Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) in the 1900 census

Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) in the 1900 census

Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) in the 1880 census

Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) in the 1880 census

Kennedy's and Carrs in Saint Raymond's Cemetery

Burial:

• Purchase: James Kennedy, November 24, 1926
• Graves: 43, 44, 45, 46, Range 18, Section 1, Saint Raymond's Cemetery, 2600 Lafayette Avenue, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, 10451, USA

Grave 43:

• Michael Carr, re-interred on November 24, 1906
  
• Sara Kennedy, re-interred on November 24, 1906, 1 year, 3 months old
• James Kennedy, November 24, 1906, 1 year, 4 days old
• Katherine Kennedy, age 86, February 22, 1951

Grave 44:

• James Kennedy, age 61, Buried December 16, 1926; Place of Death: 43 Street and Lexington Avenue, Carditis
  

Grave 45:

• Antoinette Kennedy, September 26, 1942

Interpretation:

• Michael Carr (1880-1906) brother of Katherine Carr
• Sara Kennedy (c1894) child of Katherine and James
• James Gerard Kennedy I (1906) child of Katherine and James
  
• James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) husband of Katherine Carr
  
• Antoinette Granato (1916-1942) wife of James Gerard Kennedy I (1907-1997)
• Katherine Carr (1865-1951) wife of James Joseph Kennedy

Note: He bought plot three weeks before he died.
Note: Grave 45 and 46 are empty, grave 43 is full and grave 44 can fit two more people.
Note: $650 per grave is owed for care.
Note: Nearest kin to owner is entitled to be buried here.

Source: Fred Henning, October 17, 2002
Source: Saint Raymond's Cemetery, Thursday, October 17, 2002

Hemwalls of Chicago, Illnois circa 1916

Top row from left to right are: Lars Hemwall (1879-1965) aka Lars Hansson who married Josephine M. Nilsson (1893-1975); Alfred Hemwall (1872-1954) aka Alfred Hansson who married Ellen Ingeborg Johnson (1871-1948); and Emil Hemwall (1888-1965) aka Emil Hansson who married Amelie Blekinge Linquist (1893-1976). Middle row from left to right are: John Hemwall (1873-1946) aka Johan Hansson who married Ebba C. Lawson (1874-1956); Anders Hemwall I (1877-1956) aka Anders Hansson who married Sigrid S. Lawson (1877-?); George Hemwall (1881-1950) aka Goran Hansson who married Maria X (c1885-?); Nels Hemwall (1875-1965) aka Nils Hansson who married Ida Anderson (c1875-1939) and after her death married Mary (Marie) Marie Jensen (1883-1969). Bottom row from left to right are: Margaret Hemwall (1891-1983) aka Margaret Hansdatter who married Carl P. Rose (c1890-?); Hans Andersson Hemwall (1843-1921) aka Hans Andersson, the father; and Anna Hemwall (1886-1956) aka Anna Hansdatter who married Otto Wilner (c1885-1963). Image circa 1916.

Source: Image from the collection of John (Jack) Burnett Hemwall (1930- ).

Sigrid S. Lawson (1877-1957) funeral notice

Sigrid S. Lawson (1877-1957) funeral notice

Marriage:
Anders Hemwall I (1887-1956), a tailor.

Children:
Anders Hemwall II (1904) who died as an infant; Ruth Elizabeth Hemwall (1905-1993) who married Charles Peter Tiedje I (1912-1980); Gustav A. Hemwall (1908-1998); and Helen Edith Hemwall (1913-1997) who never married.

Source: Chicago Tribune; May 18, 1957

Mabel Olson (1890-1971) and Harry Garrett Clay (1913-1965) circa 1918

Mabel Olson (1890-1971) and Harry Garrett Clay (1913-1965) circa 1918.

Source: Photograph from the collection of Dorothy Lozinski (1920- ).

Jesse Garrett Clay (1888-1976) in November 1966

Jesse Garrett Clay (1888-1976) in November 1966.

Person: Jesse Garrett Clay (1888-1976) US Mail Clerk on Central Illinois Railroad (b. February 02, 1888; Illinois, USA - d. February 1976; Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA) Social Security Number 343381805.

Source: Photograph from the collection of Dorothy Lozinski (1920- ).

Leopold Barca (1887-1924) death certificate

Person: Leopold Barca (1887-1924) Whittler in Hat Factory (b. December 13, 1887, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA - d. September 16, 1924, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA)

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) birth certificate

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) birth certificate

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) marriage certificate

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) marriage certificate

Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1924

From left to right are: Ada Augusta Freudenberg (1885-1957); Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981); George Dewey Sanford I (1898-1965); Louis Julius Freudenberg II (1922-1986) in the lap of Florence Catherine Skinner (1901-1986); Eugene Freudenberg (1900-1956); and Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1924. Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963).

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) in 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Grace May Freudenberg (1904-1981) in 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980).

Selma Louise Freudenberg (1921- ) and Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) in 1933

In back row from left to right are: Selma Louise Freudenberg (1921- ) and Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998). In front row from left to right are: Helen Eloise Freudenberg (1928-1989) and Geraldine Marie Winblad (1928- ). The photograph was taken on Claremont Avenue in Jersey City in 1933. Photograph from the collection of Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998).

Baptism of Peder Severin Andreassen (1903-c1935) in 1903 in Austad, Vest-Agder, Norway

Baptism of Peder Severin Andreassen (1903-c1935) in 1903 in Austad, Vest-Agder, Norway.

1910 US Census with Winblads in Jersey City

1910 US Census, New Jersey

• New Jersey, Hudson County, Roll 892, Book 1, Page 80
• Enumeration District 175, Sheet 07A, Line 31-34, Image 13/25
• 437 Wayne Street, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
• April 23, 1910

Household

• John Winblad, head, age 54, married 27 years, longshoreman, born in Sweden, emigration 1874 [sic], naturalized, 7 children, 3 living
• Salmina Winblad, wife, age 48, b. Norway
• Maria Winblad, Maria, age 15; b. New York
• Otto Winblad, age 7, b. New Jersey

Household Explained

• John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914)
• Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914)
• Maria Elizabeth Winblad II (1895-1987)
• Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977)

Note: Emigration 1874 must be a typo for 1884. They were married in 1883 and Anton was born in the USA in 1885. In 1874 Johan was at sea and Salmine was in Norway. Anton was living on his own in 1910 and doesn't appear here.

1900 US Census with James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) and Katherine Carr (1872-1951)

1900 US Census with James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) and Katherine Carr (1872-1951)

1900 US Census, New York:

• Enumeration District 0613, Sheet 16B, Line 68-70, Image 32/38
• 8th Street, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, USA

Household:

• James J. Kennedy, head, b. July 1866, Ireland, Immigration 1885, Plasterer
• Kate Kennedy, wife, b. January 1869, Ireland
• Mary Kennedy, daughter, July 1896, New York
• Kate Kennedy, daughter, b. August 1897, New York

Household Interpreted:

• James Joseph Kennedy (1870-1926) husband of Katherine Carr
• Katherine Carr (1872-1951) wife of James Kennedy
• Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr
• Kathryn Kennedy (1897-1974) child of James Kennedy and Katherine Carr

Source: US Census, New Jersey, 1900

Lindauers and Freudenbergs in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

• Louise Lindauer (1858-1859)
• Rebecca Lindauer (1863-1864)
• Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866)
• Max S. Freudenberg II (1881) child of Max Freudenberg and Eloise Lindauer
• Gusia Lindauer (1884-1885)
• Nellie X (1853-1887) wife of John Jacob Lindauer
• John Jacob Lindauer (1841-1888) son of Oscar Lindauer and Sophia Weber
• Mary Sheehan (1842-1888) wife of Louis Julius Lindauer
• Jenny Gertrude Freudenberg (1888) child of Max Freudenberg and Eloise Lindauer
• William Arthur Ensko II (1850-1889) child of Eloise Lindauer and William Ensko
• Sophia Weber (1815-1891) wife of Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer
• Lottie Lindauer (1869-1894) aka Lottie Landus, daughter of Caroline Ritter and "Charles Lindauer"
• Stanley Malton Massey (1895-1902) son of Grace Lindauer and Max Massey
• Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) son of Oscar Lindauer and Sophia Weber

Source: Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Note: Freudenbergs are listed on a separate sheet

1895 New Jersey Census with Catherine Creedon (1835-1914) and Catherine Elizabeth Finn (1873-1918)

1895 New Jersey Census with Catherine Creedon (1835-1914) and Catherine Elizabeth Finn (1873-1918) in Jersey City, New Jersey, Catherine Creedon was the widow of Daniel Finn (1818-1887).

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) on August 05, 2007

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) on August 05, 2007

1895 New Jersey Census with the Nortons in Jersey City

1895 New Jersey Census with Patrick J. Norton and Sarah Jane Carr in Jersey City, New Jersey

1895 New Jersey Census with the Freudenbergs in Hoboken

1895 New Jersey Census, New Jersey

• Hoboken, New Jersey
  

Household:

• Max Freudenberg
  
• Eloise Freudenberg
• Addie Freudenberg
• Chas Freudenberg
• Clara Freudenberg
• Arthur Freudenberg
• Max Freudenberg, Jr.
• Louis Freudenberg

Household Explained:

• Maximillian S. Freudenberg (1857-1921)
• Eloise Lindauer (1860-1935)
• Ada Augusta Freudenberg (1885-1957)
• Charles Freudenberg (1886-1942)
• Clara Freudenberg (1890-1959)
• Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (1891-1968)
• Max Freudenberg III (1893-aft1900)
• Louis Julius Freudenberg I (1895-1918)

Note: Incorrectly indexed as "Fredinbry"
Source: New Jersey Census, 1895

Mathilde Sophie Amalia Pedersen (1872-1949) , Sigrid Marie Andreassen (1905-1940) and Peder Severin Andreassen (1903-c1935) arriving in New York

Mathilde Sophie Amalia Pedersen (1872-1949) , Sigrid Marie Andreassen (1905-1940) and Peder Severin Andreassen (1903-c1935) arriving in New York from Norway on March 24, 1915

Sigrid Marie Andreassen (1905-1940) and Ralph Christian Andreas Tandberg (1901-1995) in the 1930 US Census in Jersey City, New Jersey

Sigrid Marie Andreassen (1905-1940) and Ralph Christian Andreas Tandberg (1901-1995) in the 1930 US Census in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Louis Julius Freudenberg (1894-1918) circa 1915 wearing his Red Cross lapel button

Louis Julius Freudenberg (1894-1918) circa 1915 wearing his Red Cross lapel button.

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

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) circa 1970

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) circa 1970. The image was taken for the Lutheran Church in Paramus for their church yearbook.

Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963) and Richard F. Freudenberg (1896-1988) circa 1941-1945

Charlotte C. Kahrar (1897-1963) and Richard F. Freudenberg (1896-1988) circa 1941-1945.

Source: Richard Charles Freudenberg II (1918-1994)

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1852-1941) in the Brooklyn Eagle, Wednesday, June 29, 1898

Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1852-1941) in the Brooklyn Eagle, Wednesday, June 29, 1898.

James Gerard Kennedy II (1907-1997) birth certificate

James Gerard Kennedy II (1907-1997) birth certificate.

Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ) in Jersey City, New Jersey in the Summer of 1943 while on leave from the Navy

Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ) in Jersey City, New Jersey in the Summer of 1943 while on leave from the Navy.

Source: Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993) collection

Winifred Skinner (1899-1993) circa 1915-1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Winifred Skinner (1899-1993) circa 1915-1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Notes:
The photograph was taken at a studio on 299 Central Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photograph from the collection of Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963).

Source:

• Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) archive
• Ralph Freudenberg (1903-1980) and Nora Belle Conklin (1902-1963) collection

Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) in the 1850 US Census

Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) in the 1850 US Census

• Abraham Kashaw (1815-?)
  
• Sarah Olderen (1816-?)
  
• Mary Kershaw (1837-?)
• Israel Kershaw (1840-?)
• Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931) who married Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1835-1921)
• Sarah Kershaw (1843-?)
• Ann Kershaw II (1847-?)
• Peter Kershaw (1849-?)

One of the many Patrick Nortons arriving from Ireland to Boston

One of the many Patrick Nortons arriving from Ireland to Boston. This one arrived on May 29, 1886. It most likely not Patrick J. Norton (1856-1905) who is though to have arrived in 1880. He used the 1880 date in the 1900 US Census.

Name: Patrick Norton
Arrival Date: May 29, 1886
Age: 33 Years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Gender: Male
Ethnic Background: Irish
Port of Departure: Queenstown, Ireland and Liverpool, England
Ship Name: Cephalonia
Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts
Microfilm Roll Number: M277_101

John O'Malley (1825-?) and Margaret Collins (1830-?) with their son, Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) in the 1870 US Census in Brooklyn, New York

John O'Malley (1825-?) and Margaret Collins (1830-?) with their son, Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) in the 1870 US Census in Brooklyn, New York

Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1854-1940) in the 1880 US Census in the Bronx, New York

Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1854-1940) in the 1880 US Census in the Bronx, New York

Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1854-1940) in the 1900 US Census in the Bronx, New York

Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1854-1940) in the 1900 US Census in the Bronx, New York

• Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) , husband
  
• Georgiana Reynolds (1854-1940), wife
• Frank O'Malley (1876-c1961) banker
• Grace O'Malley (1881-?) died as youth
• Edwin O'Malley (1883-1955) Commissioner of Public Markets, father of Walter O'Malley (1903-1979)
• Leonard O'Malley (1888-1966) real estate, his daughter married George Jay Gould III (1918-1985)
• Arthur O'Malley (1889-1971) construction supervisor
• Agnes O'Malley (1891-1980)
• Joseph O'Malley (1893-1985) editor and publisher of Contractors Register
• Estelle O'Malley (1895-1953)
• Warren O'Malley (1897-c1955) never married
• Kathyrn O'Malley (1898-1985) lawyer, never married, cemated

Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) and Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970) returning from Cuba on July 7, 1915

Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) and Anthony LeRoy Winblad (1912-1970) returning from Cuba on July 7, 1915

• Name: Anthony Winblad
• Arrival Date: July 7, 1915
• Estimated Birth Year: 1892
• Age: 2
• Gender: Male
• Port of Departure: Havana, Cuba
• Ship Name: Havana
• Port of Arrival: New York, New York
• Line: 8
• Microfilm Serial: T715
• Microfilm Roll: T715_2420
• Page Number: 173

Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) returning from California on November 26, 1934

Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) returning from California on November 26, 1934

Name: Eva Winblad
Arrival Date: November 26, 1934
Estimated Birth Year: 1892
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: San Francisco & Los Angeles
Ship Name: Pennsylvania
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Birth Location Other: Farmingdale

Note: Fredrick Andrew Williams (1923- ) writes about the family moving to California: "The first of our family to California were my father and mother: Charles Haley Williams (1884-1960); and Myrtle Adelia Lattin (1884-1970) and my grand-dad Fredrick Howard Williams. They went to California as speculators in 1921 and my father bought a farm there. Fredrick Howard Williams, bought a piece of land in Burbank, California where he grew walnuts. Eva Ariel Lattin came to California, by ship, to visit in 1933 on the Panama Pacific Line. I was 10 years old at that time. She was on a cruise and stopped to see my parents. She went back to New York and then the whole [Winblad] family moved to California around 1936. Eva and Anton Winblad lived on 419 West 77th Street, Los Angeles, California. Later they moved out in the desert near a city called 29 Palms. Norman, his son, settled in Baldwin Park. Eva died in 1939. Anton Winblad was a plumber, and Earl Winblad was a boilermaker. Both worked in the shipyards in Long Beach, California. Earl bought a home in Carson, California and he and June Salisbury have been there ever since. Earl was in the Army, and I served in WWII. The Winblads and Lattins failed on their farms in Cuba because of the lack of refrigeration in shipping their produce to the US. Fredrick Howard Williams decided to grow walnuts because they didn't need to be refrigerated."

John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) returning from the United Kingdom on March 31, 1884

John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) returning from the United Kingdom on March 31, 1884

Name: John E. Winblad
Arrival Date: March 31, 1884
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: United States of America
Nationality: American
Ship Name: Arizona

Note: He is the right age, but he listed himself as a "miner" on this manifest and he wasn't a US Citizen until 1889. There were no other John E. Winblads in the United States, so this appears to be our John Winblad.

Lena Elaine Olson (1860-1938) returning from Norway on September 30, 1914

Lena Elaine Olson (1860-1938) and Alvin Jensen (1900-1986) returning from Norway on September 30, 1914

• Name: Lina Jensen, aka Lena Jensen
• Ethnicity: U.S.A.
• Last Place of Residence: Chicago, Illinois
• Date of Arrival: September 30, 1914
• Age at Arrival: 54y
• Gender: Female
  
• Marital Status: Single [sic]
• Ship of Travel: United States
• Port of Departure: Christiansand
• Manifest Line Number: 0012

Note: Her father died on August 24, 1914. Attending the funeral in Norway were: Salmine Sophia Pedersen with her husband, John Edward Winblad, and their son Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977); and Lena Olson with her son Alvin Jensen. On this same trip John Edward Winblad, Salmine's husband died on September 24, 1914 in Farsund, and Salmine died December 18, 1914, also in Farsund. Mary Virgilious Geary (1918- ) confirmed that Lena visited Norway with her son Alvin and the ship manifest shows they returned from Christiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway to Chicago via New York on September 30, 1914, just 6 days after John Winblad died. Lena is listed as "Lina Jensen" on the ship manifest. Otto Winblad (1902-1977) stayed in Farsund until July 06, 1915 and was met in New York by his brother Anton Julius Winblad (1886-1975) who was returning to New York from Cuba to pick him up.

Source: EllisIslandRecords.org

Lena Elaine Olson (1860-1938) returning from Norway on June 20, 1922

Lena Elaine Olson (1860-1938) returning from Norway on June 20, 1922

• Name: Lena Jensen
  
• Last Place of Residence: Chicago, Illinois
• Date of Arrival: June 20, 1922
• Age at Arrival: 62y
  
• Gender: Female
  
• Marital Status: Married
  
• Ship of Travel: Stavangerfjord
• Port of Departure: Christiania, Norway
• Manifest Line Number: 0013

Source: EllisIslandRecords.org

Catherine Marie Harney (1878-1966) returning from Ireland on September 05, 1923.

Catherine Marie Harney (1878-1966) returning from Ireland on September 05, 1923.

• Name: Catherine Lindauer
  
• Last Place of Residence: Rye, New York
• Date of Arrival: September 05, 1923
• Age at Arrival: 45y
  
• Gender: Female
  
• Marital Status: Married
• Ship of Travel: President Adams
• Port of Departure: COBH Queenstown
• Manifest Line Number: 0003

She had applied for and received a passport for this trip.

Source:EllisIslandRecords.org

Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977) returning from Norway on July 06, 1915

Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977) returning from Norway on July 06, 1915

• Name: Otto Winblad
  
• Ethnicity: USA
  
• Last Place of Residence: Jersey City, New Jersey
  
• Date of Arrival: July 06, 1915
  
• Age at Arrival: 11y
  
• Gender: Male
  
• Marital Status: Single
  
• Ship of Travel: United States
  
• Port of Departure: Christiansand, Norway
  
• Manifest Line Number: 0001

Otto is returning from Norway after the death of his parents. His brother Anton returned from Cuba to meet Otto in New York.

Source: ellisislandrecords.org

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) and Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977) returning from Cuba in 1912

Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) and Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977) returning from Cuba in March 26, 1912

• Name of Ship: S.S. Havana
• Port of Departure: Havana, Cuba
• Port of Arrival: New York City, New York, USA
• Date of Arrival: March 26, 1912

Passengers

• Maria Elizabeth Winblad II (1895-1987)
• Otto Perry Winblad (1902-1977)

Source: EllisIslandRecords.org

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940)

Eddie August Henry Schneider (October 20, 1911 - December 23, 1940)

He set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His plane was a Cessna with a Warner-Scarab engine, named "The Kangaroo". He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the combined round trip record. He was the youngest certificated pilot in the United States, and the youngest certified airplane mechanic. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron. He died in an airplane crash in 1940 while training a new pilot, when a bomber clipped his plane's tail at Floyd Bennett Field.

Birth and family:
Eddie Schneider was born in 1911 at 2nd Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan in New York. His father was Emil August Schneider (1886-1955), a banker and stock broker, born in Bielefeld, Germany. His mother was Inga Karoline Eldora Pedersen (1882-1927), who was born in Farsund, Norway. [12] Eddie had one full sibling: Alice Violetta Schneider (1913-2002) who married John Harms (1905-1985).

Early years:
The family moved from Manhattan to Red Bank, New Jersey, and then they moved to Jersey City, New Jersey by 1920. Eddie attended William L. Dickinson High School and dropped out of school in 1926, at age 15 to go to work as a plane mechanic at Roosevelt Field in Hempstead, Long Island. In 1927 his mother died, then, Eddie and his parents visited Bielefeld, Germany and Farsund, Norway to visit with relatives. In Germany Eddie went on a plane ride and then aviation became his obsession. In 1929 he trained at Roosevelt Field on Long Island and became the youngest person in the United States to receive a commercial pilot certificate. That same year he also received a mechanics certificate, becoming the youngest certificated airplane mechanic in New York. In April 1930 Eddie was living in Hempstead, Long Island with a German friend named Carl Schneider (1898-?). Carl was not related to him, and was also working as a mechanic. Eddie flew a red Cessna monoplane with tail number C9092.

Transcontinental air speed record:
Eddie reported that he intended to fly to the Pacific coast and back in August 1930. On August 25, 1930 he set the round-trip transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one years in his Cessna using a Warner Scarab engine. He flew from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930 to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes. He then made the return trip from Los Angeles to Roosevelt Airfield in New York in 27 hours and 19 minutes, lowering the West to East record by 1 hour and 36 minutes. His total elapsed time for the round trip was 57 hours and 14 minutes, breaking the preceding record for the round trip. Frank H. Goldsborough held the previous record which was 62 hours and 58 minutes. When Eddie landed in New York on August 25, 1930, his first words were to his father: "Hello Pop, I made it." He was carrying leters from the Mayor John Clinton Porter of Los Angeles, to Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City.

National Air Tours:
After setting the transcontinental speed record he entered in the 1930 Ford National Reliability Air Tour in Chicago, which ran from August 23, 1930 to September 1, 1930. He won the Great Lakes Trophy. Nancy Hopkins also flew in the tour that year.

In 1931 Eddie participated in, what was the last Ford National Reliability Air Tour, in his Cessna. A defect in his engine forced a landing while flying over a mountainous section of Kentucky. He made a forced landing in a corn patch on the side of the mountain. A new engine was sent to him and after a difficult takeoff, he went on to win first place for single engine aircraft, and finished third overall.

Time (magazine) wrote:
"Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes."

During one of the National Air Tours, Schneider had taken off in his Cessna with the Warner Scarab engine, from Chicago bound for the balloon races in Cleveland. He saw the crowd scatter below, looked up and saw the 40 foot left wing of a twenty passenger Burnelli transport plane directly over him. Passengers in the Burnelli scrambled to the other side of the cabin to tilt the the wing back up. Schneider sent his plane diving just as the Burnelli's wing scraped his planes wing. A crash was averted by his dip. The officials said his quick action in dipping his plane close to the ground and then pulling clear of the grandstand had probably averted the most serious accident in the races.

Marriage:
In 1932 he went to work for the Hoover Air League, and married Gretchen Frances Hahnen (1902-1986) in New York City on June 2, 1934 at the New York Municipal Building in Manhattan. Gretchen was the daughter of Zora Montgomery Courtney (1882-1962) and was originally from Peoria, Illinois. Her father was Herme Francis Hahnen from Des Moines, Iowa. She was a member the Jersey City Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA) and was director of the Aviation Club of The Jersey Journal, and the editor of the Junior Club Magazine. Eddie met her at an aviation function. They did not have any children.

Jersey City Airport:
Starting on January 1, 1935 Eddie leased the Jersey City Airport and ran his flying school from there until the field was converted into a sports stadium using WPA money. Eddie was taking off in a Travelair three-seat, open-cockpit biplane with his student, Fred Weigel (1904-1990), when the motor died. From an altitude of 100 feet they crashed into Newark Bay, but were unhurt and were able to walk ashore. He also taught Herbert Sargent to fly with just 55 minutes in lessons.

Spanish Civil War:
"I was broke, hungry, jobless ... yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry, we were left out in the cold in the Administration's program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?"

In 1936, Eddie left for Spain to fly in the Yankee Squadron for the Spanish Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He was recruited by a lawyer in New York City. Time (magazine) wrote on December 21, 1936:

"Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U.S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down. ..."

He was living at 50 Jones Street in Jersey City at the time. He was promised he would be paid $1,500 each month and given a bonus of $1,000 for every rebel plane he shot down. He claimed he was never paid in full, and he returned to the US in January 1937. Spain claimed that they were paid in full, and were not owed any money. Others who flew for the loyalists included: Bert Acosta, Gordon Berry, and Frederic Ives Lord. When he returned he was questioned by Chief Assistant United States Attorney, John F. Dailey on January 15, 1937 in New York. Eddie's lawyer was Colonel Lewis Landes. On January 20, 1937, Eddie, Bert, and Gordon flew to Washington, D.C. and had to testify again. When talking to reporters Eddie said: "I was broke, hungry, jobless ... yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry, we were left out in the cold in the Administration's program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?" He later said "This was a mess ... 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 flyers had their passports confiscated, and they were to be returned when they attested that they had never forsworn allegiance to America.

Middle years:
In 1938 Eddie stood at 5 foot, 8 inches (68 inches) and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg). He had blue eyes and blond hair, and he was living at 38 Broadway in Manhattan. Eddie began work for American Airlines at Newark Airport in New Jersey, he then moved to Jackson Heights, Queens on Long Island, when the American Airlines eastern terminal had moved to LaGuardia Airport. Around June, he took a job as a civilian instructor teaching Civil Aeronautics Authority students to fly at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with the Archie Baxter Flying Service. Eddie registered for the draft on October 16, 1940 when he was living at 3250 73rd Street in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York.

Death:
On December 23, 1940, around 1:25 pm, Eddie was killed in an accident at Floyd Bennett Field at age 29, while training George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940). They were flying at about 600 feet, about to land, when Navy pilot Kenneth A. Kuehner, age 25, of Minister, Ohio struck the tail assembly of Eddie's Piper Cub. Eddie's plane went into a spin and crashed into Deep Creek, just off of Flatbush Avenue. Both Herzog and Schneider were dead at the scene of impact. The bodies were taken to King's County Hospital, and Eddie's cause of death was listed as "crushed chest & abdomen; hemothorax & hemoperitoneum in aeroplane crash". The accident was investigated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and Kuehner was ruled at fault for flying too low and failing to observe the traffic in front of him. The air traffic controllers were also chastised. Eddie was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey. Bert Acosta attended the funeral.

Widow:
On February 13, 1942 Gretchen appealed to Congress for financial relief with HR 5290 Gretchen married Herbert Gray and after they divorced she married Grant A. Black (1913-1976) who was from Michigan, and they lived in Fort Worth, Texas and later Goldsboro, North Carolina. She died under the name of "Gretchen Black" in her home town of Des Moines, Iowa.

Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) death certificate

Sarah Jane Carr (1863-1950) death certificate

Vincent Gerard Norton (1923-2005); Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942); and Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ) circa 1925-1927 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Vincent Gerard Norton (1923-2005); Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942); and Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ) circa 1925-1927 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Source: Vincent Gerard Norton (1923-2005) archive.

Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) circa 1925 at the corner of Garfield Avenue in Jersey City circa 1925

Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) aka Kate Norton, circa 1925 at the corner of Garfield Avenue in Jersey City circa 1925.

Source: The collection of James Joseph Norton (1929- ).

Jane E. Hogan (1864-1949) and Catherine Mary Hogan (1864-1941) circa 1920

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) circa 1920.

Source: Image from the collection of Deirdre Anne Laura Kellar (1964- ).

Theodore Wintrone (1886-?); and Norval Wintrone (1890-1918) in hat, holding Hazel Wintrone (1916- )

Theodore Wintrone (1886-?); and Norval Wintrone (1890-1918) in hat, holding Hazel Wintrone (1916- ). Photograph from the collection of Dorothy Lozinski (1920- ).

Tillie Olson (1885-1918), wife of Norval Wintrone

Person: Tillie Olson (1885-1918) aka Matilda Olson; Private Secretary at O'Connor and Goldberg Shoe Store in Chicago; Homesteader in Devil's Lake in North Dakota; Died during Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (b. July 1885, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA - d. 1918, Devils Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota, USA)

Source: Photograph from the collection of Dorothy Lozinski (1920- ).