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In the Bremen Christmas Book (1915), there is to be found a chapter entitled "Idyl of a Bremen Suburb, 1833," from the Documents of the Tanners' Guild in the Historical Museum." It includes an episode pertaining to the time when Thomas Achelis, after the annual rendering of ac- counts of the Guild and the banquet following it, sent the other three Guild Masters to their homes in his carriage, his colleagues, however, spending the night in the carriage in the Remberti Cemetery.
Thomas Achelis married, first, December 5, 1790, Mag- dalena (Bagelmann) Gloystein, widow of Johann Gloy- stein.
Thomas Achelis married, second, January 18, 1803, Anna Adelheid Wichelhausen, daughter of Peter and Elisabeth (Linds) Wilchelhausen; she was born at Bremen, December 28, 1776 and died there May 8, 1844.
Issue, by first wife, all born in Bremen:
1. Rebekka Antoinette Achelis, born in 1791; died in 1854; married, in 1820, Friedrich Heinrich Basse. 2 Thomas Achelis, born in 1793; died in 1803.
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3. Friedrich Achelis, born May 1, 1795; died February 28, 1849; married, in 1822, his cousin, Gesina Duckwitz. Issue, five children.
4. Marie Elisabeth Achelis, born in 1796; died in 1801.
5. Johann Achelis, born August 16, 1798; died Febr- uary 20, 1864; married, in 1835, Wilhelmine Zieme. Issue two children.
6. Magdalene Achelis, born in 1799; died in 1869; mar- ried Hermann Jakob Bicker. Issue
7. Anna Henrietta Achelis, born in 1801; died in 1856; married, in 1827, Rev. Thomas Ulrichs.
8. Marie Elisabeth Achelis, born in 1802; died in 1877. Issue, by second wife, all born in Bremen:
9. Thomas Achelis, born in 1804; died in 1805.
10. Anna Margaretha (Meta), Achelis, born October 6, 1805; died February 16, 1888; married, in 1832, Carl Bartholomaus Ulrichs, of Bremen.
11. Peter Achelis, born December 14, 1806; died De- cember 8, 1881, unmarried.
12. THOMAS ACHELIS, of whom below:
13. Elisabeth (Elsie) Achelis, born March 18, 1809; died July 9, 1883.
14. Johann Justus Achelis, born March 21, 1811; died June 20, 1859; married, October 24, 1842; Elsie Harms. Issue, two children.
15. Rebekka Achelis, born in 1813; died in 1814.
16. Anna Adelheid Achelis, born in 1815; died in 1816.
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Thomas Achelis
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THOMAS ACHELIS, third son and fourth child of Thomas and Anna Adelheid (Wichelhausen) Achelis, was born in Bremen, October 22, 1807, and died in New York, March 24, 1872. His personal trait of character were simi- lar to those of his father. He grew up happily with his many brothers and sisters and in the intimate association of cousins of his own age.
He decided to enter a mercantile career and came to - New York in 1833, where he entered the business of his uncle, Peter Wilchelhausen. In 1843, he joined his future brother-in-law, Frederick Vietor, founding the firm of Frederick Vietor & Achelis. Previously Frederick Vietor in 1828 had gone into business with Graebe & Company, which later became Vietor & Graebe and then Frederick Vietor & Achelis.
The name of Thomas Achelis is found in the Brooklyn City Directory for the first time in 1839, when he is listed as "merchant, Atlantic near Henry." From 1841 to 1846 his home is listed as Pacific near Clinton, and in 1847 as "18 . Pacific." From 1848 to 1852 his name is omitted, these being the years when he and his family lived in Bremen. Begin- ning with 1853, his home is listed almost continuously un- til 1870 as "175 Henry," but in 1871 it appears as "275 Henry,"evidently a printing or recording error, as the family home, as long as it was on Henry Street was al- ways at 175. This error is continued also for a few years after 1871, for in 1872, the listing reads: "T. Achelis, widow,
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275 Henry," and "Frederick, 275 Henry." In 1873, the two of the Achelis name are Frederick, dry goods, and Thomas, hosiery, both of 66 Leonard, New York, with home at 275 Henry. Mr. Achelis' business address, for the first few years, is simply given as "New York." Beginning with 1853, it is listed as folliws: 1853, merchant, New York: 1854, merchant 50 Broad, New York; 1855, importer, 50 Broad, New York; 1856 and 1857, dry goods, 170 Fulton, New York; 1858, dry goods, 172 Fulton, New York; 1859, dry goods, 1861, merchant, 118 Duane, New York; 1864, dry goods, 118 Duane, New York. In 1867 appear Thomas Achelis, hosiery, and Thomas Achelis, Jr. hosiery. In 1868 are listed Thomas Achelis, cloth, New York, Thomas, Jr., clerk, and Frederic, clerk. In 1869 the only entry is Thomas Achelis, merchant. In 1870 there is listed only Thomas Achelis, merchant, 118 Duane, New York; the only 1871 entry is Thomas Achelis, merchant, 66 Leonard, New York.
A refined, noble nature, together with great simplicity, a polite humor, strictest probity, and unlimited faith in God were the outstanding qualities of his character; he set his family and friends a noteworthy example of happy Christian faith. Just as his father had brought the name of Thomas Achelis to great honor in Bremen, so did the son in New York. During the summer after his death one of his nieces by chance met Professor Dr. Schaff of New York University. As soon as he heard that she had lived for several years in the home of her uncle, Thomas Achelis, in Brooklyn, he exclaimed in great animation: "Da muss ich Ihnen die Hand drucken, Sie waren bei einem Ehren-
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"manne." (I must press your hand, you lived in the home of a man of honor.)
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From 1849 to 1853 Mr. Achelis and his family lived in Bremen, his native city, for reasons of business. Mr. Åchelis' partner, Mr. Vietor, had permanently settled in Bremen, but for these four years changed with Mr. Achelis and took the latter's place in the New York business. Dur- ing their stay in Bremen Mr. and Mrs. Achelis lived at No. 13 Kohlhokerstrasse. Again in 1862, he brought his wife and children on a brief visit to Bremen. In 1870 after sev- eral of his children had already left the paternal roof, he paid his last visit to his native city with his wife and youngest daughter. He accompanied first his eldest daughter, Marie, to Italy, and from there she and her hus- band, Johann Smidt, went to India. The rest of that year he spent in Bremen, seeing a great deal of relatives and friends. During the following year (1871) he, his wife and daughter returned to New York, where he had the joy of learning of the birth of a grandchild there, as well as of one in India, both of whom were named Thomas in his honor. He died suddenly of a throat malady in the Spring of 1872 at the age of sixty-five, deeply mourned by his family and a large number of friends and acquaintances, who greatly respected and esteemed him.
Married, March 5, 1840, in Bremen, Julie Rosine Hut- terott, daughter of Georg and Marie Karoline (Klocke or Glocke) Hutterott, who was born at Bremen, January 14, 1821 and died at Brooklyn, New York April 28, 1905. As a
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young girl of eighteen years, she came to the United States alone to visit her sister, Marie (Hutterott) Vietor, and dur- ing her visit met Thomas Achelis, her future husband. Julie was the only women passenger on a sailing vessel which took about forty five days to make the crossing. Her chil- . dren constantly marvelled at the fact that her parents ever permitted their young and pretty daughter to take this long trip alone.
Issue:
1. Thomas Achelis, born November 9, 1840; died, un- married, April 6, 1911.
2. George Achelis, born March 23, 1842; died October 21, 1933; married, in 1873, Mira Townsend. Issue, Jane Townsend Achelis.
3. FREDERICK (FRITZ) ACHELIS, of whom below.
4. Marie Achelis, born May 8, 1846; died February 25, 1925; married, in 1869, Johan Smidt. Issue.
5. Anna Margarete (Annie) Achelis, born June 17, 1847; died July 18, 1927; married, in 1869, George Freder- ick Vietor. Issue.
6. Johann (John) Achelis, born September 4, 1851; died May 25, 1932; married, September 17, 1884, Emmy Bockler. Issue:
i. Thomas Achelis, died May 3, 1929; married, Anne Mason. No issue.
ii. Emma Achelis, married, in 1906, Gardiner Hope Miller. Issue.
iii. JOHNFRITZ ACHELIS, married, in 1918, Louise Musgrove. Issue, John (Jack) Achelis and Louise Achelis. Refer to page 72.
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iv. George Theodore Achelis, died April 23, 1920; married, in 1919, Grace Parker. Issue, Joan Achelis.
v. Dorothy Julie Achelis, married, in 1932, George Edward Werleman. Issue.
7. Julie Achelis, born October 11, 1853; died July 18, 1935; married, in 1878, William Spies. Issue.
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FREDERICK (FRITZ) ACHELIS, third son and child of Thomas and Julie Rosine (Hutterott) Achelis, was born on Pacific Street, Brooklyn, New York, June 1, 1843, and died in New York City, December 23, 1924.
Mr. Achelis was educated in a private school and at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Upon the completion of his studies, he went to the traditional home of the family in Bremen to serve an apprenticeship of four years in general mercantile methods with the firm of Anton Papen- diek, after which he returned to the United States. As a result of this training, he was able to assume immediately important responsibilities in his father's business and in 1872 was admitted to partnership in the firm of Frederick Vietor and Achelis, while still a young man. He continued with this concern until 1881, when he entered the rubber industry and jointed the India Hard Rubber Comb Com- pany, with its factory at College Point, Long Island, upon the retirement from active business of his father-in-law, Fritz Konig.
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Mr. Achelis recognized the great possibilities for ex- · pansion in this field as the result of industrial and tech- . nological progress and in 1882 became president of the India Hard Rubber Comb Company, which he had pur- chased from his father-in-law. In 1898 this company merged with the Butler Hard Rubber Company at Butler, New Jersey, and the Hard Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, forming the American Hard Rubber Company, of
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New York. Mr. Achelis was elected president of the new corporation, continuing as such until his death twenty-six years later. He directed his affairs with sure hand along the pathway of success, building up a large and very effective organization. He was a gifted executive and or- ganizer, whose accomplishments won him wide respect and whose varied civic interests reflected his fine public spirits.
In October, 1901, he moved with his family from Brook- lyn, New York, to New York City and had his home first at No. 9 East Fifty-Seventh Street, and later at No. 550 Park Avenue, where he died. Every summer he resided at his country home, 'Riverfields," in Rumson, Seabright, New Jersey.
Mr. Achelis was active in many phases of New York life. He was a patron of music and art and a generous contributor to worthy civic and charitable enterprises. For a number of years he was president of the Lenox Hill Hos- pital, and his leadership was a decisive factor in its de- velopment and progress. During the World War he loyally supported the Government's effort to supply base hospitals and personally donated $25,000 to organize and equip the first base hospital unit for the United States Army after this country entered the war. He was active also in other organized movements of the period. Many charities bene- fited through his continued interest in their work and re- ceived handsome donations both in his lifetime and under the terms of his will. Mr. Achelis was very fond of music
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and regularly attended opera and concert performances in New York City. He also possessed a discriminating knowledge of art and was known as an enthusiastic and keenly discerning collector of etchings. Music and art were his principal diversions, together with such outdoor sports and recreations as golf and riding. He was preeminently a family man, and his club affiliation were not numerous. His clubs were the Merchants Club, The Rumson Country Club of New Jersey, and the Sleepy Hollow Club, West- chester County, N. Y. He was a Republican in politics and a member of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City.
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Like practically all members of the Achelis family, Fritz Achelis had a very strong sense of family solidarity. After the end of the World War he resumed friendly contacts with other members of the family in Germany and during the difficult years of the post-war period in that country he gave many proofs of his desire to be of assistance. Ät various times in 1922 he sent shipments of food and deli- cacies to Germany. Several of these were addressed to one of his realtives, Professor Dr. Hans Achelis, of the Uni- versity of Leipzig, who generously shared them with sev- eral groups of students.
Mr. Achelis also greatly treasured several old family portraits, which he had inherited from his father. Accord- ing to family tradition, Mr. Achelis' father, Thomas Achelis, brough with him, at the time he left his native Bremen in 1833 to found a new home in New York, the oil paintings
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of his parents. Another family heirloom, treasured by Fritz Achelis, was the family coat-of-arms, in connection with which he adopted the motto "Thue Recht und scheue Niemand." (Do right and fear no one.)
Although Mr. Åchelis died in his eighty-second year, he was active until the last and continued his interests which so long had distinguished his useful and honorable career. In 1925, Frederick George (Fritz) Achelis presented to Yale University, his father's collection of etchings by Rembrandt and Durer as a memorial to his interest in art and to the enthusiasm with which he had pursued it. He left behind him, however, many other monuments, equally fine, in the institutions which he aided and in the hearts of those who were privileged to know him as a friend.
Married, July 4, 1878, Bertha Franziska Konig, daughter of Fredrich Wilhelm (Fritz) and Johanna Alette (Cramer) Konig. She was born on State Street, Brooklyn, New York, August 10, 1855, and died at Lake Placid, New York, Sep- tember 20, 1921. Mrs. Achelis fully shared the many civic, cultural, and benevolent interest of her husband. She was especially devoted to the welfare of Lenox Hill Hospital, to which she gave, jointly with her husband, a nurses' school and home. She was also for many years a vice- president and a generous supporter of the Young Women's Christian Association. Prior to the adoption of the Nine- teenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving nation-wide suffrage to women, she was very ac- tive in the movement against this step, serving as vice-
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president of an organization headed by Mrs. Arthur Dodge. Her opposition was to the idea of universal suffrage for either men or women, because she felt that suffrage should not be granted to those who did not possess the necessary civic responsibility or who had not lived in this country long enough to become attuned to its customs and to the principles on which its Constitution and Government are based. Her death was deeply regretted and sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends. She was buried in Kenisco Cemetery, where the family has a plot.
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1. Julie Margaret Achelis, twin, married in New York, September 18, 1919, Frederick Arendale Sansome, of California. Mr. Sansome graduated Military Gov- ernment School, Charlotte, Va., August 1943, as Major, A.U.S. - A.C.C. Issue: David M. Sansome, Commissioned 2nd Lt. of the Army Air Force Flight School, Turner Field, Albany Ga., April 15, 1944. 2. ELISABETH ACHELIS, of whom below, twin to Julie Margaret.
3. Bertha Dorothea Achelis, died September 15, 1881.
4. FREDERIC GEORGE (FRITZ) ACHELIS, of whom below.
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Elisabeth Achelis
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ELISABETH ACHELIS, known in her youth as Elisabeth A. Ächelis, and after her parents' death as Elisabeth Åchelis, daughter of Frederick (Fritz) and Bertha Fran- ziska'(Konig) Achelis, was born with her twin sister, Mar- garet, at No. 52 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New York. They both attended the Brooklyn Heights Seminary and the Ogontz School in Pennsylvania, graduating from neither school. They resided with their parents and with them moved to Manhattan in 1901. During the World War, Elisa- beth Achelis entered the Red Cross service, taking a course in surgical dressing, but later joined the Home Service Division as a volunteer visitor, in which capacity she served until June 1, 1919. In the autumn of the same year her sister married Frederick Arendale Sansome, of · Oakland, California, while she remained with her parents until their death. Like her parents, she has a strong feeling for family solidarity.
In the autumn of 1929, she became interested in the calendar reform movement and in October of the follow- ing year The World Calendar Association, Inc. was or- ganized, of which she became President.
Miss Achelis believed that the adoption of The World Calendar, global in outook and in application, will exer- cise a potent influence working for greater world har- mony, cooperation and amity in the realm of time-reckon- ing. "Time that 'takes survey of all the world' should it- self be one and the same for all the world."
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The Association advocates the perpetual World Cal- endar of 12 months and equal quarters; the quarters are divided into even 91 days, or 13 weeks, or 3 months; and the months are arranged in 31-30-30 days, each month having 26 weekdays plus Sundays. All the time-units agree at the end of every quarter-year thereby achieving perfect coordination.
To complete the year and make the calendar perpet- ual, every year the same, the 365th day is placed on an extra Saturday following Saturday, December 30. It is a new World Holiday, dated December W. The old leap- year day, February 29, becomes another World Holiday, placed on another extra Saturday that follows Saturday, June 30, and dated June W. The two new World Holi- days are the stabilizing days of the calendar, by which the confusion of the old calendar gives way to order, the unreasonable changeability to stability.
In 1931 Miss Achelis attended the Preparatory Com- mittee Meeting and the International Calendar Confer- ence held at the League of Nations in Geneva, and ex- perienced the satisfaction of seeing the proposed 13-month calendar, each month of even 28 days and four weeks, checkmated in its march. Of the more than 500 calendar plans submitted, the 13-month and The World Calandars were chosen for further study and consideration.
Six years later, in 1937, the League of Nations sub- mitted the Chilean Draft resolution for The World Cal- endar to all Member and Non-Member Nations with the
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result that out of 45 replies received: 14 approved it, 6 re- jected all calendar reform, 8 made no observations, 10 were unprepared, and 7 considered the time premature. Apprehensive of darkening clouds of war, the League took no further action.
The World Calendar Association continued to carry on its work so that in 1944 there is increasing evidence every- where of the need for this new and better civil calendar, and its adoption is inevitable. The best time for adopting The World Calendar would be when the old and the new calendars agree; such as Saturday, December 30, 1944. Then the old December 31 becomes the new December W, an extra Saturday, and the new year, would begin on Sunday, January Ist. Should the 1945 adoption be im- possible it is important to note that the last four months of 1944 in both the present and the proposed calendars are the same. An exceptional opportunity is thus offered to test the merits of The World Calendar by using the last four months in 1944 as a basis of comparison for the same periods in the Gregorian Calendar of 1943 and 1945. Then in 1947 which is a pre-presidential election year official approval should be obtained, utilizing the following three years for every one to get their affairs in order for adop- tion in 1950 when again both calendars agree Sunday, January 1.
It is being recognized that a new civil calendar -- equal and ordered in arrangement, wherein days and dates al-
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ways agree and holidays always fall on the same day and date - belongs to the new world and era. Busi- ness, labor, agriculture, finance, education, home, law, and science, all are taking an active interest toward its adoption.
Miss Achelis writes for the "Journal of Calendar Re- form," a quarterly published by The World Calendar As- sociation, and other magazines. She is also the author of "The World Calendar," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937, and "The Calendar for Everybody," published by the same house, 1943. Quoting from her last book:
"The calendar should grow up and develop as gen- erations do, and therefore should have the right to be changed and improved, better to serve every one of us. the orderly and beautifully symmetrical World Calendar 'the very best, with all conditions considered' will truly be a friendly Federation of Time and as such aid the world in ultimately achieving a friendly Federa- tion of Nations."
The 1944 Calendar Unbalanced, Irregular, Unsettled
FIRST QUARTER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
SMT WTF S SMTWTFS
SMTWTFS
1
.. 1234 5
.. . .. 1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 15 17 18 19 |12 13 14 15 16 17 18
16 17 13 19 20 21 22
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ··
27 28 29 · · ··
.. .
26 27 28 29 30 31 -
29 39 31
126 27 28 29 30
SECOND QUARTER
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T FS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4
1 2
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11| 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 15 17 18 19 20 21 | 12 13 14 15 15 17 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 2 23 24 251 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
29 30 31
26 27 28 29 30
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
THIRD QUARTER
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
S M T W/ T F S S M T WTF S SMT WTFS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 234
1 Z
9 9 10 11 12 13 141 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 |12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31
24 25 26 27 29 29 30
FOURTH QUARTER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
S M T W T F S S M T W Y F S S M T WY FS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
12 34
1 2
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
3 4 5 6 78 5
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
29 30 31
26 27 28 29 30
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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. A WORLD HOLIDAY, DECEMBER W, the Year-End Day,
an extra Saturday, follows December 3Och every year.
** A WORLD HOLIDAY, JUNE W, the Leap-Year Day,
another estro Saturday, follows June 30th in leap years.
Days, weeks, months and quar- ters are constantly shifting . . .
THE WORLD CALENDAR Balanced, Regular, Perpetual
FIRST QUARTER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWINS
123 4 5 6 7
1 23 4
1 2
# 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 € 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 |17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 301
SECOND QUARTER
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
S M T W TFS
1
** 1 2 3 4 5 6 .. ..
.. 1 2 3
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 6 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15: 14 15 16 17 19 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 17 18 19 20 21 22; 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 |18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 24 25 26 27 28 29| 23 29 30 31 ·· ·· ·· 25 26 27 28 29 30 - 30 ..
THIRD QUARTER
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTF S
2 3 4 5678
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 19 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 -. .. .. .
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FOURTH QUARTER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
S M T W T F S S M T W T F SS MT WTFS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4
1 2
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 : 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 29 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
29 30 31 -* **
· 26 27 28 29 30 · · · · | 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 -
1
...
1 2 3 4 5 ..
1
27 28 29 30 31 ·· ·· 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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"OUR STABILITY IS BUT BALANCE" -- Robert Bridges
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The World Calendar Association, Inc. Elisabeth Achelis Emerson Brewer Director President
Charles S. Mcveigh Vice-President
Harriet A. Lillie Secretary-Treasurer
American Advisory Committee
William H. Barton, Jr.
Bishop William T. Manning .
Henry W. Bearce
Hon. Dave H. Morris
Mrs. Vera Beggs Conway
Prof. William Starr Myers
Dr. Clara B. Burdette
Dr. L. S. Rowe
Mrs. Frederick H. Clausen
Howard C. Smith
Capt. J. F. Hellweg, U.S.N. (Ret.)
Bishop Ernest M. Stires
Mrs. Gustav Ketterer
Julius F. Stone
Mrs. Rowland H. Latham
Rabbi Martin M. Weitz
Rev. Henry Smith Leiper, D. D.
P. W. Wilson
Dr. Mary E. Woolley
Foreign Advisory Committee
Admiral José Guisasola, Argentina Dr. Eugene Delporte, Belgium
Abraham Frowein, Germany
Athanase Politis, Greece
Rear Admiral Radler de Aquino, Brazil
E. Keith Eason, Ireland
Lt .- Col. J. Murray Muir, Canada
Amedeo Giannini, Italy
Prof. Alberto Cumming, Chile
Dr. Joaquin Gallo, Mexico
R. P. Eugenio V. Rosso, S.S., Chile
Dr. Ch'ing-Sung Yü, China
Juan Rivera Reyes, Panama Luis Montero y Tirado, Peru
R. P. Mariano Gutierrez Lanza, S. J., Cuba Dr. Herbert Blume, Danzig Barney N. Morgan, Dominican Republic
Raymond Mage, Switzerland
· Dr. M. I. Dereoglu, Turkey
Edgar J. Anzola, Venezuela
Lord Desborough, England C. David Stelling, England
R. P. Antonio Romañá, S.J., Spain Rt. Hon. H. L. F. Lagercrantz, Sweden
Paul-Louis Hervier, France
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Among the many and varied endorsers of The World Calendar a few are listed below:
Chambers of Commerce
London, British and Empire, New York State, St. Louis, Galveston, Pittsburgh, Chicago Association of Commerce.
Science
International Astronomical Union, Commission 32, National Academy of Sciences rescinds 1929 resolu- · tion endorsing 13-month calendar, American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, Mathemati- cal Association of America, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amerian Psychological Association.
Education
National Education Association, World Federation of Education Associations.
Women's Clubs
General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
Labor
Labor Conference of American States at Santiago, Chile, 1936, International Labor Organization in res- olution refers to The World Calendar and requests League of Nations to study the question further.
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Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary Clubs
Many have endorsed it, many are studying it.
Athletics
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States.
Insurance
Presidents Section of the National Fraternal Con- ·gress of America, Fraternal Congresses of the State of Washington, of New England, of Canada, etc.
Individuals
James Truslow Adams
Dr. James Rowland Angell Dr. Jules Bogen
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt
Dr. Robert A. Millikan
Stuart Chase
Walter Mitchell, Jr.
Dr. R. H. Coats
Dr. Julian Morgenstern
Frederic A. Delano
William Allan Neilson
Dr. John Dewey
Mrs. C. Reinold Noyes
Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar
Frank E. Noyes
Gano Dunn
Rev. Valentin Panzarasa
P. S. DuPont
Dr. James Stokley
Sisto Sosa, Bishop of Cumana, Venuezuela
Dr. H. Spencer-Jones, Royal Astronomer
Dr. Robert Sproul
Dr. Harlan T. Stetson
Gerard Swope Louis J. Taber
Honorable Harry S. Truman George Verity
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Samuel Grafton Dr. Arthur Harding
Ira Hirschmann
Dr. Dugald C. Jackson
Arthur C. Kaufmann John Kieran Oswald W. Knauth M. Albert Linton Isador Lubin
Dr. Henry Noble MacCraken
Dean John T. Madden
Dr. Clyde R. Miller
Frederic George SAchilis
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FREDERIC GEORGE (FRITZ) ACHELIS, only son and youngest child of Frederick (Fritz) and Bertha (Konig) Achelis, was born at No. 86 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, New York, March 14, 1885, and died at Greenwich, Con- necticut, September 18, 1926.
He prepared for college at the Polytechnic Institute of . Brooklyn and the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and in 1903 entered Yale College, New Haven, Connecti- cut, from which he was graduated in 1907. He became an officer in the American Hard Rubber Company, of which his father was president, and in 1910 was elected a direc- tor. At the death of his father he succeeded him as presi- ent in 1925.
During the World War, Mr. Achelis registered in the . selected draft, but because he was a family man with an infant, was exempt from active service. He was chairman, however, of the Hard Rubber Division, American War Work Campaign, to raise $170,500,000 for men in service, also chairman of the Hard Rubber Division of the Rubber Association of the Fourth Liberty Loan Committee, and vice-chairman of the Hard Rubber War Service Committee.
In 1919 he left New York City to reside in Greenwich, Connecticut, in order to give his children the benefit of country air and life.
Married, in New York City, April 9, 1913, Helen Bruff, daughter of William Jenkins and Edith Mary (Haynes) Bruff; she was born at No. 12 South Portland Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, February 28, 1888.
Issue:
1. Audrey Achelis, married Frank Hinchman, Platt II, July 15, 1939. In January, 1942, Mr. Platt II entered the U.S.A., Artillery Division as Ist Lt. and has since been made Captain.
2. FREDERIC ACHELIS, of whom below.
3. Gertrude Achelis, born Oct. 8, 1923. .
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Lieutenant FREDERIC ACHELIS, U.S.N.R., only son and second child of Frederic George and Helen (Bruff) Achelis, born in New York City, 1919. He attended the Greenwich Country Day School at Greenwich, Connec- ticut, and graduated from the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1937. He is a graduate of Yale Univer- sity, class 1941. Immediately after graduation he enlisted as Ensign in the U.S.N.R., entering the Navy Supply Corps School at Harvard, Cambridge, from which he graduated in September of the same year.
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JOHNFRITZ, son of Johann (John) and Emmy (Bockler) Achilis, was born in Shrewsbury Town- ship (now Rumson), New Jersey, August 6, 1890. He was graduated from Yale College in 1913, and then entered the employ of Fred'k Vietor & Achelis. He served his apprenticeship in their office at No. 96 Spring Street, New York City, and in Lyons, France, where he was staying at the outbreak of the World War. In 1916 he served six months at the border in Troop A, Squadron A, New York National Guard. In May 1917, he attended the first Plattsburg camp, from which he was graduated as a first lieutenant of field artillery. He went overseas September 6, 1917, on the second convoy and attended the artillery schools at Fontainebleau and Somme, after which he joined the First Division, American Expeditionary Forces. After three months with the 6th Field Artillery Headquarters Company he was transferred to Battery C, 7th Field Artillery, and served with them to the end of June, 1918. Returning to this country, he became instructor at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Alabama. After the armis- tice he returned to New York, and in 1920 became a part- ner of Fred'k Vietor & Achelis. He continued in the part- nership, until the firm was incorporated in 1927 when he became its secretary. In 1929 the corporation was merged with Peierls, Buhler & Company and Schefer, Schramm & Vogel under the name of Commercial Factors Corpora- tion, whereupon he became executive vice-president of the new company, and on May 1, 1934, was made its presi- dent. In 1926 with a group of his friends he started the Rumson School, of which he became president.
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Johnfritz Achelis married, at Anniston, Alabama, No- vember 2, 1918, Louise Musgrove, of Anniston, Alabama, daughter of J. Coleman and Susan (Neale) Musgrove. Her father was born in October, 1865, at Jasper, Alabama, and died about 1910. Her mother, who was born at George- town, Kentucky, January 20, 1879, married (second), about 1912, William H. McKelroy, of Anniston, Alabama. Children of Johnfritz and Louise (Musgrove) Achelis:
a. JOHN (JACK), of whom below.
b. Louise, born in New York City, October 21, 1922. Refer to page 38.
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SERGEANT JOHN (JACK) ACHELIS, U.S.A. - O.S.S., only son and elder child of Johnfritz and Louise (Mus- grove) Achelis, born in New York City. He attended the Rumson School of New Jersey and the Taft School of Connecticut.
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