User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Family History
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[edit] Thomas Patrick Norton (1920- ) Bookkeeper and World War II Veteran
Thomas Patrick Norton (b. July 08, 1920, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA)
[edit] Mastoiditis
It is said that strong memories can many times be associated with traumatic events and in my case my earliest has to do with intense pain. When I was about five years old I developed an ear infection which resulted in mastoiditis and I can remember when the specialist who was recommended by our family doctor came to our home at 603 Garfield Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey to examine me, and my mother's tearful reaction when he told her that I would have to be hospitalized and operated on to drain the abscessed ear. I can still remember fighting the ether mask and how sick to my stomach I was when I finally awoke and also how heavy my head felt when I tried to get up.
[edit] Tonsilitis
The next time I was hospitalized and given ether, I was a little older and wiser and did breathe slowly and deeply as I was told and as a result did not suffer the same after effects. This was for a minor overnight stay to remove my tonsils and adenoids when I was about eight years old.
[edit] Scarlet Fever
I was the first born and may have been a little premature because I weighed only about five pounds. My brothers and my sister were bigger and were in the seven to eight pound range at birth. I only mention this because I seemed to be the one who was to get all the childhood diseases and one of the worst was a very bad case of scarlet fever. This was when I was about ten and I was kept under quarantine at home. I was isolated in a small room which had to be kept dark to protect my eyes and the doorway was covered by a sheet dampened by a solution of Lysol. The effect of the fever caused a mild heart murmur and as I continued to grow up, a gradual lessening of flexibility in my joints.
[edit] Physical Education
I remember this very well because in junior high school we had to take physical education under the supervision of a special teacher in a gymnasium (in elementary school we just went outside to play games while the teachers watched) and the special teacher, a Mr. Schenkle, a grossly overweight, loud-mouthed, profane, bully was, to me, a sorry example to set as a result of physical education. Again, intense pain is the reason this is burned into my memory because when we were doing our exercises and were required to reach down and touch our toes, I could not get much further than my knees and Mr. Schenkle who loved to vocally excoriate "slackers" as he called the non-achievers, decided to help me by coming up behind me and pushing my back down. This just about finished me as he strained not only my back, but my hamstrings as well. I was not able to go to school for quite a while and never took physical education again. The subject is required under New Jersey state law but I was able to avoid it by having my doctor petition the school authorities to excuse me due to my heart murmur.
[edit] Second Mastoiditis
I developed mastoiditis in my other ear when I was twelve years old but it was caught earlier and the operation was merely to puncture the eardrum to drain out the infection. It was performed at home by the same specialist, a Doctor Morris Pyle who had his office at Exchange Place in Jersey City.
[edit] Appendicitis
My most serious medical problem was a burst appendix which resulted in gangrene and peritonitis and almost cost me my life. I remember the pain. I had the attack in high school when I was just sixteen and the nurse sent me home. We had no telephone then and really never had an automobile (my father had won a car in a church raffle some years before but he was such a poor driver that my mother had him sell it. Jersey city was not a good place to have a car anyway because there was no place to garage the car or to park it.) I lived about two miles from the high school and started to walk home. When I was one block away from my house my appendix must have burst because I remember trying to hold myself upright by grabbing the pole that held the sign for Stegman Street and Ocean Avenue but I gradually slipped down to my knees and then blacked out. I do not know who got me home or how my mother got word to the doctor but it took time before he could get to me and make the arrangements to get me to the hospital. It was an emergency operation which was performed about midnight and the delay undoubtedly led to the serious nature of the infection. I was in the hospital for a month and was given the last rites of the church. I was kept under sedation by morphine not only for the pain but also to keep me from writhing and inadvertently pulling out the tubes which were feeding me but also draining the infection. I lost twenty five pounds and came out as a living skeleton. Our family doctor, George Brick (the one who sent me to Dr. Pyle, the specialist and who arranged for me to be sent to the St. Francis hospital for the appendectomy) gave my father a recipe for a tonic to help me gain back some of the weight I had lost. It was like eggnog with milk and cinnamon but was fortified with sherry wine. My dad dutifully made this for me every day and at the same time made one for himself. It gradually helped me to gain back some of the lost weight but unfortunately caused him to gain weight he did not need. My general health improved considerably after the appendix operation and recovery and to compensate for the missing physical education at school I took up dynamic tension, a form of non-equipment exercise. I always like to run and so kept in good shape.
[edit] Grocery Store
When I graduated from high school at sixteen I was, in a way, still a kid. I was small and shy but I got a full time job as a clerk in our local eagle grocery store. It was a two man store, the manager and me. The pay was five dollars a week for sixty hours of work but I did such a good job that the manager, an old man named Bill Miller who suffered from ulcers, gave me an extra fifty cents out of his own pocket because I did most of the work and let him take it easy if possible. The corner grocery store in 1937 was a far cry from the supermarkets of today. As the clerk of the two man staff I had to sweep the sidewalk every morning, put up or down the awnings as the weather dictated, wash the display windows once a week and when the grocery delivery was made the truckmen would just put the barrels and boxes on the sidewalk, the manager would confirm the delivery, sign for it and I would have to move it all inside to the back storeroom. Also much of the items such as flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, potatoes, etc. had to be broken down into smaller amounts such as pounds, dozens, quarts, etc. This was my job also. I had to restock the shelves by carefully removing the old items, wiping the shelf and then replacing the old items in front of the newer ones. When the store was busy I also would wait on customers by physically moving about the store to bring whatever they wanted to the counter, wrapping it up and also delivering it to their home if that was requested. That was usually worth a ten cent tip! There were no scanners then so you had to know all the prices and you had to add up the total (twice as a matter of fact for the required confirmation). After about a year I left Mr. Miller to work as an experienced clerk for the National Grocery Company at a salary of eight dollars a week. Grocery stores then were open six days a week from 8 am until 6 Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
[edit] Eagle Printing Ink Company
When I was eighteen I got a job with the Eagle Printing Ink Company as a shipping clerk on the recommendation of Pete Van Deusen who used to live next door to us on Garfield Avenue. Pete was seven years older than me and had the same job with Mr. Miller when he was just out of high school. He was a quality control inspector at the ink plant and was the manager of the company softball team in the Jersey City industrial league. He wanted me to play on the company team and I agreed to do it. I had played for him once before in the Sunday softball league in Bayside Park in Jersey City. About this time in my life I became a member of the Jersey City Lancers a local neighborhood sports club made up of young men for fun more than anything else. It was encouraged by the grownups because we played at the local parks or schools and generally kept out of trouble. Besides working at the ink plant and playing on their softball team in the summer, I also played softball and baseball for the Lancers on Sunday in the summer and football in the fall and winter. I played football for the Lancers on Thanksgiving day in 1939 and was hurt so that I could not go to work the next day at the ink company. Since we did not have a telephone, there was no way that I could report my reason for being absent and when I went to work on the following Monday I found out that I was fired.
[edit] Mutual Chemical Company
I went to the state unemployment office to see if I could register for benefits. (I was not sure if my circumstances were covered) and instead they sent me on an interview for a job with the Mutual Chemical Company of America a large bulk processing and refining company in Jersey City. They were looking to hire a traffic clerk. I had never worked as a traffic clerk before or even knew what one did but I had observed how the shipping room operated at the ink company and told them I was willing to learn and they hired me for fifteen dollars for a five and a half day, forty-four hour week. The traffic clerk job was to keep the necessary records of all of the incoming raw materials and the outgoing finished products. It involved both railroad and trucking and domestic and overseas shipments. I worked under the traffic manager who was also the office manager and paymaster and he encouraged me to go with him to the local traffic club when they had educational seminars in order to broaden my knowledge.
[edit] World War II
When our country went to war against the axis in December, 1941 I felt particularly obliged to contribute because one of my friends from the Lancers was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had joined the Navy only about six months before. I told them at the chemical company that I was going to enter the service and they said my job would be there when I returned. When I went to the Navy recruiting office in New York City in early 1942 to enlist, I failed the physical because I was underweight, had bad hearing and the heart murmur. They suggested that I try to gain eight pounds to bring me up to their standard for my height and build to ensure that I had no chronic health problem which was keeping my weight so low and to be re-tested. It took me several months to gain the weight (I had to eat a lot of bananas and cream plus a regular high calorie diet) and when I was re-tested I was sent to the officer in charge, a full Navy captain, who explained that he would have to make a recommendation because my hearing and heart were not 100%. He said the problems were slight but enough to keep me out under ordinary circumstances but this was wartime and if I still wanted to join the Navy he would approve a limited duty enlistment which would mean I could not serve in the submarine service or in the naval flight service. I agreed and was sent to the U.S. Naval training station in Newport, Rhode Island for boot camp then to Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania for radio school and then to Noroton Heights, Connecticut for special advanced communication school. I was finally assigned to the United States Navy armed guard service facility at the Brooklyn Naval Armory in late November of 1942. The armed guard service of the Navy provided gunners and communication personnel for allied shipping which moved in convoys under naval protection against German planes and submarines. My first ship, the James Iradell, was in the invasion of Casablanca in December, 1942 and in the invasion of Sicily in 1943. During my almost three years of sea duty I was on many ships and went to Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, England, Ireland, Scotland, France and Algeria as well, to some of these countries many times. I was discharged from the Navy at the Lido Beach Separation Center in Long Island in late 1945.
[edit] Genealogy
- Ancestors of Richard Arthur Norton
[edit] Olof Emanuel Näslund (1829-1906) Land Surveyor in Härnösand, Sweden
Olof Emanuel Näslund (April 29, 1829 - September 17, 1906) aka Manny Naslund. He was a land surveyor in Härnösand, Sweden.
[edit] Birth and siblings
Olof was born in Härnösand, Västernorrland, Sweden. His father was Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796-1858) who was the 18th Assistant Vicar at Torsåker in Sweden, who died of smallpox; His mother was Johanna Gustafva Ruuth (1800-1860). Olof had the following siblings: Johan Israel Näslund (1822-1906) who was the 26th Vicar of Härnösand who married Emma Maria Falk (1817-1860) and later married Charlotta Sofia Berg; Carl Gustaf Näslund (1825-1899) who was the Vicar of Arnäs who married Johanna Geijer; and Elsa Maria Elisabet Näslund (1829-?) who was Olof's twin who married Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901) who was a schoolteacher and church organist at Ytterlännäs.
[edit] Marriage but no children
Olof married Annette Brandell (1820-?) around 1845. Annette was the daughter of Ullånger Per Brandell and Anna Brita Geting. Annette had a brother: Abraham Brandell (1828-?). Olof and Annette did not have any children.
[edit] Death and burial
Olof died in 1906 at the home of his brother, Johan Israel Näslund, who lived in Ragunda, Jämtland, Sweden. Both are buried in the church cemetery in Ragunda.
[edit] External links
Findagrave: Olof Emanuel Näslund
[edit] Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (1891-1968) Real Estate and Insurance
Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (August 9, 1891 - January 22, 1968) aka A.O. Freudenberg. He worked in real estate and insurance in Jersey City, New Jersey.
[edit] Birth
Arthur was born in 1891 at 104 Madison Avenue in Hoboken, New Jersey. His father was Maximillian S. Freudenberg I (1858-1921) and his mother was Eloise Lindauer II (1860-1935). Later his family moved to Jersey City.
[edit] Early Years
In 1923 Arthur had his biography published in the "History of Hudson County" and it reads as follows:
- "Taking a prominent part in the present day advance of Hudson County, New Jersey, as a dealer and operator in real estate and insurance. Mr. Arthur O. Freudenberg is carrying into his business principles of honesty and fair dealing which bear so important a relation to the public welfare. Still a young man, and always in close touch with the movement of the times, Mr. Freudenberg is counted among the influences of progress which are carrying Hudson County to ever larger prosperity. Of the sons of these parents Louis J. Freudenberg was killed in action in the World War. He served as a runner or messenger with Company M., 309th Infantry, 78th Division, and was shot in the Argonne, October 16th, 1918. Richard, another brother, served at Camp Meade, Maryland, but was not sent overseas. Maximillian Freudenberg was active in the insurance business in New York City for many years, in the capacity of actuary in the German department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Arthur O. Freudenberg was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, August 9, 1891. His education was begun in the local public schools. Later attending the public schools of Jersey City, as the residence of the family changed, he continued his studies at the Jersey City public and high schools, and also attending evening school for two years. Mr. Freudenberg’s first business experience was with the famous publishing house of the Street & Smith Company, of New York City, where he continued for a full decade, then for about two years he conducted a typewriter exchange in Jersey City and also in New York. In the year 1918, Mr. Freudenberg identified himself with the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, as a field representative, and is still active in this capacity. He also handles a very extensive real estate and insurance business, and with offices at No. 109 Paterson Plank Road, West Hoboken, and is taking a definite part in the local advance. Mr. Freudenberg acts as a notary public, is a Democrat by political affiliation, and is a member of Waverly Congregational Church. His brother Eugene Freudenberg, fraternally holds membership in the Junior Order United American Mechanics, of Jersey City, Summit Council, No. 87. He is also a member of the Waverly Congregational Church."
On October 12, 1922 a caricature of Arthur was published in the Hudson Dispatch when he was the Secretary for H.J. Bauridel Real Estate, Insurance and Auctioneer. He later had a real estate business with a partner and the company was "Freudenberg and Saedler" located at 109 Paterson Plank Road in West Hoboken, New Jersey. He taught Sunday School at Waverly Congregational Church.
[edit] Marriage and Children
On February 28, 1914 at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 195 Claremont Avenue in Jersey City, Arthur married Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987). Together they had three children: Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) who married Burnett Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993); Selma Louise Freudenberg; and Helen Eloise Freudenberg (1928-1987) who married John Earl Borland I (1924-1986) and later married Al Brindley (c1930- ).
[edit] Abandoned Family
Arthur was a womanizer, and around 1928 he ran off with another woman but never divorced Maria, his wife. The oral family tradition has been that she was a burlesque stripper, but the stripper may have been a woman that he was dating at a later time. Around 1947 he sold one of the buildings he owned on Central Avenue in Jersey City, and used the money to buy a brand new Cadillac. This was the building that he had his office in. Everyone in the family told him not to sell the building and to keep collecting rental income from it. He sold it and the Cadillac he bought was ruined within a few years. During the late 1940's he was living with Edlycoe Klynman aka AdaLee on Cottage Street and she had a daughter, but Arthur was not the father. Richard Freudenberg (1918-1994) dated the daughter. AdaLee but he wouldn't get a divorce from Marie and marry her, so she left him after taking all his money. Arthur never gave any money to support his family. Maria had to scrub floors and wash laundry through the Depression to pay for food and shelter. Later in life he had diabetes and had to have a few toes amputated. His daughter Helen told him: "don't worry, the women will still love you".
[edit] Death and Burial
He had a heart attack in 1968 on Journal Square in Jersey City at the bus station. His nephew, and namesake Arthur Freudenberg (1929- ) was walking home in Jersey City and saw a crowd surrounding a man lying on the ground. He had come across his uncle Arthur having the heart attack. Arthur died on January 22, 1968 at the Jersey City Medical Center on 50 Baldwin Avenue in Jersey City. He was buried in Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey.
[edit] References
- Van Winkle, Daniel; History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1923; page 728-729
- Hudson Dispatch, October 12, 1922, page 13
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[edit] Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) Yardmaster at Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Thomas Patrick Norton I (February 28, 1891 - January 12, 1968) Yardmaster at Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Hoboken, New Jersey.
[edit] Birth
Thomas was the son of Patrick J. Norton (c1858-1905) and Sarah Jane Carr (c1865-1950). Both parents were immigrants from Ireland. No birth certificate exists for Tom, he had to use his baptismal certificate when he applied to retire at the railroad. He was baptised on Sunday, November 08, 1891 at Saint Bridget's Parish in Jersey City, New Jersey and his godparents were Matthew Norton, his uncle; and Ellen Hogan, a cousin of his mother.
[edit] Railroad Career
In 1905 Tom’s father died and Tom took a job with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in August of 1906 as a messenger at age 15. He was promoted to weightmaster in October and worked in that position until April of 1907 when he became a clerk. In April of 1912 he was promoted to a switchman.
[edit] World War I
Tom filled out his draft card for World War I on June 05, 1917 and enlisted at Fort Slocum in New York on June 12, 1917. He trained at Camp Dix in New Jersey and on December 07, 1917 he tried unsuccessfully to transfer into a Railroad Engineer unit. He wrote: "[I] went to Philadelphia, Pa. to enlist in the Rail-road Engineers as a switchman but they had their full quota. Knowing that I would be of better service to the Government in the Rail-road Engineers than in the Ambulance Corps, I therefore request a transfer." He then served as an ambulance driver in the Lightning Division, as part of Company 310 starting on June 04, 1918. He was in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive. On Tuesday, November 12, 1918, the last day of the War he wrote to Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949), his future wife: "My dear sweetheart, little one, now that the war is over, it won't be long now when I will be back in God's Country with you, dear heart. Have been out of the lines a few days now, thank God, for it sure is hell there. Don't think the ground taken by American's was not paid for by good American lives. [I] picked up this card in the Argonne Forest in a German dugout. I am well and hope you are the same." He returned to the US on May 27, 1919 and was discharged on June 02, 1919.
[edit] Marriage and Children
Tom married Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949), on Saturday, September 27, 1919 at Saint John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Jersey City. Mary was the daughter of John Joseph Burke I (1868-1939) and Nora M. Finn (1866-1898). The witnesses were his brother, James Joseph Norton I (1892-1961), and Mary’s half-sister, Bertha Burke (1902-1971). Tom went back to work at the railroad in June 1919 as yardmaster and stayed in that position until he retired on February 28, 1956. By 1920 Tom and Mary were living at 112-114 Romaine Avenue and then by 1930 they bought a two family house at 603 Garfield Avenue in Jersey City. Together they had 5 children, and three lived to adulthood. The children were: Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ); Vincent Gerard Norton (1923- ); John Burke Norton (1927) who died as an infant; James Joseph Norton II (1929- ); and Catherine Finn Norton (1930-1934). Catherine might have had an inherited metabolic disorder, she never grew properly and died of pneumonia at age 4, one day after her birthday.
[edit] Middle Years
At the railroad, Tom worked 12 hour days for 28 days a month. He received two Sundays off each month. Once he won a brand new Oldsmobile in a raffle, but he was such a terrible driver, his wife made him sell the car. One time while driving he tore off the door of a car, from a man who opened the driver side door while parked at the curb. In 1949, his wife, Mary died of appendicitis. She was in pain for several days, and her daughter-in-law, Selma Freudenberg (1921- ) dropped by on a surprise visit, found her sick and called an ambulance. She told Selma that "you saved my life", but she died 14 days later from the infection.
[edit] Second Marriage
On July 29, 1950 Tom married Josephine (May) Veronica Burke (1907-1995) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in Morton, Pennsylvania. Josephine was the half-sister of his first wife. The newspaper gives the following account of the wedding: "Miss May Veronica Burke, niece of Mrs. Mary E. Patterson, of 1181 Villanova Avenue, Rutledge, and Thomas Norton of 603 Garfield Avenue, Jersey City, NJ, were united in marriage this morning at 10 o'clock in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Morton. Rev. Joseph B. Gibson performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, William Burke, wore a powder blue chiffon gown and hat and a corsage of pink rosebuds. Mrs. Leona Hammelbacher, of Egg Harbor, NJ, the matron of honor, wore a dusty rose chiffon gown and a corsage of tea roses. James Norton, of Jersey City was the best man for Mr. Norton. A wedding breakfast at Media Inn, Media, followed the ceremony after which Mr. and Mrs. Norton left for a wedding trip to Niagara Falls, Great Lakes and Chicago, and upon their return they will reside at 603 Garfield Avenue, Jersey City. The bride attended Lansdowne High School. Mr. Norton, a railroad official, is a veteran of World War I."
[edit] Retirement and Death
Thomas retired from the railroad on February 28, 1956 and moved to Ocean County, New Jersey. He suffered a heart attack while watching a football game on TV while living at 17 Pine Street in his Jackson, New Jersey home. The game was between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys for the National Football League Championship on New Years Eve, Sunday, December 31, 1967. It was Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys versus Vince Lombardi and the two-time defending champion Green Bay Packers. He was a big fan of Vince Lombardi. Tom died 13 days later at Paul Kimball Hospital in Lakewood, New Jersey and he is buried in Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City with his wife and her mother’s family. His obituary appeared in the Asbury Park Press on January 13, 1968. Tom died with all his teeth, except one that was knocked out in a fight and had been replaced with a gold one.
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[edit] James Joseph Kennedy (1866-1926) Plasterer
James Joseph Kennedy (July 1866 - December 13, 1926) emigrated from Ireland to USA in 1885 and worked as a plasterer where he died of a heart attack at the future site of the Chrysler Building.
[edit] Birth and emigration
James was born in Sligo, Ireland to Richard Kennedy (c1830-c1871) and Mary Malloy (1830-1901). His siblings include: Mary Kennedy (1866-1949) who married a Brennan and died in Cincinnati in Ohio; Patrick Kennedy (c1865-1938); and Thomas Kennedy (c1865-1929). James emigrated from Ireland to the US between 1885 and 1888 and lived in New York City.
[edit] Marriage and children
Around 1895 James married another Irish immigrant, Katherine Carr (1865-1951). Katherine was the daughter of Thomas Carr (c1840-?) and Bridget Conboy (c1840-?) of Hollygrove, Athleague, Killeroran on the County Roscommon and County Galway border. Katherine and James had seven children with five living to adulthood: Kathryn Kennedy (1897-1974) who married Joseph O'Malley (1893-1985) who was the uncle of Walter Francis O'Malley (1903-1979) the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1950 to 1979; Mary Frances Kennedy (1898-1982) who married Walter M. Hill (1893-1965) who was a taxi driver and movie projectionist; Josephine Kennedy (1899-1900) aka Sarah Kennedy, who died as an infant; Thomas Kennedy (1901-1972) who never married; James Gerard Kennedy (1902-1903) who died as an infant; Joseph Kennedy (1905-1983) who never married; and James Gerard Kennedy I (1907-1997) aka James G. Kennedy, Sr. who married Antoinette Granato (1916-1942) and who later married Rita Masset and was the owner of an eponymous construction company. In 1900 James and Katherine were living on 8th Street in the Harlem section of Manhattan, Katherine was listed as "Kate Kennedy" and James was working as a plasterer. In 1920 they were living at West 160th Street in Harlem, and he was still working as a plasterer. His son James Gerard Kennedy would start out his career as a plasterer also.
[edit] Death and burial
He died of heart attack at future site of the Chrysler Building on December 13, 1926 at 43 Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. The groundbreaking for the Chrysler Building was on September 19,1928. He was buried at Saint Raymonds Cemetery in the Bronx with Katherine and two of his children that died as infants: Sarah Josephine Kennedy; and James Gerard Kennedy I.
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[edit] Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901) Schoolteacher in Sweden
Anton Julius Winblad I (August 10, 1828 - October 30, 1901) was the very first schoolteacher in Ytterlännäs, Sweden. He was also the choir leader and the church organist from 1851 to 1866.
[edit] Birth, first marriage and children
Anton was born in 1828 in Stockholm, Sweden and by 1851 he was teaching and leading the church choir in Ytterlännäs, Sweden. He married Margareta (Greta) Kristina Höglund (1819-1854) on June 24, 1852 in Högsjö and in 1853 Antonette Kristina Winblad and Johanna Maria Winblad, their twin daughters were born. On June 11, 1854 their third child, Antonette Kristina Winblad II was born and Margareta, his wife, died in childbirth. After his wife's death Anton travelled to Härnösand to take the exam to be certified as an organist.
[edit] Second marriage
When he returned, he began a courtship of Elsa Maria Elisabeth Näslund (1829-1907). Elsa's father was Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796-1858) the Reverend of Ytterlännäs. Anton and Elsa married on August 07, 1855 in Ytterlännäs and they had the following children: Karl Israel Winblad (1857-1858) who died as an infant; Johan Edvard Winblad (1856-1914) aka John Edward Winblad who ran away from home rather than become a priest and married Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) aka Salmina Olsdatter, in Norway and emigrated to the United States; Johanna Winblad (1859-1916) who married Per Olof Bernhard Vahlberg (1852-aft1890); Carl Gustaf Winblad (1861-1863) who died as an infant; Anton Teodor Winblad (1862-?) who became a Lieutenant in the military; Maria Elisabeth Winblad II (1865-1937) who married the storekeeper Jonas Kempe (1861-1918); and Frideborg Winblad (1869-c1950) who was born in Anundsjö and never married, and became a teacher herself in Ytterlännäs.
[edit] Ytterlännäs and Härnösand
David Kettlewell writes the following in his history of music at the church: "From the year 1851 on, the leaders of the church choir are documented. In that year came the first teacher in the parish, Anton Julius Winblad, born [in] 1828 in Stockholm. Three years later [in 1854,] one can read in a parish protocol his asking to end the school year for the season, to be able to go to Härnösand and learn to play the organ and to take the organ exam." On January 24, 1866 Anton moved the family to Prästbordet and it appears that Johan, his first born son, did not move with the family. Anton appears in the 1890 Sweden Census working as a school teacher and living in Anundsjö with his wife and two unmarried children: Antonette Kristina Winblad from his first marriage; and Friedeborg Winblad.
[edit] Death
Anton died in 1901 in Sweden and is buried in Sweden, probably in Ytterlännäs or Prästbordet.
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[edit] Louis Julius Freudenberg (1894-1918) Killed in Action WWI
Louis Julius Freudenberg (August 4, 1894 - October 16, 1918) was killed in action during WWI
[edit] Birth
Louis was born on August 04, 1894 at 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey to Maximillian Freudenberg (1857-1921) and Eloise Lindauer (1860-1935). Max and Eloise had 15 children and 9 survived to adulthood and 5 of those children went on to have children and grandchildren themselves.
[edit] Street and Smith Publishers
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. Louis liked to spend time visiting his mother's family in Rye, New York.
[edit] Butler Brothers then draft
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 02, 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.
[edit] Draft
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.
[edit] Battle of Montfaucon
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.
[edit] Death and burial
He was buried on November 05, 1918 in Argonne, France. The body was disinterred on June 07, 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.
[edit] Archive
Louis is listed in "Soldiers of the Great War, Volume 2" and he has a file at the New Jersey State Archive in Trenton which contain 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. As of September 2004 it is stored at Flower Hill Cemetery waiting for the $300 needed to install it.
[edit] Maria Elizabeth Winblad III (1895-1987)
Maria Elizabeth Winblad III (1895-1987) aka Mae Winblad; 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 7, 1987, 4:35 am, Christ Hospital, 176 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA) Social Security Number 147188206.
[edit] Birth
Maria was born in Greenwich Village in Manhattan in 1895 to John Edward Winblad I (1856-1914) of Sweden; and Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) aka Salmina Olsdatter, of Norway. The New York City Birth Index incorrectly lists Maria as "Mary E. Weinblad".
[edit] Siblings
Maria's siblings are: Anton (Tony) Julius Winblad (1886-1975) who married Eva Ariel Lattin (1892-1939) and after her death married Marguerite (Marge) Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1891-1972); 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 (Eddie) Edward Winblad II (1897-1899) 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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Children
Together Maria and Arthur had the following children: Naida Muriel Freudenberg (1915-1998) who married Burnett (Pete) Peter Van Deusen (1913-1993); Selma Louise Freudenberg (1921- ); and Helen Eloise Freudenberg (1928-1989) who had a child with Eddie Ganlan and later married John Earl Borland I (1924-1986) and later married Albert Brindley.
[edit] 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 06, 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Broken Hip
In the late 1970s she broke her hip in Paramus and was confined to the Lutheran nursing home in Jersey City.
[edit] Death
She died in 1987 of a heart attack at age 92 and is buried in Bayview Cemetery with her daughter, Helen, and her brother who died as an infant, John (Eddy) Edward Winblad II. Many of her letters are extant and archived.
[edit] 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."
[edit] Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866)
Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815 - September 5, 1866) emigrated from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834. He along with his children operated a series of liquor and cigar stores in Manhattan, New York and Jersey City, New Jersey. Their cigar business was Lindauer and Company Tobacconists which manufactured and sold cigars throughout Manhattan and Hudson County, New Jersey.
[edit] Birth, emigration, and marriage
Oscar was born in 1815 in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine where his parents owned a department store. In 1834 he married Sophia Weber (1815-1891) and on their honeymoon they emigrated to Philadelphia in the United States. They had three children in Philadelphia: Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1835-1921) who married Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931); John Jacob Lindauer (1841-1888) who married Nellie X (1853-1899) and worked as the cigar maker; and Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) who married Mary Sheehan (1842-1888).
[edit] Philadelphia to Manhattan
Oscar and Anna moved from Philadelphia to New York around 1850 and their daughter, Eloise Lindauer I (1852-1944) was born there. Eloise would later marry William Arthur Ensko II (1850-1889) and have several children and grandchildren. Oscar and Anna lived on Houston Street in Greenwich Village in New York City and Oscar and his children operated a liquor vending business or an "exchange". Other entries in the City Directory list the children as "brokers". In 1866 he was living at 81 Grand Street in Manhattan and his occupation was listed as "exchange".
[edit] Death and burial
Oscar died in 1866 and he was buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York and his funeral notice appeared in the New York Herald on September 7, 1866.
[edit] References
- New York Herald, September 7, 1866, Funeral Notice, Oscar Lindauer
- Brooklyn Eagle, June 2, 1889, Lindauer and Company, Tobacco
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[edit] Frideborg Winblad (1869-1964)
Frideborg Winblad (1869-1964) aka Boj Winblad, Pioneering woman schoolteacher in Härnösand, Sweden (b. January 18, 1869, Anundsjö, Västernorrland, Sweden - d. November 30, 1964, Fristad, Härnösand, Västernorrland, Sweden)
[edit] Birth
Frideborg was the daughter of Anton Julius Winblad I (1828-1901), the church organist and the first schoolteacher of Ytterlännäs, Sweden; and Elsa Maria Elisabeth Näslund (1829-1907). Elsa's father was the vicar of Ytterlännäs.
[edit] Siblings
Her siblings include: Karl Israel Winblad (1857-?); Johan Edward Winblad (1856-1914) who was a ship's mate that emigrated to Norway and married Salmine Sophia Severine Pedersen (1862-1914) then emigrated to the United States; Johanna Winblad (1859-?) who married Per Olof Bernhard Wahlberg (1852-?) a school teacher; Anton Teodor Winblad (1862-?); and Maria Elisabeth Winblad I (1865-1937) who married Jonas Kempe (1861-1918). She also had a half sister: Antonette Kristina Winblad (1854-aft1890) from the marriage of her father to Margareta Kristina Höglund I (1819-1853) aka Greta Stina Höglund, who died in childbirth.
[edit] Teacher
She graduated from the Teacher's School in Umeå at age 27.
[edit] Härnösand, Sweden
In 1890 Frideborg was living in Prestbolet with her parents, and her father was working as a teacher. Like her father, she also became a teacher, and she moved to Härnösand on October 05, 1896, and lived at #137, 8th quarter in the city. In 1900 she was still living in Härnösand by herself and was working as a "Lärarinna".
[edit] Writings
In August 1956 she wrote to Ulla Margareta Kempe (1932- ) and Börje Pettersson (1932- ) the following: "Dear Ulla and Börje, with my little engagement gift I send you the warmest greetings for your common future. It's like this, that if problems occur, it's nice to be two. Because a shared burden is only a half burden, and shared happiness is double! I have no experience of my own, since I'm 'happily un-married', as someone said. But I do think that it's true. Don't forget to invite Jesus to your wedding as well as for the weekdays! He'll love to come, and not just that, he also wants to stay! Yours sincerely, your old friend Auntie Boj".
[edit] Death
Frideborg died on November 30, 1964 and she was buried in Härnösand, Västernorrland län, Sweden. She was 95 years old. Lennart Haglund (1928- ) writes on July 11, 2005: "When I search for Frideborg Winblad in the 'death book' I get nothing from the name, which is not unusual. [Searching] for a woman born 1869 and dead 1964, your Frideborg appears, I am sure, though nameless: 'Unmarried and dead on November 30, 1964 in Härnösand.' Her birthplace is called unknown here."
[edit] Burial
Lennart Haglund (1928- ) writes on July 10, 2005: "I had a phone call from Anundsjö this morning, an answer to my earlier question about A.J. Winblad. His grave is there and will be preserved for the future (due to a decision from 1955), as it is situated close to the church and [is] part of its 'milieu'. At least the stone will not be moved. A.J. Winblad is buried there and so is his wife (hustru) and daughter (dotter). A 'Fridborg Winblad' was mentioned, maybe an early burial. The last known 'grave right holder' (grav/rätts/innehavare) was a Frideborg Winblad, a 'rektor' (headmaster or principal) from Härnösand, not far from Ytterlännäs. She is also buried there, if I remember it alright in 1964. The grave plot is 'GA' and the number '61-64'."
[edit] Obituary
Her obituary appeared in the Västernorrlands Allehandra on December 02, 1964. The obituary was found by the Härnösand Landsarkivet and the translation was by Lennart Haglund (1928- ) on July 18, 2005: "Former seminarierektorn/head of a traning college miss Frideborg Winblad, Härnösand died on Monday this week at the nursing home Fristad, where she lived her last years. She was 95 years old. Frideborg Winblad was one of the country´s women of distinction as regards infant school education. When the state authorities many years ago started to develope better education for infant school teachers and to create a new (undervisningsplan) plan for [all] education, miss Winblad became the only female member of the committee. She was also during many years vice chairman of the board of the (national) association for infant school teachers. Frideborg Winblad was born in Bredbyn (now Anundsjö), where her father was an organist. After passing her exams at the seminary for (folkskollärare) primary school teachers in Umeå 1896, she began to work as a teacher at the infant school; seminary training college in Härnösand, and became in 1907 its head/director. She stayed on this post until she became a pensioner in 1929. Her character made her popular among colleges, pupils and friends, whose thankfulness made them found a scholarship in her name on her 70th birthday. Nearest grieving are the children of her siblings and their families."
[edit] Timeline
- 1869 Born in Anundsjö, Västernorrland, Sweden
- 1896 Graduated from Teacher's School in Umeå at age 27
- 1896 Moves to Härnösand
- 1907 Becomes Director of seminary training college in Härnösand at age 38
- 1929 Retires at age 60
- 1939 Scholarship created in her name at age 70
- 1964 Death in Fristad nursing home at age 95
