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JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
SCHMIDT Narrative
ADELBERT SCHMIDT
"The old man" 1 migrated from Berlin with his wife Charlotta and son Max. Lived at 59 First Ave., Brooklyn. Reportedly, a handsome man.1
MAXIMILIAN SCHMIDTBorn in Berlin. He and wife Margarethe Krohle were married and lived at 755 Park Ave., Brooklyn in a five bedroom upstairs apartment from 1893 until his death in 1910. He earned a comfortable living as a pocketbook designer for Stember Bros. He played the accordion and entertained his family playing and singing German songs. Max died at home in 1910 at age 39 - a traumatic event for his wife and young children.
MARGARET CLARA (SCHMIDT) SCHAUFELBERGERNamed after her mother and maternal grandmother (both named Margarethe) as well as a good friend of her parents named Clara, she was born in her home and attended school at PS 55, PS 148 and Eastern District High School. Her father's death when she was 15 was a very traumatic event which necessitated her working to help the support the family and killed her plans for education beyond high school (although she attended the LI Business College on a full scholarship). Her first job was as secretary for stationary wholesaler William Allen of Broadway, New York, a job she quit after 7 mos. due to stress. Her next was as secretary and cashier for artificial flower importer Frank Neschert. She worked there for 5 years (with her brother Max's wife Tillie) at $22 per week until she left in 1916 for more money at drug wholesaler McKesson & Robbins, where she worked for another five years as secretary to the sales manager - a time she called the best in her life.
She left McKesson & Robbins to have her first child, "Margie", who got off to a rocky start in life when she did not respond properly at her birth in the family home in Queens Village, New York. The doctor asked for hard liquor which he then injected into her rump to bring her to life. It worked, but she carried a permanent scar as a result. Interestingly, the Schaufelbergers did not generally keep hard liquor in the house (being predominately beer drinkers) but Margaret's boss at McKesson & Robbins had given her a bottle of Golden Wedding(?) scotch as a gift when she had quit work so there was hard liquor on hand.
Later she worked for the Election Board (1932-1936) and was social columnist for the Brooklyn Chat (1936 -1940). She moved with her husband to an apartment in Rochester (near where their son lived) in 1974. After his death she moved to a lifecare facility called St. John's Home also in that city and died there at the age of 101. For more on her life see narrative for Charles Schaufelberger.
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1 "Grandparent's Book" of Margaret (Schmidt) Schaufelberger |
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