Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) of New Jersey

Marriage of Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866) and Sophia Weber (1815-1891) on May 27, 1851

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Marriage of Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866) and Sophia Weber (1815-1891) on May 27, 1851 in Essex County, New Jersey. The oral family history had them married in Alsace and then emigrating to the United States.

Geni.com and hubris.

2011-11-03T19:50:00.003-04:00

Genealogists should avoid Geni.com.

The genealogical website, Geni.com is displaying hubris. They are following the Netflix model of taking their service and drastically changing the terms of service. What was a free account for storing your family tree is now a pay service. For free you can only add 100 people. I have several thousand people in my tree so I cannot add people any more. Geni used to be my primary place for storing family information, but I am switching to the free tree storage at Ancestry.com. I will be migrating photos to Ancestry over the next few months. Why would anyone pay $7.95 a month for the rest of your life ... and eternity if you want your children and grandchildren to be able to add to the tree after your own death. Ancestry offers the same service for free, and with a paid account to Ancestry you get actual transcribed primary documents. All Geni offers you is access to your own tree, and access to anyone else that has a match in their tree. You do not need a paid account to access your tree in Ancestry, just a paid account to access matches in other trees. In Ancestry you just have to do it once, get a 1 month account or a one year account. Geni wants $95.4 a year just to access your own data.

Better use of $100 would be to buy a terabyte hard drive and use Ancestry.com to store your tree for free.

Remembrances of Thomas Patrick Norton II as he awaits death in a hospice at age 91

2011-11-03T13:21:00.002-04:00

Remembrances of Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920-2011) as he awaits death in a hospice at age 91.

I had two scares over the past two year where I thought my dad had passed away. When someone is approaching 90 it is always on your mind that he is mortal. He was still living alone at his condo in Lake Hiawatha. I had arranged for a home health care aid to come three days a week to help wash him and she would stay for several hours. I would come on the days she was not there just to keep him company and clean up and make sure he was eating his food and drinking enough liquids. Before I had made myself keys, I would ring the doorbell and he would open the door. This time no answer, I rang and rang and rang. I thought my dad had passed away. I called the condo association to see if they had a key and they told me to call a locksmith. A woman came into the building and she let me in the outer door and I knocked again on the inner door and tried to force the lock open with a coat hanger. My dad then opened the door and asked "what is the commotion about." I explained that I had been ringing the doorbell for 30 minutes and then I hit the buzzer again. But now being inside I could hear the buzzer going off upstairs. He said "next time use my button, it is the middle one."

The second scare was when I had my own keys and I let myself in. There was my dad on the floor on his back seemingly lifeless. I ran over and gasped out "dad", and he opened his eyes and said "Richard. I have been waiting for you, help me up."I asked what happened and he explained "My glasses fell on the floor and when I got on my knees to pick them up, I didn't have the strength to lift myself back up again, so I slept on the floor until you came. I tried crawling over to the couch but I don't have the upper body strength I had just a few months ago." I thought of having him move in with me, but the bedrooms are upstairs, and the last time he was over for dinner he could not make it up the stairs without a struggle. I then went on a search for an assisted living facility.

September 11, 2001 remembrances on 10th anniversary

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September 11, 2001 remembrances on 10th anniversary.

For September 11, 2001 I was in Baltimore, Maryland at the Society for Bimolecular Screening (SBS) trade show at the Baltimore Convention Center. I was working for ASDI at the time. I heard from the woman in the booth next to mine that her mother had called her to tell her that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. It was just after 9:00 am and the doors to the show had just opened. We both opened our laptops and connected to the Internet. Around 10:00 am they put on the big flat-screen television designed for broadcasting the talks at the show and the first image we saw was the first tower collapsing. People were quiet but there was occasional sobbing. Everyone who had one, was on their cell phones and rumors and panicking started. A man said that he just got a call from a friend in Washington and he was told that the convention center was a target. That caused people to panic and start to leave the building a little too quickly. People were outside and not sure of what to do, and then there was a roar from Air Force jets as they they engaged their afterburners. This caused people to panic even more. Baltimore is near Andrews Air Force Base and jets were being dispatched to protect the area airspace, but people were assuming the sounds they were hearing were passenger planes headed toward the convention center. A woman screamed something but I couldn’t hear what it was, but it caused people started to run down the street. One woman in a gray skirt-suit fell to the ground as people tried to rush past her. I walked back to one of the hotels with friends and we watched the events unfold on CNN. When we went to dinner later, walking down the streets was eerie. There were very few cars on the streets and several armored vehicles were now parked in front of some of the federal offices and the federal courthouse. There were also US Army vehicles in convoys moving down the streets or parked on street corners. Several buildings had a cluster of armed soldiers in front with M16s.

I drove a group of people back to New Jersey, Sophia Liang from Aurora Biomed in Vancouver and her father. They had a booth at the trade show and their next appointment was with Bristol Meyers Squibb in Princeton.

A few days later II went to Ground Zero with a woman I knew from the Internet, Judy Lanza, and I took photos and collected some ash that I now keep in an amber jar. I showed my Civil Defense badge and they let us into the inner area. They were having people collect any papers that survived the collapse of the towers or were from the airplanes. They had bins set up to drop off any papers that anyone found.

Nora B. Skinner (1903-1963) and Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) tombstone

2011-09-11T12:53:00.000-04:00

Geni.com changes their model to push more people into the pay version

2011-08-16T11:47:00.004-04:00

Geni.com changes their model to push more people into the pay version

The genealogical website Geni.com has changed their software and added new features to the pay Pro version of their website. The problem is that now users can no longer search for people in their tree. When you do you reach their paywall. This occurs even when the person is in your own tree that you created.

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) Freudenberg

2011-07-20T18:57:00.001-04:00

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) aka Mae Winblad, was a housewife, and a cleaning and laundry woman. (b. February 16, 1895; 294 West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York, USA - d. March 07, 1987; Christ Hospital, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA) Social Security Number 147188206.

Parents:

Her parents were John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) aka Johan Edward Winblad, of Sweden; and Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) aka Salmina Olsdatter, of Norway. John was the son of Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901); and Elsa Maria Elisabeth Näslund (1829-1907) of Ytterlännäs, Sweden. Salmine was the daughter of Ole Mattias Pedersen (1822-1914) and Thea Johanne Torstensdatter (1825-1865) of Farsund, Norway.

Birth:

Maria was born in Greenwich Village in Manhattan on February 16, 1895. The New York City Birth Index incorrectly lists her as "Mary E. Weinblad".

Siblings:

Maria's siblings are: Anton Julius Winblad (1886-1975) aka Anthony Winblad, who married Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) and after her death married Marguerite Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1891-1972) aka Marge Van Rensselaer Schuyler; Theodora Winblad (1888) who died as an infant; Mary Winblad (1889) who died as an infant; Otto Edward Winblad (1892) who died as an infant; John Edward Winblad II (1897-1899) aka Eddie Winblad, who died as a youth from pertussis; and Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977) who was born in New Jersey and married Helen Louise Hollenbach (1905-1928) and after her death he married Leah Maria Way (1901-1986).

New Jersey:

The family moved out of Manhattan to live in the quiet of New Jersey around 1900. They had a new house built on Wayne Street in Jersey City. Otto Perry Winblad was born in 1902 in Jersey City.

Isle of Pines, Cuba:

In 1910 the family decided that they would move to the Isle of Pines in Cuba. John Winblad had wanted to be a plantation owner, and many other American families moved to the Isle of Pines during this time. Maria spent a year and a half in Cuba, where she rode a horse named "Happy". She said when she arrived in Cuba there was no one there to greet her, and she had to get help to find out how to get to the Isle of Pines from Havana.

Marriage:

She returned from Cuba to Jersey City on March 26, 1912 with her brother Otto. While in Jersey City she met Arthur Oscar Freudenberg I (1891-1968), who was a Sunday School teacher at Waverly Congregation Church. Maria was a very devout Lutheran at Trinity Scandinavian Church in Jersey City. Maria and Arthur married on February 28, 1914 at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 195 Claremont Avenue in Jersey City.

Death of parents:

Maria's father and mother attended her wedding, and then they went to Norway to visit family. Both parents died within a few months of each other in 1914. Otto Winblad was with them in Norway and returned to live with Maria and Arthur in Jersey City on July 6, 1915. On the same day that Otto arrived from Norway, Maria's brother, Anton and his wife Eva returned from Cuba with their two children: Anthony Leroy Winblad and Norman Edward Winblad. They brought with them Eva's two youngest brothers: Theodore Roosevelt Lattin; and Dewey Ernest Lattin. Eva's father and mother stayed in Cuba until 1924 and then settled in Lake Helen in Florida. Otto lived with Maria and Arthur from 1914 until he married in 1927.

Children:

Together Maria and Arthur had the following children: Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) who married Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) aka Peter Van Deusen; Selma Luise Freudenberg (1921-2009); and Helen Eloise Freudenberg (1928-1989) who had a child with Edward Ganley and later married John Earl Borland I (1924-1986) and later married Albert Brindley.

Abandoned by husband:

Around 1928 Arthur abandoned Maria, although he appears as the head of household in the 1930 census. The oral family tradition has been that Arthur ran off with a burlesque stripper. At the height of the depression, Maria lived on Claremont Avenue in Jersey City and raised her three children earning money by being the superintendent of a four-unit rental property owned by someone else. She took in laundry, scrubbed floors, and prepared meals for other families. She did all that she could to keep the family housed and fed. Arthur never provided any money and lived with his mistress. Maria wore her wedding ring for the rest of her life.

Middle years:

When Maria's children got married she split her time between them, living at their houses. She lived in Paramus for a number of years and also spent time with Pete and Naida at their home.

Broken hip:

In the late 1970s she broke her hip in Paramus and was confined to the Lutheran nursing home in Jersey City.

Death:

She died in 1987 of a heart attack at age 92 at Christ Hospital.

Burial:

She was buried in Bayview Cemetery. In the same plot are the ashes of her daughter, Helen; and her brother who died as an infant, John Edward Winblad II.

Archive:

Many of her letters are extant and archived.

Memories of Maria Elizabeth Winblad:

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) wrote on February 20, 2011. When my parents moved to Paramus, Maria lived with us for several years. She did the cooking and used to wash me in the kitchen sink. It is one of my earliest memories about her. Everyone called her "Nanny". She could read and speak Norwegian and had a Norwegian bible. She was very religious and would go to church events during the week and never miss a Sunday sermon at the Lutheran church. She was a very good cook and once told me that she cooked professionally at one time. She would make Swedish meatballs in gravy and would never buy ground beef, she would buy whole cuts and grind the meat herself. She also made excellent desserts, apple pies and lemon meringue pies. If I asked her what was going to be for desert she would tease me and say "apple sauce". Another dish she made that I enjoyed was Harvard beets, its beets in a sweet and vinegary sauce. I am not sure of the year she broke her hip but I was there when it happened, she was standing in the doorway to my room and talking to me while I was in bed when she just leaned against the doorway and collapsed, her hip had fractured and could no longer hold her weight. After the hospital she moved into the Lutheran Home in Jersey City and I would visit her. The home was a terrible place, but she was happy there, because she had volunteered there was she was younger and she still would visit other rooms in her wheelchair and share whatever cookies or candies I brought her. The home had a mix of demented patients and the infirmed. Some of the demented patients would be screaming or crying continuously. She had a heart attack in 1987 and was moved to Christ Hospital and I visited her the night she died.

Eulogy:

Her eulogy reads as follows: "Mae Freudenberg was born Saturday, February 16, 1895 in New York City. Her parents were members of the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in downtown Jersey City. Mae was a member of Trinity for most of her life, and her children were all baptized there also many of her grandchildren. She taught Sunday School and was a member of Glad Tjeneste. On the 95th anniversary of Trinity, Mae received a certificate of recognition for her years of faithful service to the church. For about fifteen years, Mae was a volunteer of services to the Lutheran Home on Nelson Avenue in Jersey City."

Source:

Researched and written by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) for Findagrave starting on June 16, 2003.

Update:

Updated by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) on February 20, 2011 with minor fixes.

Last night before bedtime I discovered a whole new side of the Norton family in Boston, Massachusetts

2011-07-19T11:34:00.002-04:00

Last night before bedtime I discovered a whole new side of the Norton family in Boston, Massachusetts.

I was going through Familysearch on Monday, July 18, 2011. Familysearch is the Mormon website, they have lots of data but the absolute worst user interface. For the ten years I had been searching in it, the database would not allow me to search for the junction between two last names. They finally allowed those searches sometime this year. Last night I searched in the database for any Mulligan - Norton children or marriages and the result was James T. Norton (1849-1898) and Catherine A. Norton (1851-1913) Murphy of Boston, Massachusetts. The dates fit perfectly as a sibling of Patrick Norton. Patrick came from Boston and was naturalized in Boston according to a photocopy of a naturalization record that was passed down in the family. The connection to my Michael Norton (c1825-?) and Bridget Mulligan (c1825-?) is still tentative but all the given names exist in my side of the family too. There is no document that ties James T. Norton and Catherine A. Norton (1851-1913) Murphy to my Patrick J. Norton, but I may find a funeral notice that mentions the family in New Jersey. The only evidence so far is the name of the parents. I called the cemetery on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 and the said Catherine A. Norton (1851-1913) Murphy was buried with John Murphy, age 14, who died on March 25, 1895; and Thomas Murphy who died on March 12, 1969 at age 84.

Tombstone of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963)

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Tombstone of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963) taken on July 15, 2011 at Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, Bergen County, NJ, USA. Image by Lucy (#47342948) via Findagrave.

Siegmund Freudenberg (1828-1908)

2011-07-12T08:37:00.001-04:00

Siegmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) aka Sigmund Freudenberg was a worker at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York and Philadelphia. (b. 1828, possibly Berlin, Germany - March 23, 1908, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA)

Birth:

He was born in 1828 in Berlin where his children were born. He listed "Prussia" in the 1870 census as his place of birth.

Religion:

Sigmund Freudenberg was Jewish.

First marriage:

Sigmund married Clara Horwitz (1835-c1861) on January 3, 1856 in Eisleben, Germany. Eisleben was the hometown of Martin Luther. The wedding was Jewish and Sigmund and Clara were listed as Jewish. Clara was transcribed as "Anna". Sigmund Freudenberg was working as a "kaufmann", or tradesman. The full text in German is as follows: "1857. Laut Verhandlung vom 22. Dezember 1856, (Vol I, fol. 258, den Akten der Beglaubigungen der Heiraten unter den Juden betreffend) haben der Kaufmann Siegmund Freudenberg zu Berlin und die Jungfrau Clara Harwitz, Tochter des verstorbenen Kaufmanns Aronn Harwitz, zu Eisleben geboren, am vierten März 1832, welche zu der jüdischen Glaubensgemeinschaft zugehören, erklärt, daß sie fortan als ehelich miteinander verbunden betrachten wollen. Eisleben, am dritten Januar eintausend achthundert siebenundfünfzig. Schnorbusch Protokollführer." Translated into English it reads: "1857. According to law of December 22, 1856, (Volume I, folio 258, the files of the legalization of marriages among Jews) have the merchant Siegmund Freudenberg of Berlin and the virgin Clara Horwitz, daughter of the late businessman Aronne Horwitz of Eisleben, born on the March 4, 1832, which belong to the Jewish community, declared that henceforth it will consider as legitimate linked. Eisleben, January 3, 1857. Schnorbusch, secretary."

Berlin:

By 1858 he was living in Berlin where his children were born. The first clue that the family was from Berlin came from the World War I draft registration of Richard F. Freudenberg (1896-1988) in 1918. Richard was his grandson.

Children:

Maximillian S. Freudenberg I (1858-1921) who was born in Berlin, Germany; Alfred Freudenberg (1859–?); and Gertrude Freudenberg (1867–1940) who married Martin Schoenwald (1861-1941). All the children were born in Berlin. That information comes from the 1870 census.

Death of first wife:

Clara most likely died in childbirth in Germany or when she arrived in the US between 1861 and 1863.

Emigration:

Sigmund and his children came to the United States around 1863-1865 and they appear in the 1870 US census.

Second marriage:

He married Augusta Hermann (1835-1904) between 1865 and 1868. Augusta was from Walldorf, Saxon, Germany according to the 1870 census.

Children:

Kate Freudenberg (1869–bef1880); Carry Hildise Freudenberg (1871–bef1880); Harriette Freudenberg (1871–bef1880); and Jennie Freudenberg (1872–1943) who married an Eidelman. All were born in Manhattan.

Manhattan and Philadelphia:

In 1870 he was living in Manhattan, New York City, New York and was listed as "Siegmund Freudenberg". He was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He resided in Ward 15, District 12 in Manhattan. In 1880 he was living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at age 51. Siegmund resided at 935 North 6th Street. His occupation was listed as "life insurance". In 1905 he was living in Manhattan, New York City, New York and was listed as the retired father-in-law of Joseph Eidelman.

Death:

He died on March 23, 1908 at 2 East 116th Street in Harlem in Manhattan. His death certificate was number "9795" and he died of asthma with chronic bronchitis.

Burial:

Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Relationship:

Sigmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) was the second great-grandfather of Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ).

Source:

Researched and written by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) for Findagrave starting on September 10, 2003.

Updates:

"Siegmund Freudenberg" (1830-1908) who died on March 23, 1908 in Manhattan was a suspect for being our Sigmund but there was no evidence. The family oral tradition was the Max came alone as crew on a ship and stayed on in the US illegally by "jumping ship". Sigmund never appeared in the 1880 or 1900 census with other family members and he was not buried with the other family members in Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn; or in Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey. On June 6, 2011, Kevin Borland discovered more information on Sigmund Freudenberg from the 1870 census that contained both Max and Sigmund together. The information was improperly transcribed at Ancestry.com but was correctly transcribed at Familysearch.com. This let him connect the Sigmund that died in 1908 to our Sigmund. He wrote: "I also found Sigmund Freudenburg's second wife Augusta, after Clara died. Sigmund had a [daughter] Gertrude, and a [daughter] Jennie, hence the origin of the name Jenny Gertrude. We'll have to search Philadelphia records to prove it's the same family, but I think it is, because Max is in the household in 1870 when they lived in New York, before Sigmund shows up in Philadelphia 1880. Sigmund sold life insurance. His office was across the street from the US Mint. Siegmund Freudenberg died March 23, 1908 in Manhattan. Up until then, he was living with his daughter Jennie (Freudenberg) Eidelman." Kevin then found him in the 1880 census and the 1905 census and found the names of the children from his second wife. On June 8, 2011, I found the marriage online and found that Max and Clara were married in a Jewish ceremony. I also found the death date for his second wife, Augusta. The information makes sense since Max ended up working at the same company as Sigmund, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The name Sigmund Freudenberg is very rare so that the odds of two of them born around the the same time being confused is remote.

Augusta Hermann (1835-1904) Freudenberg

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Augusta Hermann (1835-1904) Freudenberg (b. 1835; Walldorf, Saxon, Germany - d. November 22, 1904; Manhattan, New York, USA)

Parents:
Simon Hermann and Golda Hermann according to her death certificate.

Birth:
She was born in Walldorf, Saxon, Germany. The information came from the 1870 US census for Manhattan.

Religion:
Augusta Hermann was Jewish.

Hoboken, New Jersey:
There is an Augusta Hermann in the 1860 census in Hoboken, New Jersey who may be our Augusta.

Marriage:
She married Siegmund Freudenberg around 1868.

Children:
Kate Freudenberg (1869–before 1880); Carry Hildise Freudenberg (1871–before 1880); Harriette Freudenberg (1871–before 1880); and Jennie Freudenberg (1872–1943) Eidelman.

Death:
She died on November 22, 1904 at age 69 in Manhattan. Her death certificate number was "38196". She died under the name "Augusta Freudenberg". She had been hospitalized from September 6, 1904 to November 22, 1904. The cause of death was "carcinoma of stomach" with "mitral regurgitation".

Burial:
Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. It is a Jewish cemetery.

Schoenwalds in Washington Cemetery

2011-07-12T08:25:00.002-04:00

Schoenwalds in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York

Martin Schoenwald (1868-1941), died on July 23, 1941

Gertrude Freudenberg (1868-1940) Schoenwald , died on July 27, 1940

Joseph Schoenwald, August 29, 1936

Philip Schoenwald, August 15, 1907

Rosa Schoenwald, no information

Frieda Schoenwald, August 11, 1941

Harry Schoenwald, April 13, 1906

Stephen Schoenwald, August 12, 1917, age 3

Yosemite

2011-06-24T15:09:00.002-04:00

I went to Yosemite National Park on Monday, June 20, 2011. I left from Sacramento around 9:00 am and arrived in Groveland, California to eat around 11:30. We then went into the park and visited Bridalveil Fall. You can walk up close to the base of the waterfall and get soaked. As you approach the air gets very cool from the evaporating water absorbing all the surrounding heat. The wind also picks up and is forceful enough to make people unsteady on their feet. Next was a visit to Lower Yosemite Falls then a hike to Mirror lake.

Image: Behind me is El Capitan and a seasonal waterfall that comes from the melting ice pack.

Sigmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) marriage in Eisleben, Germany

2011-06-16T16:45:00.005-04:00

Sigmund Freudenberg (1828-1908) aka Siegmund Freudenberg, and Clara Horwitz (1835-c1861) married on January 3, 1856 in Eisleben, Germany.

"1857. Laut Verhandlung vom 22. Dezember 1856, (Vol I, fol. 258, den Akten der Beglaubigungen der Heiraten unter den Juden betreffend) haben der Kaufmann Siegmund Freudenberg zu Berlin und die Jungfrau Clara Harwitz, Tochter des verstorbenen Kaufmanns Aronn Harwitz, zu Eisleben geboren, am vierten März 1832, welche zu der jüdischen Glaubensgemeinschaft zugehören, erklärt, daß sie fortan als ehelich miteinander verbunden betrachten wollen. Eisleben, am dritten Januar eintausend achthundert siebenundfünfzig. Schnorbusch Protokollführer."

German to English:
1857. According to law of December 22, 1856, (Volume I, folio 258, the files of the legalization of marriages among Jews) have the merchant Siegmund Freudenberg of Berlin and the virgin Clara Horwitz, daughter of the late businessman Aronne Horwitz of Eisleben, born on the March 4, 1832, which belong to the Jewish community, declared that henceforth it will consider as legitimate linked. Eisleben, January 3, 1857. Schnorbusch, secretary.

Kevin Borland on Sigmund Freudenberg (1828-1908)

2011-06-07T11:24:00.005-04:00

Kevin Borland wrote on June 7, 2011: "If you're up, do you have a copy of where we got Max Freudenberg's birth date. I see there are two different birth years on the Internet. Also, I think I found Clara Horwitz' paternal grandparents, Abraham Horwitz and Pauline Froelich. I also found Sigmund Freudenburg's second wife Augusta, after Clara died. Sigmund had a full-sister Gertrude, and a half-sister Jennie, hence the origin of the name Jenny Gertrude. We'll have to search Philadelphia records to prove it's the same family, but I think it is, because Max is in the household in 1870 when they lived in New York, before Sigmund shows up in Philadelphia 1880. Sigmund sold life insurance. His office was across the street from the US Mint. Siegmund Freudenberg died March 23, 1908 in Manhattan. Up until then, he was living with his daughter Jennie (Freudenberg) Eidelman."

Vegetarianism

2011-05-22T18:51:00.002-04:00

My son, Daniel told me today that he decided to not eat chicken or fish anymore and to make his vegetarianism stricter. Today is May 22, 2011 and we were driving back from seeing the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. He had stopped eating beef on April 16, 2000. It was his sister, Sara's, 9th birthday. Sara wanted steak which was her favorite food and she asked me let her help prepare it. When she saw the bloody piece of meat she said she could not eat it. Bother Daniel and Sara said they would not eat meat from mammals anymore. I asked him what made him decide to become stricter and he said it was reading about vegetarianism on the Internet.

The missing Freudenberg child that died on May 1, 1879

2011-02-07T21:37:00.003-05:00

A second Freudenberg mystery solved today thanks to the revamped Familysearch.org. All this information was probably there in their database for a decade but was inaccessible because of their terrible user interface that restricted even the simplest searches. I always knew my grandfather was 1 of 15 children, my mom told me that and it was confirmed in the census. Of the 15 only 9 lived to adulthood and only 5 went on to have grandchildren. Today I found the death of the missing, 15th child, it was their first and he died, un-named on May 1, 1879.

Familysearch.org

2011-02-07T20:58:00.003-05:00

The Church of the Latter Day Saints finally upgraded their website after about 15 years. The old site was so frustrating. It would not you do a standard Boolean search by adding what data you want into the fields. It always demanded that certain fields be filled in and other not filled in. The result was I could never search for say "Freudenberg" and "Lindauer". It always demanded that I had to put in a first name, or could only search on one name. The error message would read: "If you enter a last name without a first name, you must not fill in any other field except a country."

Since the new search has been in place I have been able to find dozens of birth and deaths that were in the database but were inaccessible because of the odd search restrictions.

Maximillian S. Freudenberg III (1893-1900)

2011-02-07T20:55:00.001-05:00

A minor family mystery was solved today. I found the death of Maximillian S. Freudenberg III (1893-1900). I always thought he died as an infant then a years ago I found him still alive in the 1900 US census in Hoboken. He didn't live much longer past the census and died at age 7. The name was a curse, his younger brother, Maximillian S. Freudenberg II (1881) only lived for 11 days. I just hope he wasn't buried in Hoboken Cemetery. They are notorious for reselling the graves of children if there was no tombstone.

Mrs. James Clarkson, Mrs. Murray Goldstein, Mrs. Paul Russell, Mrs. Frederick Sortine, Mrs. Thomas Norton and Mrs. George Hollister

2011-01-31T23:00:00.000-05:00

What the well dressed women of Paramus will wear is shown by members of the Ridge Ranch Social Club last Tuesday night at their fashion show in the multi-purpose room of the school. Pictured in their casual attire for the show are Mrs. James Clarkson, Mrs. Murray Goldstein, Mrs. Paul Russell, Mrs. Frederick Sortine, Mrs. Thomas Norton and Mrs. George Hollister.

The image is circa 1955-1960 in Paramus, New Jersey. Shown is Selma Louise Norton (1921-2009).

Louis Julius Lindauer (1838-1915) in the 1905 New York census

2011-01-25T17:08:00.003-05:00

Louis Julius Lindauer (1838-1915) in the 1905 New York census living at 201 88th Street in Manhattan.

Louis Julius Lindauer (1838-1915)
Grace Lindauer (1873-?) Massey, who lived till at least 1930
Jennie Lindauer (1874-?) who lived till at least 1905
Ada Lindauer (1882-?) who lived till at least 1930

Postcard from Sopie Marie Olsdatter (1852-1924) Nilsen to Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) Freudenberg on January 15, 1910

2011-01-22T14:34:00.002-05:00

Postcard from Sopie Marie Olsdatter (1852-1924) Nilsen to Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) Freudenberg on January 15, 1910. The text has been translated from Norwegian to English: "Miss Maria Winblad, New York. Dear niece Maria, Aunt Sofie [ Sofie Olesdatter of Farsund, Norway] would now like to send you her and grandfather's [Ole Matthais Pedersen] New Year's greetings and everything good in this year is wished to you; greetings to Tony [Anton Julius Winblad II]."

Ralph Bozarth I (1917-2002) and Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998), and Burnett Van Deusen (1913-1993) at the 1980 Winter Olympics

2011-01-21T16:36:00.002-05:00

Ralph Milton Bozarth I (1917-2002) with his hand raised, and Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998), and Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Ralph Milton Bozarth was living at Lake Placid at the time. Image from the collection of Tracey DePaola.

1914 as the annus horribilis with three deaths in the family in Farsund, Norway

2011-01-21T14:47:00.001-05:00

1914 as the annus horribilis with three deaths in the family in Farsund, Norway. The first to die was Ole Mathias Pedersen (1822-1914) on August 24, 1914. His daughter came when he was dying or for the funeral. I haven't found her arriving in Norway on a ship manifest yet to know the exact date. John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) died of cancer on September 24, 1914, just 31 days after the death of Ole. Salmine Sophia Severine Olesdatter Pedersen (1862-1914) died on December 18, 1914 of a heart attack, just 79 days after her husband (2 months, 18 days). All three deaths are recorded on the same page of the Farsund churchbook.

Eugene Freudenberg II (1925-1945) tombstone

2011-01-15T00:27:00.001-05:00

Eugene Freudenberg II (1925-1945) was a private in the US Army, and was killed in action in World War II (b. June 29, 1925, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA - d. January 24, 1945, Luzon, Philippines) Military Service Number 42014477.

Eugene enlisted as a private in the US Army on September 17, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey. He had dropped out of high school after one year and wasn't employed. He was killed in the Battle of Luzon on January 24, 1945 just 15 days into the US invasion. Eugene was buried at the Santa Barbara Number 1 Cemetery in the Philippines and was disinterred on August 30, 1948. His skeletal remains were reinterred at Beverly National Cemetery in New Jersey on February 11, 1949. They initially used a Star of David on his plot because they thought the name Freudenberg was Jewish. His mother, Florence, went to visit the cemetery on October 24, 1949 and told the cemetery officials that he was Lutheran and they replaced the Star of David with a Latin Cross in the photo.

Image by Michael X. Bell on January 14, 2011.

Note to self: Don't eat any nuts

2011-01-06T12:57:00.002-05:00

I just remembered that I cant seem to digest any nuts at all. On January 4, 2010 I bought a fruitcake filled with walnuts, and pecans, and maraschino cherries, and devoured about 25% of it over two days. Last night I was up all night with cramps and woke up to diarrhea and all the nuts were undigested. The same thing happened when I ate a whole bag of granola last year. My grandmother died in 1987 but she used to take off the nuts from anything she was eating, and she told me she couldn't digest them. Back then I had no idea what she was taking about. Now I understand with great clarity. Here is the fruitcake I bought from Costco. It has just as many nuts and fruit on the inside.

Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1836-1921) of Lindauer & Co., tobacconist

2010-12-03T17:18:00.002-05:00

Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1836-1921) of Lindauer & Co., tobacconist. Charles and his brother Louis Julius Lindauer (1838-1915) operated tobacco stores in Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan, that made and sold cigars. They also used the stores for their numbers racket. In 1894 he was outed by the Lexow Commission as a minor player in the numbers racket and he used the opportunity to retire and he moved to a mansion in Rye, New York.

"Jersey City, June 1, 1889. August Mueller, who was the collector in this city for Lindauer & Co., tobacconist, was sent to jail this morning for contempt of court. His employers were dissatisfied with his returns and had a receiver appointed to examine his accounts. Mueller refused to surrender his books and his arrest followed."

Source: Newark Sunday Call; June 2, 1889

Ben & Jack's Steakhouse for a surreal dinner

2010-09-30T00:21:00.006-04:00

I ate at Ben & Jack's Steakhouse tonight in what was the most surreal dinner I have attended in my life. It was a medical seminar attended by Manhattan physicians and scientists. They seemed like they were in a scripted TV situation comedy, only this was a seminar with a distinguished speaker. ... The side dishes were served family style. A Korean physician to my left, Dr. Lee, wouldn't give up her used salad plate when the waiter came, despite him trying to take it twice. She wore bright blue eye shadow, the way women wore makeup in the 1970s. I soon found out why she needed it, she piled all the food onto her plates from the dishes of potato and spinach that were circulating. Since she was on my left, no food was coming from that direction, and her plate was now overflowing with the delicious pan fried potatoes with sautéed onions. And in the middle of the seminar during the discussion of extrapyramidal symptoms caused by neuroleptics, she screamed at an attendee across from her for asking a question of the speaker: "You do this all the time with the questions, why can't you just be quiet. You are so impatient, always with the questions." The speaker said that she welcomed questions, and the reason she was there was to answer any questions we had. Lee again said in a bellowing voice that brought an instant hush to the room: "Why does she have to ask questions, why can't she wait till the end." This time the speaker took a long sip from her wine glass, looked around the room, let out an audible sigh.

Since no side dishes were coming from my left, I concentrated on my right. The situation wasn't much better, a mother-daughter pair of Russian physicians were there. The older one took her steak and put in a plastic bag she brought and stuffed it into her pocket book. My steak came and was served a special way. They tilt the plate so the fat and juices run to the edge and then move the meat to your plate. The Russian woman to my right shouted out: "Why does he get such service, who is he ... Tsar?" Again this is mid seminar on a serious topic for continuing education credits.The speaker was about half a meter away, we were at the end of the table and the projection screen was less than a meter away. Then she stuck her fork into my meat on my plate and said: "Let me try Tsar's food" and she absconded with a chunk of my sirloin. About 5 minutes later she shouted as loud as she could to no one in particular, but hoping a waiter would hear her: "We need potatoes, no more potatoes here. Everyone else have potatoes but we have none." The speaker stopped and looked for her wine glass but it was already empty. She stared straight ahead at the wall, and was biting her lip. She started to talk again but was silenced by the apparatchik on my right: "I need potato, everyone else have potato. I want potato." This time it was directed at the waiter in charge of drinks, he gave her the finger to the lips, the universal sign to be quiet, and she stopped shouting.

I looked to my left and that woman, Dr. Lee, as the man to her left called her, was taking the bottle of steak sauce and putting it into her pocketbook. She was also moving all the food she had hoarded into a takeout container they had given her.

At least there was dessert to look forward to since I wasn't getting any creamed spinach or potatoes. Only dessert was a worse nightmare. Like a nightmare inside a nightmare, only there was no Leonardo DiCaprio to shock me out of it like in the movie Inception. Dr. Lee was taking the entire plate of family style desserts and loading them into a second takeout container, two pieces of chocolate cheesecake and a piece of apple strudel and a piece of regular cheesecake and a wad of whipped cream designed for eight people to share. To my right my only hope was that the Russians would feel pity for me. They took the chocolate cheesecakes and all the whipped cream. All of it. That left the strudel for me, but no whipped cream. They also had a strategy for seconds, they said they didn't get any dessert to the waiter, who looked down at their used dessert plates and just said "uh-huh". As I was leaving he was bringing them one more helping to share.

As I was leaving I went up to the speaker and apologized. She had gotten her glass of wine refilled. I said: "That was the rudest audience I have every seen, you were amazingly patient." All she could say was "No shit!"

Jimbo Wales and Lucy Nolan and Wikipedia

2010-09-29T23:14:00.006-04:00

It looks like I made Jimbo Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, mad today. I have always respected him, and I am a top contributor to Wikipedia. But I noticed the Jimbo Wales was nominating the article on Lucy Nolan, the TV reporter, in Wikipedia for deletion. In 2008 he was involved in edits in the article of a woman he was dating, Rachel Marsden, of Fox TV. He announced the end of their relationship on his Wikipedia page. In retaliation, she put his t-shirt and sweater he had left at her place up for sale on eBay. I wrote on the discussion page for the Lucy Nolan article: "Does this presage more underwear on Ebay? Just wondering." Giving it some thought, I deleted it. Wales noticed anyway and he emailed me: "That's disgusting. For the record, I do not know Lucy Nolan and have had no contact or communication with her about this issue. You should be ashamed of yourself, really."

Marion Lattin Dilthey and Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) and Aaron Stern in the St. Petersburg Times on April 15, 1977

2010-09-22T12:46:00.004-04:00

Julia Marion Poole Dilthey (1910-2005) and Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) and Aaron Stern (1876-?) in the St. Petersburg Times on April 15, 1977

Last Sunday’s story about Stern’s pickle works in Farmingdale, NY, is of particular interest to Mrs. Marion Dilthey of Pinellas Park. She was born in Farmingdale, and lived there many years, and her grandfather,Jarvis Lattin was a partner of Aaron Stern, who built the pickle works in the late 1800s. The plant in-fact, is on land which was owned by Jarvis Lattin.

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal on December 4, 1936

2010-09-22T12:19:00.000-04:00

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941) in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal on December 4, 1936

Lattin Trial Later. Jarvis Lattin who was arrested yesterday on a charge of assault against his wife in their Lake Helen home Monday afternoon will not tried until his health has improved considerably, ... Lattin was removed from the county jail this afternoon to the DeLand Memorial hospital on recommendation of his physician, Dr. Hugh West. The 84-year-old retired banker is reported to be suffering from acute alcoholism.

September 11, 2001 remembrances on 9th anniversary

2010-09-11T15:51:00.004-04:00

September 11, 2001 remembrances on 9th anniversary.

For September 11, 2001 I was in Baltimore, Maryland at the Society for Bimolecular Screening (SBS) trade show. I was working for ASDI at the time. I heard from the woman in the booth next to mine that her mother had called her to tell her that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center ...

I drove a group of people back to New Jersey, Sophia Liang from Aurora Biomed in Vancouver and her father. They had a booth at the trade show and their next appointment was with Bristol Meyers Squibb in Princeton.

A short time later I went to Ground Zero with a woman I knew from the Internet, Judy Lanza (1959- ) and I took photos and collected some ash that I now keep in an amber jar.

Contacts quota limit in Gmail limits the use for enterprise

2010-09-02T17:30:00.002-04:00

It looks like Google's Gmail has a quota limit for the number of contacts you can add, which seriously limits it as an enterprise tool. It looks like the limit is 8,000 contacts. Once you reach it its stops you from adding new information and adding new people. I guess you have to start axing people from your contact list. I hope you delete the right people. Anyway, I can see why businesses avoid Gmail and stick to the old school software where you can save till you run out of hard drive space. I think I add about 2K contacts a year. A good trade show will give me over 1,000 contacts, and as many as 2K contacts per show.

Picasa vs. Flickr

2010-08-27T12:53:00.004-04:00

Why does Google's Picasa web Albums still lag behind Flickr in versatility? In Flickr I can adjust the date for an image in a field. This is especially important when I scan an historical image. I want the date to be the date the image was taken, not the date that it was scanned that Google takes from the meta data. Flickr also lets me sort the images in any folder by the date. This adds utility to any folder. I can watch myself age as I progress through images of my youth to my current age. Scanned articles are now in chronological order. Flickr also has flexibility in the date fields for historical images so I can just pick a year, or just a month and a year. There is also a "circa" box I can check to let someone in the future know that there is uncertainty built into the date.

Wachovia gift card ripoff

2010-08-17T01:08:00.002-04:00

What a ripoff a Wachovia gift card is. The person giving it to you pays cash for it, but after 12 months Wachovia charges you $2.50 a month as a service fee and deducts it from the card until all the money on the card is taken back by Wachovia. Why would you need to have a service fee if you are not using any service? Well, the answer is: so Wachovia can keep all the money on the card. I love laissez faire economics. There is also no telephone number on the card, and no easy access from the website to check the balance on the card. If you have $100 on the card, and the purchase is $107 with tax, the purchase gets declined. Ideally it would take the $100 on the card and the register would say that you owe $7 in cash. The only reason to not do that is to make it hard to use the card so that the $2.50 monthly fee starts to kick in.

Windows Vista problem with Switch User

2010-08-14T16:36:00.003-04:00

I am running Windows Vista and I still have the problem that when you try to switch between user accounts the computer just goes to a black screen, and the only way to get control of the computer back is to do a hard reboot by switching the computer off then on again. I have searched forums and found other users with the same problem but no solution, I thought that one of the updates would have taken care of it by now. The Microsoft help forum acknowledges the problem and says that is caused by third party software. It offers no solution ... or hope.

Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954

2010-08-06T00:19:00.003-04:00

Thomas P. Norton

268 Gorden Drive

Paramus, New Jersey

Oradel 8-6233 R

Office Manager

______________

Currently employed as Office Manager at Mutual Chemical Company of America, Jersey City Works, with twelve years of diversified management and executive experience in continuous-type, heavy-chemical, industrial plant of 350 employees. Responsible for Tímekeeping and Payroll, Plant Accounting Department and related Office Services with particular emphasis on Burroughs Machine Accounting, Office Systems and Cost Control.

I have a thorough knowledge of all Burroughs Accounting Machine Operations including: Unit and dual plan payroll writing; cost distribution; accounts payable (voucher register and cash disbursements); accounts receivable; stores inventory control; general ledger posting; billing; and equipment history records for maintenance control. My experience includes operations on the Burroughs 7200, 7800 and Sensimatic machines.

I am experienced in Personnel Administration including: wage and salary programs; union contract negotiations (with evaluation of union demands and interpretation in cents per hour); welfare plans (group insurance, hospitalization and pension programs); wage and employment surveys; employment and medical record keeping; plant safety program. I have had limited experience in employee interviews, recruitment, screening and hiring of new employees.

I have a working knowledge of Purchasing and Storeskeeping including: placing of bids, purchase orders and contracts; conducting price and market surveys; controlling maximum and minimum on hand quantities for a six thousand item maintenance stores inventory; conducting cyclic, periodic and reorder inventories.

I am also experienced in the flow of work from the origination of the purchase requisition through the passing of the invoice for payment.

I have had some experience in Traffic and Shipping; including domestic and export freight movement; receiving and warehousing.

I have worked with one of the leading management consultant firms in reorganizing our entire office progress; including the installation of a standard cost system.

I am interested in obtaining a position with a progressive organization as Office Manager or Assistant Office Manager, Burroughs Accounting Machine Supervisor or Administrative Assistant to the Plant Manager or Controller.

Chronological history of employment with Mutual Chemical of America

1/23/50 to date Office Manager as described on page one. I report directly to the Controller.

9/1/48 to 1/22/50 Assistant Office Manager (Generally the same as above but reported to the Office Manager) Did not hire new office employees.

12/30/46 to 8/31/48 Paymaster. Supervised Timekeeping and Payroll Departments.

4/1/46 to 12/29/46 Payroll Supervisor. Supervised Payroll Department only.

12/8/45 to 3/31/46 Production Clerk. Maintained all production records, calculated yields, throughputs and department volumes; issued reports on all phases of production. Reported to the Production Superintendent.

6/22/42 to 9/25/45
United States Navy Service. Honorable Discharge.

2/28/41 to 6/21/42
Traffic Clerk. Rated, routed and dispatched all outbound shipments. Handled routine claims for loss or damage. Paid freight bills on both inbound and outbound shipments. Maintained raw material receipts and finished goods shipped reports. Reported to the Traffic Manager.

History of prior employment

1938 to 1940 Traffic Clerk. Eagle Printing Ink Company, 165 Gates Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey.

Education

1933 to 1937 Graduate of Henry Snyder High School, Jersey City, New Jersey.
1937 to 1938 International Correspondence School. Course in "Railway Mail Clerk".
1939 to 1940 LaSalle Institute. Course in “Traffic Management”.
1943t o 1944 United States Armed Forces Institute. Course in "Traffic Management”.
1946 to 1948 New York University. Selected courses in Management, including: "Business Organization and Management","Office Management", "Traffic and Shipping" and “Purchasing and Storeskeeping".
1952 to date International Accountants Society. Presently taking ninety assignment course in "Accounting” with emphasis on Standard Costs.

I am also a member, through my company, of the American Management Association, Office Management Division; Society for the Advancement of Management, Northern New Jersey Chapter; Jersey City Industrial Forum; Rutgers University Extension Division; and the Jersey City Executives Club and take full advantage of the educational features of these organizations by attending as many lectures, forums, seminars and meetings as is possible.

Personal information
Born July 8, 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey. United States Citizen. Married. Have two children. Own my own home.

References

Mr. Jerome Dahan, Plant. Manager, Mutual Chemical Company of America, 201West Side Avenue, Jersey City 5, New Jersey.
Horace Walton, Controller, Mutual Chemical Company of America, 279 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York.
Mr. William J. Mackay, Treasurer, Mutual Chemical Company of' America, 270 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York.
Russell E. Stevens, Jr., Operations Manager New England Division of the Allstate Insurance Company, Regional Office, 10 Commerce Court, Newark 2, New Jersey. Formerly Office Manager at Mutual Chemical Company of America, Jersey City Works and my immediate superior for, three years.
Mr. Michael J. Noonan, Personnel Director, Universal-Rundle Corporation, River Road, Camden, New Jersey. Formerly Personnel Manager at Mutual Chemical Company of America, Jersey City Works and my associate for some five years.
Mr. George Street, Sales Supervisor, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, 92 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey.
Mr. Arthur Winter, Salesman, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, 4 Foye Place, Jersey City, New Jersey.

Source: Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954

Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954

2010-08-05T13:52:00.005-04:00

Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954

2010-08-05T13:33:00.010-04:00

Thomas P. Norton
268 Gorden Drive
Paramus, New Jersey
Oradel 8-6233 R
Office Manager
______________

Currently employed as Office Manager at Mutual Chemical Company of America, Jersey City Works, with twelve years of diversified management and executive experience in continuous-type, heavy-chemical, industrial plant of 350 employees. Responsible for Tímekeepíng and Payroll, Plant Accounting Department and related Offíce Services with particular emphasis on Burroughs Machine Accounting, Office Systems and Cost Control. I have a thorough knowledge of all Burroughs Accounting Machine Operations including: Unit and dual plan payroll writing; cost distribution; accounts payable (voucher register and cash disbursements); accounts receivable; stores inventory control; general ledger posting; billing; and equipment history records for maintenance control. My experience includes operations on the Burroughs 7200, 7800 and Sensimatíc machines.

I am experienced in Personnel Administration including: wage and salary programs; union contract negotiations (with evaluation of union demands and interpretation in cents per hour); welfare plans (group insurance, hospitalization and pension programs); wage and employment surveys; employment and medical record keeping; plant safety program. I have had limited experience in employee interviews, recruitment, screening and hiring of new employees.

I have a working knowledge of Purchasing and Storeskeepíng including: placing of bids, purchase orders and contracts; conducting price and market surveys; controlling maximum and minimum on hand quantities for a six thousand item maintenance stores inventory; conducting cyclic, periodic and reorder inventories.

I am also experienced in the flow of work from the origination of the purchase requisition through the passing of the invoice for payment.

I have had some experience in Traffic and Shipping; including domestic and export freight movement; receiving and warehousing.

I have worked with one of the leading management consultant firms in reorganizing our entire office progress; including the installation of a standard cost system.

I am interested in obtaining a position with a progressive organization as Office Manager or Assistant Office Manager, Burroughs Accounting Machine Supervisor or Administrative Assistant to the Plant Manager or Controller.

Source: Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954Thomas P. Norton
268 Gorden Drive
Paramus, New Jersey
Oradel 8-6233 R
Office Manager
______________

Currently employed as Office Manager at Mutual Chemical Company of America, Jersey City Works, with twelve years of diversified management and executive experience in continuous-type, heavy-chemical, industrial plant of 350 employees. Responsible for Tímekeepíng and Payroll, Plant Accounting Department and related Offíce Services with particular emphasis on Burroughs Machine Accounting, Office Systems and Cost Control. I have a thorough knowledge of all Burroughs Accounting Machine Operations including: Unit and dual plan payroll writing; cost distribution; accounts payable (voucher register and cash disbursements); accounts receivable; stores inventory control; general ledger posting; billing; and equipment history records for maintenance control. My experience includes operations on the Burroughs 7200, 7800 and Sensimatíc machines.

I am experienced in Personnel Administration including: wage and salary programs; union contract negotiations (with evaluation of union demands and interpretation in cents per hour); welfare plans (group insurance, hospitalization and pension programs); wage and employment surveys; employment and medical record keeping; plant safety program. I have had limited experience in employee interviews, recruitment, screening and hiring of new employees.

I have a working knowledge of Purchasing and Storeskeepíng including: placing of bids, purchase orders and contracts; conducting price and market surveys; controlling maximum and minimum on hand quantities for a six thousand item maintenance stores inventory; conducting cyclic, periodic and reorder inventories.

I am also experienced in the flow of work from the origination of the purchase requisition through the passing of the invoice for payment.

I have had some experience in Traffic and Shipping; including domestic and export freight movement; receiving and warehousing.

I have worked with one of the leading management consultant firms in reorganizing our entire office progress; including the installation of a standard cost system.

I am interested in obtaining a position with a progressive organization as Office Manager or Assistant Office Manager, Burroughs Accounting Machine Supervisor or Administrative Assistant to the Plant Manager or Controller.

Source: Thomas Patrick Norton III (1920- ) resume circa 1952-1954

Wedding of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) to Wladyslawa Joan Dombrowska (1916-1995)

2010-08-04T06:14:00.001-04:00

Wedding of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) to Wladyslawa Joan Dombrowska (1916-1995) in 1964. Image from the collection of Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) scanned by Mark Andrew Dahl (1970- ) in 2010.

Anthony Falletta, Jr. (1965-2010)

2010-08-03T20:08:00.003-04:00

Anthony Falletta, Jr. (1965-2010) died in a car accident along the Garden State Parkway. (b. January 18, 1965; Paterson, New Jersey - August 2, 2010; AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Pomona, New Jersey)

Obituary:
Anthony Falletta Jr, age 45 of Island Heights, passed away Monday, August 2nd at AtlantiCare Regional MedicalCenter. Born in Paterson, he was raised in Jefferson Township, lived in Hamilton Square before moving to Island Heights six years ago. He was employed as a Project Superintendent for The Earle Companies in Wall Township. He was a member of United Methodist Church in Island Heights. All who knew Anthony will remember his devotion to his family wife, children, relatives, friends and people with whom he came into contact. Surviving are his wife Beth, his children Anthony Joseph "AJ" and Kristina, his parents Anthony Sr. and Phyllis of Toms River, his brother Thomas and his wife Kathleen of New Egypt, his sister Suzanne and her husband Pete of Howell, mother-in-law Joan Schwendel of Jefferson Township, brother-in-law Paul Schwendel and his wife Gina, sister-in-law Tracy Ames and her husband David along with many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held Thursday, August 5th from 2-4 and 7-9 PM and Friday, August 6th from 9:00 AM until the Funeral Service beginning at 10:30 AM at Carmona-Bolen Home For Funerals, 412 Main Street, Toms River, NJ 08753. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers contributions to AJ's and Kristina's college fund are appreciated.

Frank Lennox Hebberd I (1868-1931) obituary

2010-07-23T22:23:00.002-04:00

Hebberd - Formerly of Woodcliff-on-Hudson, N.J., at Union City, N. J., on Tuesday, October 27, 1931, Frank Lennox Hebberd, Sr., aged 65 years, husband of the late Letita (nee Arnold), and devoted father of Mrs. Grover Lindauer, Gilbert A., Frank L. Jr., Harvey and Royal Hebbert. ...

Source:

New York Times; October 29, 1931, Thursday

Why does yahoo IM still limit me to 1,000 entries in my Yahoo Instant Messenger

2010-07-16T13:48:00.003-04:00

Why does yahoo IM still limit me to 1,000 entries in my Yahoo Instant Messenger? In this day and age when I can buy a terabyte hard drive for about $80, and GMail offers me 6 gigabytes of email storage. Why is Yahoo still being so stingy? MySpace was the leader in social networking and never changed while competitors innovated. Anyone remember MySpace?

Maria Elizabeth Winblad interview from August 1986 by Susan Penny Van Deusen at the Lutheran Home in Jersey City, New Jersey

2010-07-07T01:12:00.003-04:00

Maria Elizabeth Winblad interview from August 1986 by Susan Penny Van Deusen at the Lutheran Home in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Penny: We thought of some questions to ask you.

Maria: Oh, you did?

Penny: Like, what year were you born in?

Maria: 1895. ... [volume too low] [unrelated conversation]

Penny: We brought a tape recorder so you can talk into it and we can listen when we get home.

Maria: Oh, well, I would say I wish you all have a nice day and a nice year in your home there, and enjoy yourself, where you can run all around in the grass with all your friends, yes, that's nice.

Penny: Christy wanted to know what your parents were like.

Maria: What they were like? Well, I will show you. Did I have the bible here? [she gets her bible] [ambient noise]

April: Hi, I am April

Penny: They wanted to know what was your mother’s name and your father’s name?

Maria: Well, my mother's name was Salmine, S-A-L-I-M-I-N-E, Salmine. See [shows name in bible bible], Selma gets her name from her. My mother did not like Salmine. ... That is a nice name, why didn't you call her Salmine ... That is the name you saw in the book, and my father's name was John, that is another John, only he was John Edward. John Edward, that was my father's name. That is another John.

Penny: How many children did they have?

Maria: Well, I think my mother had seven, but ... she raised three, three. Well, Eddie ... Eddie was only two years old. We went up the street one morning, my mother told me I could take him out. ... This little girl had whooping cough ... I guess I was eleven, was I eleven? ... They had things to drink there. Eddie and I came down with whooping cough, so the doctor said ...My brother the little fellow ... pneumonia and died. I was 4 and he was 2 ... Eddie went into pneumonia and he died. But the doctor said that there was no hope for the little girl. ... She never should have let her little girl have all those children there ... Eddie went into pneumonia and he died. Could I have a piece of bread? ... He was such a good little fellow. Daddy has the papers, that is where I will be buried., with him. Out in Greenville.

Penny: Is that in New Jersey?

Maria: New York Bay cemetery ... Daddy had paid ... that I have that grave there.

Penny: Were all of you born in the United States?

Maria: [misunderstands question] Christian ... My mother was only 2 years old when her mother died. So there he was left ... 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?

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: [volume too low] ... 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?

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]

Transfered to a digital format by Kevin Borland in 2009. Transcribed by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) in 2010.

Alfred Ingvald Naess (1877-1955) and Nadja Frank at a skating performance on Frognerkilen bay, Oslo, Norway circa 1900-1920

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Alfred Ingvald Naess (1877-1955) and Nadja Frank at a skating performance on Frognerkilen bay, Oslo, Norway circa 1900-1920.

Date: circa 1900

Source: Norsk Teknisk Museum

Photographer: Severin Worm-Petersen (1857-1933)

Big catch

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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:

Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954)

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

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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

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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

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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.

Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) biography

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Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) was a private in US Army who was killed in action during World War I in the Battle of Montfaucon of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. (b. August 4, 1894, 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA - d. October 16, 1918, Battle of Montfaucon, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Argonne, France, World War I) Military Service Number 1749623.

Parents:
Maximillian Freudenberg (1857-1921) and Eloise Lindauer (1860-1935).

Birth:
Louis was born on August 4, 1894 at 220 Madison Street in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey.

Siblings:
Max S. Freudenberg II (1881) who died as an infant; Ada Augusta Freudenberg (1885-1957) who married Ralph Kohlman (1885-1957) the printer; Charles Fredrick Freudenberg (1887-1942) who married Julia Mary Buttomer (1883-1973); Jenny Gertrude Freudenberg (1888) who died as an infant; Clara Freudenberg (1890-1959) who never married; Arthur Oscar Freudenberg I (1891-1968) a real estate broker who married Maria Elisabeth Winblad III (1895-1987); Max Freudenberg III (1893-aft1900) who lived till at least 7 years old and appears on the 1900 census; Harry Freudenberg (1895-1896) who died as an infant; Richard F. Freudenberg I (1896-1988) a chemical salesman who married Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963); Eloise Freudenberg (1898) who died as an infant; Eugene Freudenberg (1900-1956) aka Gene Freudenberg who was a freight handler that married Florence Catherine Skinner (1901-1986) and died of emphysema from smoking; Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) a typesetter for the New York Times who married Nora Belle Conklin (1905-1963) and after her death married Lottie Dombrowska (1916-1995); and Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) who married George Dewey Sanford I (1898-1965) who worked at a print shop.

Street and Smith Publishers (S&S):
In 1916 Louis was working for Street and Smith Publishers (S&S), in Manhattan, in the mail room, where his brother Arthur had previously worked. He left the company around October of 1916. Louis' best friend, Victor Julius Faller (1888-1973), worked at S&S with him, but Victor left for another job at Huntington Station on Long Island, New York.

Butler Brothers:
Louis was working as a clerk for Butler Brothers on Warren Street in Jersey City when he filled out his draft registration card on June 2, 1917. He was classified as "A1" on January 20, 1918. On February 12, 1918 he was ordered to appear before the draft board for a physical examination that was scheduled for February 20, 1918.

Killed in Action in World War I:
Louis was inducted into The US Army on April 04, 1918 and he trained at Camp Dix in New Jersey and went overseas on May 19, 1918. Louis was killed in action on October 16, 1918. He was shot in the leg during the battle of Montfaucon and while crawling to a first aid station a sniper shot him in the head. At the time of his death he was five feet and nine inches, and weighed 155 pounds.

Obituary:
The Hudson Observer, on Friday, November 22, 1918 wrote: "Heights Boy Died On French Battlefield. Private Louis J. Freudenberg reported killed in action October 16, was a member of company M, 309th U.S. Infantry. He entered the service April 4, last and went overseas May 19. He was twenty-four years old and was born in Hoboken but his family moved to 63 Concord Street, Jersey City twenty years ago. Private Freudenberg graduated from Public School Number 6, Jersey City and at the time he joined the colors he held a responsible position with Butler Brothers, Jersey City. The young hero is survived by his parents Max and Eloise Freudenberg; three sisters, Ada, Clara and Grace, and by four brothers, Arthur, Eugene, Ralph and Richard, the last name being in the service at Camp Meade, Maryland."

Burial and reburial:
He was buried on November 5, 1918 in Argonne, France. The body was disinterred on June 7, 1921 and re-interred at Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen on July 24, 1921. The notice for his re-interment says he was a corporal but all indications are that he was a private. The story of his re-interrment reads as follows: "Another of World War Martyrs, Corporal [sic] Louis Julius Freudenberg will be buried Sunday afternoon in Flower Hill Cemetery. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. at his late home, 22 Hopkins Avenue, Jersey City. Dr. Clark, of the Summit Avenue, M.E. Church and a delegation of Fisk Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will officiate. Corporal Freudenberg was 24 years old at the time of his death. He was a runner in Company M, of the 309th Infantry, 78th Division. He was wounded in the right leg at the battle of Montfaucon, October 16, 1918 and while making his way back to the first aid station was shot through the head by a German sniper. Young Freudenberg was born in Hoboken and attended No. 3 School of that city and No. 8 School of Jersey City. He was inducted April 4, 1918 and trained at Camp Dix, leaving for France in May with his unit. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Eloise Freudenberg, five brothers, Charles, Arthur, Richard, formerly of the 32nd Field Artillery, 11th Division; Ralph and Eugene and three sisters, Ada, Clara and Grace."

Insurance:
His war risk insurance was for $10,000 and was paid out at $57.50 per month as of April 10, 1918.

Archive:
Louis was listed in "Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 2" and he has a file at the New Jersey State Archive in Trenton which contains a copy of the photograph that was submitted for the publication of his death announcement. That file has now been supplemented with additional photographs and copies of his death announcement. Copies of his Army Death File and related family papers were sent to the Army History Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for archiving. In 2002 a new tombstone was ordered from the Veterans Administration to replace his fallen and unreadable one.

Tombstone:
A new tombstone was delivered in September 2004, and it was installed in 2007-2008 by the cemetery.

Relationship:
Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1894-1918) was the granduncle of Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ).

Updates:
Updated on Veterans Day, November 11, 2009 by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) with information to distinguish "Battle of Montfaucon" from the "Meuse-Argonne Offensive".

Source:
Researched and written by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) for Findagrave starting on June 6, 2003.

Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970) and Norman Edward Winblad (1911-1980) on the Isle of Pines in Cuba circa 1913-1914

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From left to right are: Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970) and Norman Edward Winblad (1911-1980) on the Isle of Pines in Cuba circa 1913-1914. Image from the Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) collection of the Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive.

LeBaron Hart Lindauer (1879-1945) birth certificate

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LeBaron Hart Lindauer (1879-1945) birth certificate

Name: LeBaron Hart Lindauer (1879-1945)
Date of Birth: August 14, 1879
Place of Birth: 245 East 20th Street, Manhattan, New York, USA
Father: Charles Frederick Lindauer (1835-1921)
Mother: Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931)
Medical Attendant: H. LeBaron Harte
Certificate Number: 264419
Birth Order: 8th

William Nathan McDowell (1882-1966) and Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) in Winterton, New York on December 26, 1926 with Bill's circa 1924 Ford Model T

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William Nathan McDowell (1882-1966) and Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) in Winterton, New York on December 26, 1926 with Bill's circa 1924 Ford Model T. Image from the Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963) collection in the Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive.

Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) and Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) marriage on October 26, 1935

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Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) and Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) marriage on October 26, 1935, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 195 Claremont Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey.

Person: Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998)
Person: Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993)
Date: October 26, 1935
Place: Trinity Lutheran Church, 195 Claremont Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey

Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Richard Charles Freudenberg II (1932- ) on January 21, 1933 in Port Orange, Orange County, New York

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Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Richard Charles Freudenberg II (1932- ) on January 21, 1933 in Port Orange, Orange County, New York. Image from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963).

Jane E. Hogan (1864-1949) and Catherine Mary Hogan (1864-1941) circa 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey

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Jane E. Hogan (1864-1949) and Catherine Mary Hogan (1864-1941) circa 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey. From left to right: Jane E. Hogan (1864-1949) who married Martin Matthew Gelchion I (1858-1899) aka Martin Gelchion; and her sister, Catherine Mary Hogan (1864-1941) aka Mary Hogan, who married Thomas Morrissey I (1863-1928). Image from the collection of Deirdre Anne Laura Kellar (1964- ).

Katherine Carr (1865-1951) and James Gerard Kennedy (1907-1997) circa 1940-1945

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From left to right are: James Gerard Kennedy (1907-1997); Eileen O'Malley (1919-1996) who married George Jay Gould III (1918-1985); possibly Estelle O'Malley who married Nelson Montfort; Kathyrn O'Malley (1898-1985) who never married and was a lawyer; and Katherine Carr (1865-1951) aka Kitty Carr, circa 1940-1945. Image from the collection of Ann Elizabeth O'Malley (1933- ).

Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) and Katherine Carr (1865-1951) Kennedy circa 1945

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From left to right are: Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) aka Mae Kennedy; Cornelia Vanderlinde; Katherine Carr (1865-1951) aka Kitty Carr; and Hendrik Vanderlinde circa 1945. Photograph from the collection of James Vanderlinde (1939- ).

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) and Inga Karoline Pedersen (1882-1927) in the 1920 US census

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1920 US census for New Jersey

2728 Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey

Household:

Emil Schneider, head, age 32, born in Germany, emigrated from Germany in 1901, merchant in delicatessen
Inga Schneider, wife, age 32, born in Norway, emigrated from Norway in 1901
Edward Schneider, son, age 8, born in New York
Alice Schneider, daughter, age 6, born in New York
Clara Schultz, niece, age 24, emigrated from Norway in 1910, clerk in store
Lena Aadnessen, cousin, age 38, emigrated from Norway in 1916, cook in store

Household interpreted:

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955)
Inga Karoline Pedersen (1882-1927)
Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940)
Alice Violetta Schneider (1913-2002)
Klara Helene Schultz (1895-1973)
Lena Aadnessen (1882-?) aka Lena Andreassen (1882-?)

Katherine Carr (1865-1951) birth certificate from Hollygrove, Ireland

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Katherine Carr (1865-1951) birth certificate from Hollygrove, Ireland

Date of Birth: January 18, 1865
Date of Baptism: February 12, 1865
Place of Birth: Hollygrove, Athleague, Killeroran, Mountbellow, Galway, Ireland
Father: Thomas Carr
Mother: Bridget Conboy
Source: Ireland Vital Records Office

How sad Wikipedia has become

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How sad Wikipedia and Wiki Commons have become. I was reading why the Library of Congress and other large image archives partnered with Flickr Commons instead of Wikimedia Commons, and ended up having all the bad things described in the article. Someone nominated every image I loaded into Wiki Commons in retaliation for opposing them in a debate for an article that was up for deletion.

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Standing from left to right are: possibly Josephine Smith (1875-1962) who was the wife of John Joseph Burke I (1868-1939); Mary (Mamie) Ellen Burke (1870-1957); and John Joseph Burke I (1868-1939). Sitting from left to right are: Mary (May) Margaret Burke (1890-1949) who was the wife of Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) and daughter of John Joseph Burke; Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) who was the wife of Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905); and possibly Helen (Eenie) Marie Maher (1895-1974) or one of her siblings. The photograph is from around 1920 taken at the New Jersey shore.

Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) death certificate

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Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) death certificate

Katherine Carr (1865-1951) and Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) circa 1945 in New York City

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From left to right are: Katherine Carr (1865-1951); and Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) aka Mae Kennedy, circa 1945. Image from the collection of Ann Elizabeth O'Malley (1933- ).

James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) and Katherine Carr (1872-1951) in the 1920 census

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1920 US Census, New Jersey:

Enumeration District 1482, Sheet 35B, Line 58-63, Image 65/80
West 160th Street, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA

Household:

James J. Kennedy, head, age 50, immigrated 1888, naturalized 1891, plasterer, b. Ireland
Katherine Kennedy, wife, age 48, immigrated 1890, naturalized 1891, b. Ireland
Katherine Kennedy, daughter, age 22, telephone operator
Thomas Kennedy, son, age 19, automobile salesman
Joseph Kennedy, son, age 15, office work
James Kennedy, son, age 12, student

Household interpreted:

James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) husband of Katherine Carr, aka Kitty Carr
Katherine Carr (1872-1951) wife of James Kennedy
Kathryn Kennedy (1897-1974) child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr
Thomas Kennedy (1901-1972) Child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr
Joseph Edward Kennedy (1905-1983) child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr
James Gerard Kennedy II (1907-1997) child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr

Note: Daughter Mary Kennedy is married to Walter Hill and living apart from family

Source: US Census, New Jersey, 1920

Rankins and Gelchions in the 1910 US census

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1910 US Census, New Jersey:

New Jersey, Hudson County, Roll 890 Book 3, Page 90b
Enumeration District 141, Sheet 01B, Line 11-16, Image 2/27
64 Rose Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
April 15, 1910

Household:

George S. Rankin, head, age 42, shipping clerk, brass factory
Maggie Rankin, wife, age, 38, married 5 years, 2 children born with 2 living, immigrated 1872
Esther Rankin, daughter, age 17, wrapper, licorice factory
Mary Rankin, daughter, age 15, packer, licorice factory
Jane E. Gelchion, head, age 36, widowed, 8 children born with 5 living, immigrated 1876
Matthew Gelchion, son, age 23, railroad checker
Elizabeth Gelchion, daughter, age 20, shipping clerk, curtain factory
Winifred Gelchion, daughter, age 18, operator, curtain factory
Catherine Gelchion, daughter, age 16, operator, curtain factory
Jennie Gelchion, daughter, age 13

Household Interpreted:

George S.Rankin (1866-?) widower of Catherine Doyle and husband of Margaret X (1872-?)
Margaret Hogan (1872-?) second wife of George S. Rankin (1866-?)
Esther Rankin (1893-?) child of George Rankin and Catherine Doyle
Mary Rankin (1895-?) child of George Rankin and Catherine Doyle
Jane E. Hogan (1864-1949) widow of Martin Matthew Gelchion I (1858-1899)
Matthew Gelchion (1886-?) child of Martin Matthew Gelchion and Jane E. Hogan
Elizabeth Gelchion (1890-?) child of Martin Matthew Gelchion and Jane E. Hogan
Winifred Gelchion (1891-?) child of Martin Matthew Gelchion and Jane E. Hogan
Katherine (Kate) Gelchion (1892-?) child of Martin (Matthew) Matthew Gelchion and Jane E. Hogan
Jane (Jennie) Gelchion (1895-?) child of Martin (Matthew) Matthew Gelchion and Jane E. Hogan

Notes: George S. Rankin's son William will marry Catherine Agnes McLaughlin on June 24, 1926, Catherine McLaughlin is Jane E. Hogan's 1st cousin once removed. Catherine Agnes McLaughlin is descended from Margaret (Maggie) Agnes Conboy (1866-1951) and Jane E. Hogan is descended from Winifred Conboy (c1833-c1905). Winifred Conboy is the aunt of Margaret Agnes Conboy. The two families must have met by sharing the same house.

Transcription and Interpretation: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) March 13, 2003

Source: US Census, New Jersey, 1910

Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963) on September 25, 1932

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Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963) on September 25, 1932 in her husband's 1932 Chevrolet Confederate Series BA Deluxe Sedan at the farm of Ernestus Skinner (1875-1958) in Port Orange, New York.

Original caption:

"Charlotte Freudenberg by her hubby's car. Now I ask you, isn't she a wow. Net Skinner's farm."

Notes

The caption reads: "Charlotte Freudenberg by her hubby's car. Now I ask you, isn't she a wow. Net Skinner's farm." Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963). The car is a 1932 Chevrolet Confederate BA Deluxe Sedan

Source

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive

Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963)collection

James Gerard Kennedy I (1907-1997) birth certificate

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James Gerard Kennedy I (1907-1997) birth certificate

Clara Freudenberg (1889-1959) death certificate

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Clara Freudenberg (1889-1959) never married. (b. September 09, 1889, 89 Adam Street, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey 07030-2401, USA - d. November 02, 1959, Keansburg, Monmouth County, New Jersey, 07734, USA)

Birth:
Clara was the daughter of Maximillian Freudenberg (1857-1921) and Eloise Lindauer (1860-1935).

Siblings:
Max S. Freudenberg II (1881) who died as an infant; Ada Augusta Freudenberg (1885-1957) who married Ralph Kohlman (1885-1957) the printer; Charles Fredrick Freudenberg (1887-1942) who married Julia Mary Buttomer (1883-1973); Jenny Gertrude Freudenberg (1888) who died as an infant; Arthur Oscar Freudenberg I (1891-1968) a real estate broker who married Maria (Mae) Elisabeth Winblad III (1895-1987); Max Freudenberg III (1893-aft1900) who lived till at least 7 years old and appears on the 1900 census; Louis Julius Freudenberg (1894-1918) who was killed in action in the last battle of World War I; Harry Freudenberg (1895-1896) who died as an infant; Richard F. Freudenberg I (1896-1988) a chemical salesman who married Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963); Eloise Freudenberg (1898) who died as an infant; Eugene Freudenberg (1900-1956) aka Gene Freudenberg who was a freight handler that married Florence Catherine Skinner (1901-1986) and died of emphysema from smoking; Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) a typesetter for the New York Times who married Nora Belle Conklin (1905-1963) and after her death married Lottie Dombrowska (1916-1995); and Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) who married George Dewey Sanford I (1898-1965) who worked at a print shop.

Never Married:
Clara never married and she took care of her mother when the family lived in a 2-family house in Jersey City. Clara and her mother lived in the apartment under her brother: Richard F. Freudenberg (1896-1988).

Memories about Clara Freudenberg:
Selma Louise Freudenberg (1920- ) says: "she had a tragic love affair, then never married. She may have had some psychological problems. She went into a decline after losing her job and never recovered. Once Ralph Herman Freudenberg I (1931-1992) made a prank phone call to Clara by disguising his voice and asking her for a date. She got dressed up and of course no one showed up. Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987), the estranged wife of her brother, Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (1891-1968), took care of Clara for a while, but found her to be too sarcastic and she ended up living in her brother Arthur's house, in Keansburg."

Death:
She died in Keansburg, New Jersey of a heart attack.

Obituary:
Her obituary appeared in the Jersey Journal on Wednesday, November 04, 1959 and reads as follows: "Freudenberg - Clara, on November 2, 1959, of 136 Cottage Street, Jersey City; sister of Arthur, Richard, Ralph, and Mrs. Grace Sanford. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service at the Otto Mack Funeral Home, Central Avenue and Hutton Street, Jersey City, Thursday, November 5th at 2 p.m. Interment Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen."

Burial:
She was buried in the Freudenberg family plot in Flower Hill in North Bergen.

Relationship:
Clara Freudenberg (1889-1959) is the grandaunt of Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ).

Olene Andrea Pedersdatter (1819-1912) circa 1900 in Farsund, Norway

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Olene Andrea Pedersdatter (1819-1912) Housewife (b. November 10, 1819, Herad parish, Farsund, Vest-Agder, Norway - d. 1912, Dalen farm, Kvinesdal, Vest-Agder, Norway)

Source:

Original image from the collection of Terje Jostein Skjoldal

Flier says lawyer sent him to Spain

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Flier says lawyer sent him to Spain. Schneider names New Yorker as giving him ticket to join loyalist army. Promised $1,500 a month, but he was never paid, so he quit, witness declares - tells story to U.S. officials. Eddie Schneider, 25-year-old aviator, who recently returned to the United States after serving a month in the so-called Yankee Squadron with the Spanish Loyalists, said yesterday that a New York lawyer had negotiated with him for his services abroad. Schneider, who began his career as a flier in 1928, appeared at the Federal Building, where he was questioned by John F. Dailey Jr., Chief Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Dailey, who last Thursday questioned Bert Acosta and Gordon K. Berry, both of whom served in the same squadron, is conducting an investigation to determine if the service of the Yankee Squadron in Spain was a violation of a federal statute. That statute provides: 'Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, state colony, district or people as a soldier or as a marine, or seaman on board of any vessel of war, letter or marquee, or privateer, shall be fined not more than $1,000 and imprisoned not more than 4 years.' According to Schneider, the lawyer told him that he would be paid $1,500 a month for his services in the air force and would receive a bonus of $1,000 for every Rebel plane he shot down. The lawyer, he said, gave him his steamship ticket. Schneider, in an interview with newspapermen, said that he had quit Spain because the Loyalist Government had not carried out its obligations under a contract signed in Valencia. The only money he received, he said, came from the Spanish Embassy in Paris, which paid his fare back to the United States. Colonel Lewis Landes, attorney for Schneider, interrupted to say on behalf of his client that Schneider had really quit Spain because he wished to comply with President Roosevelt's neutrality program. Schneider said that Major Thomas Lamphier was still abroad flying for the Loyalists. He said that he himself had taken part in bombing raids daily for about three weeks. The bombers, he said were remodeled sport planes, and the bombs were dropped through floor openings.

Source: New York Times; January 16, 1937

Person: Eddie August Henry Schneider (1911-1940) was a record holding aviator who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and died in a plane crash in 1940. (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)

Josephine Veronica Burke (1907-1995) birthday on April 5, 1977

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From left to right are: Owen John Burke (1915-1984) aka Owney Burke; John Joseph Burke II (1909-1986); Josephine Veronica Burke (1907-1995) aka May Burke; and William Joseph Burke I (1904-1996) on April 5, 1977 for May's 70th birthday celebration. It is also possible that this was her 75th birthday in 1982. More information will be needed. This photograph is from her own collection.

Nortons in Colonia, New Jersey in 1960

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From left to right on couch: Stephen H. Prasky (1897-1965); Josephine (May) Veronica Burke (1907-1995) holding stuffed toy; Bertha Marie Burke (1902-1971) holding Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ); and Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968). Sitting on floor from left to right are: Thomas Patrick Norton III (1947- ); Kenneth Stephen Norton (1955- ); Katherine Mary Norton (1949- ); and Judith (Judy) Elizabeth Norton (1951- ). Photograph taken in 1960 in Colonia, New Jersey at the home of Vincent Girard Norton (1923- ). Color corrected version.

Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) baptismal certificate

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Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) baptismal certificate. he was baptized on February 28, 1891 at Saint Bridget's Church at 372 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. Matthew Norton and Ellen Hogan were the sponsors.

Winblads, Freudenbergs, and Schneider circa 1917-1918 most likely in Jersey City, New Jersey

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Winblads, Freudenbergs, and Schneider circa 1917-1918 most likely in Jersey City, New Jersey.

From left to right are: Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987); who is sitting in the lap of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980); Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (1891-1968) in the black tie; Sigrid Marie Andreassen (1905-1940); and Klara Helene Shultz (1895-1973). Sitting on the steps are: Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940); and his sister, Alice Violetta Schneider (1913-2002). On the right side of the picture are: Ada Augusta Freudenberg; Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998); Emil Schneider (1884-1955); and his wife Inga Petersen (1885-1928) circa 1917-1918 at an unknown home. There are two unknown women in chairs on the porch, one of them may be Sophia Pedersen, the sister of Inga, who had married a Schultz.

Source: Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) collection in the Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive

Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) death certificate.

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Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) death certificate.

Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) requesting to visit his uncle Andrew Cairns (1858-?) on December 16, 1918

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Ambulance Co. 31

Sanitary Train 303

December 16, 1918

From: Pvt. 1st class Thomas Norton

To: Commanding General 78th Division (Thru Channels)

Subject: Leave of Absence.

1. Request permission to visit my Uncle, Mr. Andrew Cairns, 24 Rue Flat, Boulogne Sur Mer, this provision to be for the period of seven days.

2. My Uncle is 60 years of age and this would probably be my last opportunity to see him.

3. I enlisted June 13, 1917 and have served with the American Expeditionary Forces since June 11, 1918.

Thomas Norton (signed)

Notes:

Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) requesting to visit his uncle Andrew Cairns (1858-?) on December 16, 1918. If Andrew Cairns was an uncle he would be a Norton or a Carr. His mother's siblings would all be named Carr. He wouldn't be an in-law since he didn't marry till he returned from the war.

Thomas Patrick Norton (1891-1968) and Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949) marriage certificate from September 27, 1919

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Thomas Patrick Norton (1891-1968) and Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949) marriage certificate from September 27, 1919. They were married at Saint John's Roman Catholic Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. The witnesses were Bertha Marie Burke (1902-1971) and James Joseph Norton I (1892-1961).

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) and Inga Petersen (1885-1928) circa 1915-1920

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Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) and Inga Petersen (1885-1928) circa 1915-1920. This is the only known image of them, but others ma exist in other family collections. Image from the Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive from the Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) collection. This image is cropped from a larger image.

Fourth of July picnic circa 1920-1930 in the Bronx, New York

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A 4th of July picnic, circa 1920-1930.

Caption: "do you know these taken last 4th of July".

Date: circa 1930

Source: Image from the collection of Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987)

From top of photograph clockwise are: Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) holding food to his mouth; Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939); unknown; Theodore Roosevelt Lattin (1901-1980); unknown with back to camera; unknown; unknown; and unknown.