's Restaurant in Alhambra and a 42-year man in the music business. Carl began his career in 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts. He played in many local ballrooms, restaurants and in radio stations WNAC and WEEI. In 1929, he moved to New York City. During a 16-year stay in the large metropolis, Tandberg played with the Jimmy Durante band, played vaudeville and toured the southern circuit with Al Wohlman & Company. He then played most of the 52nd street "jazz joints" including a run at the "Hickory House" with Riley and Farley the writers of "The Music Goes Round And Round". Next came a series of college dates with Bunny Berigan. In 1939 he did a vuadeville tour and cut a few records with the Andrew Sisters before recording "Miserlou" with Jan August in 1945 [sic]. In 1947 he met Frankie Ortega and aided in farming the famous "frankie Ortega Trio." He stayed with the trio for 11 years playing at the Balboa Club in Palm Springs and Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe. Carl was thinking about retiring when he met Dick White, owner of Rickey's in Alhambra and decisded to accept his offer of playing on weekends. Meanwhile Carl also joined the staff of the American Music Publishers. During this time he again became active in the recording business working with such starts as Lou Rawls, Frank Gorshin, and television's newest star, Glen Campbell. Carl is presently playing in Rickey's Sky Room with Noel Hylton and Sue Stevens. The restaurant is located at 323 West Valley Boulevard in Alhambra.

Note: Miserlou was recorded in 1947 with Jan August, not in 1945 as reported in the article.

Source:
Pasadena Star-News; April 25, 1969.

Person:
Carl Frederick Tandberg (1910-1988) Bass Musician (b. March 22, 1910, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA - d. August 26, 1988, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA) Social Security Number 105168545.

Sopie Marie Olsdatter (1852-aft1910) of Farsund, Norway to Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) of Jersey City, New Jersey

Sopie Marie Olsdatter (1852-aft1910) of Farsund, Norway to Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) of Jersey City, New Jersey, USA:

"A little post to you from your sister, stay well. Our most beloved dear Salmine and family, now when Sofie shall travel on Saturday, she will be kind and go to you and bring regards from your dear father and sister, I have no address, as I get the letters in return, got a letter from Lina 8 days ago, she is good and sound and has visited you, sister, and she said you were in good mood and happy, yes God helps you and your people, so that you still may come to see your old father he is pretty well and was glad he heard that Lina think about a trip home, together with you if everything goes well, with the help of God, we live well, have no suffer. Marie Klungeland is a candidate for confirmation October 6th. You John get regards from Malla Bekkevig Liva mm (with more). Dear be careful so that you once again can see old Norway, Lina wrote that she had a good time by Inga it was so nice, we have had a cold summer so we have had fire in the stove all the time, you shall get letters when I get ..., love from father sister."

George Poe, Jr. (1846–1914) in the New York Times on May 29, 1908

George Poe, Jr. (1846–1914) in the New York Times on May 29, 1908

"Smother Small Dog To See it Revived. Successful Demonstration of an Artificial Respiration Machine Cheered in Brooklyn. Women in the Audience, But Most of Those Present Were Physicians. The Dog, Gathered in from the Street, Wagged Its Tail." New York Times. May 29, 1908, Friday. "An audience, composed of about thirty men and three or four women, most of the men being physicians, attended a demonstration of Prof. George Poe's machine for producing artificial respiration in the library of the Kings County Medical Society, at 1,313 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, last night, under the auspices of the First Legion of the Red Cross Society. ..."

George Poe, Jr. (1846–1914) in the Trenton Times on August 17, 1883

George Poe, Jr. (1846–1914) in the Trenton Times on August 17, 1883

Poe's Chemical Works. Outgrowth of Many Experiments. ...

Source: Trenton Times. August 17, 1883

Children of Jens Jacob Hansen (c1820-1864) and Anna Marie Kjarvaldsen (1822-1888) circa 1880

Children of Jens Jacob Hansen (c1820-1864) and Anna Marie Kjarvaldsen (1822-1888). Standing from left to right are: Andrew Havig Jensen (1861-1930) who married Lena Elaine Olsen (1860-1938) aka Hannah Eline Olsdatter; Hans Gabriel Jensen (1846-?); Jens Julius Jensen (1859-c1903) who married Annie Olsen (1859-?); and Henry Jensen who has a beard. Sitting from left to right are: Katrina Jensen; Anna Marie Kjarvaldsen (1822-1888) who was married to Jens Jacob Hansen (c1820-1864); John Jensen; Marie Jensen who married an Olsen and was the mother of Osborne (Ozzie) Theomun Olsen (1883-1971); and Tillie Jensen. Photograph circa 1880. Image from the collection of Arthur Bruce Jensen II (1939- ) from an original photograph in the collection of Sigrid B. Jensen (1895-?) of Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Kathryn E. Kennedy (1897-1974), Katherine Hill (1918-1991) and Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) in New York circa 1922-1923

Kathryn E. Kennedy (1897-1974), Katherine Hill (1918-1991) and Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) in New York circa 1922-1923.

From left to right are: Kathryn E. Kennedy (1897-1974) who married Joseph O'Malley (1893-1985); Katherine Hill (1918-1991) who married Herman Van der Linde (1917-1975); and Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) aka Mae Kennedy who married Walter M. Hill (1893-1965).

The photograph was taken around 1922-1923 when Katherine Hill was about 4 or 5 years old.

Image from the Ann Elizabeth O'Malley (1933- ) collection.

Richard Charles Freudenberg (1932-2006) and Ralph Herman Freudenberg I (1931-1992) on September 17, 1940 at the Perisphere

Richard Charles Freudenberg (1932-2006) and Ralph Herman Freudenberg I (1931-1992) on September 17, 1940 at the 1939-1940 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York at the Perisphere. Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963).

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) in 1960 in Paramus, New Jersey

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) in 1960 in Paramus, New Jersey. I am wearing my dad's hat and have my stuffed dog cocoa.

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) from his high school graduation photo for Paramus High School in 1976

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) from his high school graduation photo for Paramus High School in 1976. I weighed 120 pounds and was 5' 10 inches.

3 U.S. airmen here to explain aid to loyalists. Acosta, Berry, Schneider fly to capital with their attorney.

3 U.S. airmen here to explain aid to loyalists. Acosta, Berry, Schneider fly to capital with their attorney.

Back from the broken harvests of the bloody Spanish war, the famed triumvir of American air fighters – Bert Acosta, Gordon Berry and Eddie Schneider – flew into Washington Airport yesterday all set to do some tall explaining to the Federal Government. Apparently none the worse for the wear and tear of the bitter civil conflict, now in its sixth month, the trio who quit because "it would be suicide to continue" and because their actions "might not be in tune with the spirit of neutrality", talked freely with newsmen about the reasons that motivated their enlistment. "I was broke, hungry, jobless," 25-year-old Schneider, who is married and has a family in New York, said. "Yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry were left out in the cold in the Administration’s program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?" While other airmen – British and French – were afforded a two-week courtesy for training, American fliers were just shown to loyalist hangars, given a plane and and ordered to do their stuff. "We were flying old crates," Acosta said, “while other nationalists were given modern ships. But for the protection afforded us by Soviet pursuit planes we would not be alive now to tell you this tale." All three had the highest praise for the Russian flyers and nothing but scorn for the Moors. "They are the traditional enemies of the Spaniard," Berry said. "Spain is not fighting a civil war but an invasion.” Denying news reports that they dropped bombs over Burgos as a Christmas Day greeting for the fascist rebel junta, the fliers said that they spent the holidays in Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous state of Barcelona. Once they stared death in the face. That was in the Catalan capitol when all unwittingly they tuned in on Rome in a restaurant radio and had a band blare forth with the Fascist anthem. "It was a close call." The youthful Schneider said, "we almost got shot as agents provocateur." Unpaid, and hearing of repercussions back home from the British Ambassador in Bilboa, the trio made up their minds to quit the conflict for good. "This was a mess," Schneider explained, "and there was always that never-ending jockeying for the power among the factions to contend with, it got to the point where we did not know who we were fighting and why, and you can say that we are damn glad to be back." The three fliers were accompanied here by their attorney, Colonel Lewis Landes, of New York, an officer in the Reserve Corps. They came here voluntarily to see various Government officials, but the State Department not on their calling list. In the afternoon they had lunch at the Army and Navy Club and discussed modern fighting methods with Colonel Richards. The latter was interested in the war value of pursuit ships and questioned the trio on the observations. Tomorrow all three have an appointment with Senator Ashurst on neutrality legislation. They also will be questioned by the Justice and Commerce departments, but they did not disclose the nature of the conferences. Regarding the pay owed them by the Spanish Government, Landes disclosed that all three received "about $500 apiece" Monday from "the Spanish counsel" in New York. He did not disclose the latter’s identity. Meanwhile, representative McCormack (Democrat), of Massachusetts, was requesting of Secretary of State Cordell Hull a State Department inquiry into whether a Spanish consul in New York had paid American aviators to serve in the Spanish civil war. In a letter he demanded a withdrawal of the counsel’s credentials if there had been any violation of the United States or international law. McCormack told newsmen that a special House investigating committee, of which he is chairman, had revealed that "certain foreign governments" had no compunction about using their diplomatic representatives to this country to further their plans and "violate international laws."

Source:

The Washington Post, January 20, 1937

Person:

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) was a record holding aviator who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and died in a plane crash (b. October 20, 1911, 2nd Avenue and 17th Street, Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York, USA - d. December 23, 1940, Deep Creek and Flatbush Avenue, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York City, New York, USA)

Person:

Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954)

Local Pilot Killed. Eddie Schneider And Passenger Die In Crash.

Local Pilot Killed. Eddie Schneider And Passenger Die In Crash.

Eddie A. Schneider, 29, veteran pilot and former holder of the junior transcontinental speed record for airplanes, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when a small monoplane in which he was giving a refresher course to another pilot was struck by U.S. Naval Reserve plane at Floyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn. Schneider’s plane, one wing sheared off, plummeted in a tight spin into an inlet of Jamaica Bay, causing instant death to Schneider and his student, George W. Herzog, 37. Schneider, a native of New York City was a resident of Jersey City until a few years ago. He became interested in aviation while still a student at Dickenson High School, Jersey City, causing him to leave school when 15 to go to work as a plane mechanic at old Roosevelt Field Hempstead, Long Island. Schneider during his career in aviation broke the East-West, West-East and round trip junior transcontinental records in 1930 in his famous red Cessna monoplane, when only 18. He crossed the continent from Westfield Airport, New Jersey, to Los Angeles in 29 hours and 41 minutes, breaking the record of the late Frank Goldsborough. Eddie was at one time the youngest licensed commercial pilot and competed in air races and meets with men far more experienced and older than he was, after carrying off first honors. In the Ford National Reliability Tours of 1930 and 1931. Schneider with his red Cessna, carried off the Great Lakes Trophy one year, and then took first place the next year. In one of the air tours a defect in a propeller caused the engine of his plane to break loose while flying over a mountainous section of Kentucky, and Schneider made a forced landing in a corn patch on a side of the mountain. A new engine was rushed to him and after an extremely difficult takeoff, which experienced airmen, said was not possible, he went on to win first place in the tour. Schneider in 1934 became the manager of the old Jersey City Airport at Droyers Point, operating the filed for a period of a little more than a year. While at the airport he taught many Hudson County students how to fly. Schneider had a narrow escape in 1935 when a Travelair biplane in which he and a student were taking off from the airport landed in Newark Bay after the motor suddenly went dead at 100 feet of attitude. The plane was only slightly damaged in the forced water landing. Schneider and the student Al Clemmings, wading to shore. In 1936 Eddie with Bert Acosta and three other pilots, enlisted in the Yankee Escadrille of the Loyalist Air Corps in Spain. For several months Schneider was flying antiquated planes, which had been rigged up with racks, dropping bombs on military objectives of the Franco forces. Schneider finally became thoroughly disgusted with the Communist regime, which he said was directing the Loyalist forces, and after many difficulties, returned to this country. Since returning from Spain, Schneider, a licensed airplane mechanic since he was 15, worked for American Airlines, first at Newark Airport and then at La Guardia Airport, New York City, first as a mechanic, then as instrument inspector. About six months ago he resigned his post with American Airlines to take a position as student instructor with the Archie Baxter Flying Service teaching Civil Aeronautics Authority students to fly. Yesterday afternoon Schneider took Herzog, a resident of New Hyde Park, Long Island, up for a refresher course. Herzog, holder of a commercial license, had allowed the license to lapse, and was required to take dual flying time before his license would be renewed. Schneider was flying at about 600 feet altitude, coming in for a landing, when a United States Naval Reserve biplane piloted by Ensign Kenneth A, Kuehler, 25, of Rochester, Ohio, was observer, struck the tail assembly of Schneider’s tandem Piper Cub. The tails surfaces and left wing of Schneider’s plane were badly damaged and as the two planes separated after the mid-air collision, the small monoplane went in a tight spin, striking Deep Creek several hundred feet from Flatbush Avenue and sinking. The Naval Reserve plane was able to land at the airport. Airport emergency crews raced to the spot where Schneider’s plane had submerged and the bodies of Schneider and Herzog were taken from the plane within a very few minutes after the crash. Attempts were made to to revive the two, but a Kings County Hospital ambulance intern pronounced both dead on arrival at the scene. It is believed that both were killed by the impact of the plane with the water. The bodies were taken to Kings County Hospital and Schneider will be released today and brought to Jersey City for funeral services. Herzog is survived by a widow and two small children. Schneider lived in Jersey City at 114 Carlton Avenue in the Hudson City section when he established the transcontinental records.

Note:
The New York Times on May 16, 1935 identifies the student as "Fred Weigel, 31, of 77 Lembeck Avenue, Jersey City"

Source:
Jersey Journal; Jersey City, New Jersey; December 24, 1940

Person:
Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) was a record holding aviator who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and died in a plane crash (b. October 20, 1911, 2nd Avenue and 17th Street, Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York, USA - d. December 23, 1940, Deep Creek and Flatbush Avenue, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York City, New York, USA)

Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) postmortem dental examination from June 7, 1921

Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) postmortem dental examination from June 7, 1921

William Nagy (c1895-?) letter to Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) on December 4, 1915

185 East 7th Street

New York City

December 4, 1915

Dear Louis. I received your letter this morning and thank you for writing me and letting me know how you and the fellows are getting along. You say Street and Smith is busy now. I'll bet the boss is glad. Does he still go around picking at every fellow? I bet you're glad you are not in his way. By your letter I note you got is soft. You might as well take it easy while you have the chance. I landed a job in the office of a restaurant down on lower Broadway, acting as a stenographer, assisting the bookkeeper and being cashier for part of the day. It was temporary and lasted about 6 weeks. I received $10 wages and lunch. Now I am out for another job and expect to land it soon. I am sorry to hear Seger is sick. when you see him again again tell him I was asking about him. I bet Faller is working hard. "not." How is Goldstein? The guy who always says hi is going to leave next week. Who has charge of 16th Street now? Does Hudson or Low mention anything about me? This all I have to say, so I will bid you farewell until I either see you or hear from you again. I hope that will be in the near future. With best wishes, your friend William Nagy. P.S. Tell the fellows I was asking for them. Tell Hudson I said if he wants to get fat he should eat a good square meal for lunch, and he should leave the windows open so he and the fellows can get plenty of fresh air.