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On April 15, 1894, in New York City, Samuel Wormser was married to Jennie Weil, daughter of Leopold and Sarah (Bloch) Weil. To Mr. and Mrs. Wormser were born two children, as follows: May, who was born on January 11, 1899; and Milton, whose birth occurred on July 1, 1901.
ABRAHAM WEINSTOCK-A few years after his arrival in this country Abraham Weinstock was listed among The Bronx successful business men. He was born October 4, 1882, in Warsaw, Poland, and was educated in the public schools and high school of that city. He came to the United States in 1904 at the age of twenty-two and engaged soon after in
the retail poultry trade. In 1919 he made the business a wholesale enterprise rather than a retail which it had been hitherto. It was at one time conducted in Harlem, but was removed to the busier Bronx and finally, about two years ago, to the building it now oc- cupies. Only live poultry is handled. The firm name is A. Weinstock & Son.
Mr. Weinstock is a member of the Warsawcher So- ciety and many other Jewish organizations, and is in- terested in the Hebrew Convalescent Home.
Mr. Weinstock was married, in Warsaw, in April, 1901, to Tillie Weinstock, daughter of Benjamin and Lena Weinstock. They are the parents of: 1. Paul, born January 22, 1903. He went into training for the great war at Sixty-first Street and Amsterdam Avenue in 1918, but was released by the signing of the Armistice; he is now in co-partnership with his father. 2. Sarah, was born January 16, 1909. 3. Rose, was born in May, 1911. 4. Joseph, born in June, 1912.
Mr. Weinstock and family reside at No. 180 St. Nicholas Avenue, and his business address is No. 260 East One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street, The Bronx.
SALVATORE OCCHIPINTI, president of the concern of S. Pinto, Incorporated, mason contractors in The Bronx, is one of the charter members of the Building Industry League recently organized in that borough and well known in the trade. He is a son of Anthony and Lucy Occhipinti, the father a mer- chant who died in Italy in 1899, the mother now liv- ing in The Bronx with her son.
Salvatore Occhipinti was born in Palermo, Italy, in 1891, and came to the United States in 1904 at the age of thirteen. He attended Harlem Public School on East One Hundred and Tenth Street, and then en- tered the employ of a mason contracting firm. After a number of years in this field he started in business for himself in The Bronx in 1920 and the firm was incorporated in 1925, having meantime built up a substantial trade. He is a member of the Building In- dustry League of The Bronx.
Salvatore Occhipinti married, in New York City, December 25, 1915, Frances Lasalla, daughter of Frank Lasalla and they have two children: Erminia, and Rose.
MORRIS BOGDANOFF-To the continued ma- terial upbuilding of The Bronx in the construction of some of the most substantial of its homes and busi- ness blocks, Morris Bogdanoff has been contributing during the period in which this section of the city has been experiencing the most of its remarkable growth, and the name and product of his realty con- cern are accounted a dependable factor both directly in building matters. and indirectly to the further es- tablishment of new business plans and the making of new homes in The Bronx.
Morris Bogdanoff, a son of Jacob Bogdanoff, who was born in Loew, province of Minsk, Russia, and Ida (Jaffe) Bogdanoff, was born May 1, 1887, in Loew, where he attended the local district and high schools. When he was fifteen years old, he began work, serv- ing an apprenticeship in the carpenter's trade, and in his two and a half years therewith he lay the founda-
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tion of his successful career. In 1906 Mr. Bogdan- off came to the United States, and settling at the east side of Manhattan, in New York City, he there fol- lowed his trade until 1909, when he removed to The Bronx. He then entered upon the contracting busi- ness on his own account, at first in the general line of overhauling and repairing work, afterwards launch- ing out in the construction of apartment buildings. In 1912 he established himself as a builder and a realty operator, and he continues prosperously in his share of the great upbuilding of The Bronx, with his offices at No. 645 East Tremont Avenue, and his residence at No. 2777 Pond Place.
Fraternally, Mr. Bogdanoff is affiliated with the Order of the Modern Woodmen of America; and he is also a member of the Fellowship Club of The Bronx; Federated Jewish Charities; Jewish Folks School of The Bronx; and the Young Men's Hebrew Association.
Morris Bogdanoff married, in November, 1910, in New York City, Nettie Greenstein, daughter of Bor- is and Esther Greenstein, both natives of Kamenetz, province of Podolsk, Russia. Their children are: Es- ther, born August 1, 1911; David, born November 10, 1912; and Doris, born in 1921.
LOUIS MAURICE WEISS-In the real estate brokerage business of Louis M. Weiss and Company, of which Louis Maurice Weiss is the president, Mr. Weiss has won both prosperity and popularity through able management of an enterprise that he has established and whose plans he has developed in The Bronx, of which he has been a resident since 1908. He is a son of Max and Nettie Weiss, his father a native of Austria, and coming to the United States when he was twelve years old, to engage in the professions of Optometry and Chiropractics on East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street.
Louis Maurice Weiss was born June 11, 1900, in New York City, where he attended the public schools. He was afterwards graduated from the New York College of Dentistry, and from the Carver Chiro- practic College, and was then engaged for two years as an assistant with Dr. Bloom. In 1923, he estab- lished himself in the real estate business, and he has been a year at the present address, No. 368 East One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street, where he con- fines his activities to brokerage, except for sub- division in Westchester County.
Mr. Weiss received his first call to service in the World War at the signing of the Armistice. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi Fraternity, the New York Chiropractors Society, the Carver Alumni As- sociation, and the Wyona Club.
DANIEL MacLEAN-For nearly three decades Daniel MacLean has been engaged in the embalm- ing and funeral directing business in The Bronx, and since 1924, he has been located at No. 105 West Tremont Avenue, where he has a spacious house which includes his home and his funeral parlor, af- fording most ideal accommodations for his business. Mr. MacLean is a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, but has been a resident of the States since he was twenty-one years of age. His long experience in the embalming and funeral directing business has
enabled him to give the best possible service, and he is taking care of a large and growing patronage.
John MacLean, father of Daniel Maclean, was born in Harris, Scotland, in 1835, and died January 16, 1913, in his seventy-eighth year. He was reared in Scotland and came to Middle River, Victoria County, Nova Scotia, where he was engaged in farming for many years, and where he was highly respected by his associates. He married Norah MacAulay, who was born in Harris, Scotland, in 1827, and who died in 1905, aged seventy-seven years. Among their children was Daniel, of further mention.
Daniel MacLean was born in Middle River, Vic- toria County, Nova Scotia, June 22, 1866, and re- ceived his education in the public school in Middle River, later attending Baddeck High School, in Baddeck, for one term. When he was twenty-one years of age he left Nova Scotia and came to the States, locating first in Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained for only six months. At the end of that time he removed to New Rochelle, New York, where he entered the employ of William B. Kendall of the New York Stock Exchange, who introduced him to a cousin, James H. Beals, the well-known newspaper publisher, who was a leading member of the Church of the Puritans, No. 15 West One Hun- dred and Thirtieth Street. Mr. Beals secured Mr. MacLean's appointment as sexton of the church, a position which he most efficiently filled for a period of thirty-two years. Meantime, while still serving as sexton, Mr. MacLean, in 1898, established his undertaking business, locating first at No. 385 Lenox Avenue, near One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street, where he remained for five years and then moved to No. 29 West One Hundred and Twenty- eighth Street where he opened an office and funeral parlors and in this location he remained until 1924, when he purchased the spacious house located at No. 105 West Tremont Avenue, where his home and his funeral parlors are now located (1927). Mr. Mac- Lean is a thoroughly modern and scientific morti- cian, and has built up a very prosperous business. He is known for his skillful management of funeral services and for the quiet and unobstrusive way in which he relieves the families whom he serves of the details and the cares which become burdensome in the times of grief in which his services are needed. Each year has brought him new patrons and the volume of his business has steadily grown with the growth of the section of the city in which he lives.
Fraternally, Mr. MacLean is identified with Mon- itor Lodge, No. 582, Free and Accepted Masons, of The Bronx; with Clan MacDuff, No. 81, Order of the Scottish Clans; and he is also a member of the New York Scottish Celtic Society, the New York Caledonian Club, the Lewis Society, and the Ca- nadian Club. He is sexton of the Reformed Church of Harlem, located at the corner of One Hundred and Twenty-third Street and Lenox Avenue.
Daniel MacLean was married, in the rectory by Dr. Edward L. Clark, No. 29 West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street, New York City, April 4, 1893, to Marjorie Cameron Noble, who was born in Hard- wick, New Brunswick, daughter of John and Mar- garet (MacLean) Noble, both natives of New Bruns
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wick, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. MacLean are the par- ents of two children: 1. John Noble, born January 10, 1894; married May Raney, of Jewett City, Con- necticut, and they have three children: Marjorie Raney, Doris Parker, and John MacLean. 2. Nor- man Cameron, born September 14, 1896.
LOUISE MARIE (LARSEN) DAMM-Widely known throughout New York is the house moving business established by Fred Damm in association with his brother, Hans Christian Damm, and since 1921 conducted by his widow, Louise Marie Damm. For thirty-eight years this has been regarded as one of the stable concerns of the section of The Bronx, and has been called on to move such historic houses as that originally belonging to one of the Morrises in The Bronx; that of President Monroe in lower Lafayette Street, Manhattan; and that of President Henry Bruckner of the Borough of The Bronx, One Hundred and Sixty-first Street near Melrose Avenue. It was this concern, when The Bronx Parkway was first started, that moved ten houses on The Bronx driveway, Mr. Damm moving these houses and also the bridge at Mount Vernon. This was done to widen and beautify the Parkway. The skill and efficiency exemplified in the management of the busi- ness has always been reflected in the laborers em- ployed.
Louise Marie (Larsen) Damm was born in Fred- ericksborg, Denmark, September 16, 1876, daughter of Hans and Anna (Pedersen) Larsen. Her father, born in Annise, Denmark, in 1842, died in Fredericks- borg in 1898, and the mother, a native of the latter town, died there in 1892 at the age of forty-two.
The daughter was educated in the public and high schools of her native town, and came to the United States at the age of twenty, settling in The Bronx. Two years later came her marriage to Hans Chris- tian Damm, who had been a lieutenant in the Dan- ish Army and was a member of the Danish Society in America. His father, Ernest Hartwig Damm, and his mother, Severine (Kruse) Damm, both par- ents natives of Denmark.
The brother of Hans Christian Damm, Frederick Damm, had established the business of house mov- ing in 1888, in which his brother was associated with him. When the older member of the family died in 1910, the business was left to Hans Christian Damm, who conducted it until his death in 1921. Eight men are constantly employed. The establish- ment has progressed with its wonted smoothness under the management of Mrs. Damm and is now under that of her son, Leopold George Damm.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Damm: Hedvig Fredericka Nana Damm, born Sep- tember 8, 1899, married Nils Fisher, by whom she has a daughter, Louise Margaret Fisher, born April 13, 1923; Leopold George, born October 4, 1902, married Norah Ryan; Alfred Aage, born May 20, 1904; Oscar Peter Damm, born January 19, 1907; and George Emil, born July 10, 1910.
JOSEPH FOERST was born on August 27, 1867, in Druegendorf, near Bamberg, Bavaria, son of Joseph and Margaret (Muehlmichel) Foerst, both na- tives of Druegendorf, where they spent their entire
lives, his father passing away in his sixty-ninth year, his mother surviving until she had reached her eighty-sixth year.
He was educated in his native town, and came to the United States when he was sixteen years old. The amazing growth of New York City is illustrated by the fact that his first work after landing in New York was as a farm-hand for Mr. Hoeffner, whose farm was located at Morningside Avenue and One Hundred and Eighteenth Street. After a time, he went to Astoria, Long Island, and conducted a milk route for Mr. Hoeffner. Later, he worked in a grocery store at One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street and Amsterdam Avenue, then for two years for the Third Avenue Cable Company, and in 1888 he secured a position with the Younglings Brewery. He was there four years, and then he was ready to start on his own initiative. He has won success from the beginning. His first real estate office was located at No. 89 Lawrence Street, but in 1906 he moved his office to its present quarters in The Bronx. Mr. Foerst is a substantial holder of Bronx real estate, in the valuation of which he is an expert. He is the proprietor and owner of Wakefield Park Casino, which he established in 1906, and which formed the nucleus of his realty acquisitions in that section of The Bronx.
Mr. Foerst is a member of the Chippewa Demo- cratic Club of The Bronx, in which borough he makes his home. He also belongs to the New York Schuetzen Bund, No. 1; the Payerescher Jaeger, 'of New York; and the Steuben Society of The Bronx. Fraternally, he is identified with the G. D. Meinen Lodge, No. 595, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, of The Bronx.
In St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, on Feb- ruary 8, 1891, Joseph Foerst married Margaret Magengast, daughter of Anthony and Kunygunda (Brehm) Magengast, of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Foerst are the parents of six children: 1. Joseph John, born on November 19, 1892. 2. Mar- garet, born on November 7, 1894. 3. Barbara Rosa, born on December 18, 1898. 4. Marie Helen, born on April 24, 1905. 5. Michael Patrick, born on No- vember 13, 1907. 6. John, born on January 21, 1909.
EDWARD ERNEST McCOY-Coming here from Cleveland, Ohio, in 1920, as the representative of the Conrad-Baisch-Kroehle Company, Edward E. McCoy has firmly established himself in The Bronx, where he is the general manager and treasurer of the Conrad Furniture Company, a subsidiary of the Cleveland company. Edward Ernest McCoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 23, 1884, son of William Henry McCoy, who died in 1925, and of Alice Bertha McCoy, who died in 1891, his father a hardware merchant.
The early education of Edward E. McCoy was re- ceived in the public and high schools of Boston. He early entered business life, identifying himself with the Conrad-Baisch-Kroehle Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, giving them of the best of his services for thirteen years. When they decided to open a branch store in The Bronx, Mr. McCoy was made general manager of their new store. He is also a director of the Cleveland Company, a syndicate of eighteen
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stores and three factories. The company had in- tended establishing more stores in this section, but the death of A. J. Conrad, January 2, 1923, inter- rupted their expansion plans. On July 1, 1926, Mr. McCoy severed his connection with the Conrad Fur- niture Company and opened a new store under the name of Excel Furniture Company, at No. 61 West Fordham Road, carrying a complete stock of house furniture. Mr. McCoy is recognized as one of the progressive, enterprising, public-spirited citizens of The Bronx, where he is a member of The Board of Trade, and vice-president of the Fordham Merchants' Association, the chairman of their membership com- mittee. His fraternal affiliations are Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Senior Warden of Blue Lodge, No. 287; Crescent Chapter, Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Edward E. McCoy married, May 4, 1907, in Hornell, New York, Bertha Freeman, daughter of Fred Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy are the par- ents of two children, Ella Ardell and Grace. They are members of the Congregational Church, their residence being No. 65 West One Hundred and Ninety-second Street.
JULIUS OEHRLEIN-For more than two dec- ades The Bronx has been the scene of Mr. Oehr- lein's highly successful business activities, and as a result of the particular field which he had chosen for his work he has been an important factor in the de- velopment of The Bronx and especially in the erec- tion of many of its buildings. He was born in Ger- many, December 13, 1869, a son of Jacob and Mar- garet Oehrlein, both natives of Germany, his father being a farmer.
Julius Oehrlein was educated in the public schools of Germany, and at the age of twenty-one came to the United States alone in 1890. For the next three years he attended the night schools in New York City, working at the same time during the daytime as a mechanic, continuing in this capacity for a total of some thirteen years. In 1905 he established him- self in business in The Bronx, originally handling nothing but metal ceilings. The business, which met with marked success from its inception, gradually expanded, until in recent years all kinds of fire- proofing building materials have been added to its lines. In 1925 it was incorporated and since then has been conducted under the style of Julius Oehr- lein, Inc., with offices at No. 1883 Bathgate Avenue, The Bronx. Mr. Oehrlein, since the incorporation of his business, has been its president and has as- sociated with him his two elder sons, William J. Oehrlein and George Oehrlein. He has also erected several buildings on Bathgate Avenue, including those at Nos. 1836 to 1846, 1873 to 1883, 1921, 1924, and 1925. He is a member of Bronx Lodge, No. 871, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Wieland Lodge, No. 714, Free and Accepted Masons; The Bronx Board of Trade; New York Turn Verein; and Schnorer Club. In politics he is an Independent.
Mr. Oehrlein married, in New York City, April 14, 1895, Anna Dallinger, both of whose parents have died since her marriage to Mr. Oehrlein. Mr. and Mrs. Oehrlein are the parents of three children:
1. William J., born April 10, 1896, formerly a student of architecture and since finishing his studies as- sociated with his father in business. 2. George, born October 29, 1900, a graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, where he studied civil engineering, and like- wise associated with his father since leaving college. 3. Herbert J., born February 26, 1906, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The family home is located at No. 1840 Bathgate Avenue, The Bronx.
ARTHUR H. OESTERHELD-A business build- er of The Bronx, Arthur H. Oesterheld has attained a high place in the community, although he is a com- paratively young man. He was born in New York in October, 1886. His father, August M. Oester- held, was a lumber merchant in his later years, and his mother was Martha (Hahm) Oesterheld. They were natives of Germany. They came to this coun- try in 1880, and the father found employment in the lumber mills of the West. Success attended his efforts, and he was able to return to New York in 1892 with capital. In 1894 he engaged in the lumber business on his own account at One Hundred and Seventy-third Street and Third Avenue. His busi- ness prospered and he remained at its head until his death, which occurred in 1908.
Arthur H. Oesterheld was educated in the public and high schools of New York City. After his grad- uation from high school he took the course in City College before he joined his father in the manage- ment of his large and important lumber business. He became president of the company at his father's death, and its rapid expansion led him to move into larger quarters at No. 2001 Arthur Avenue where it has been conducted ever since. He is president and a director of A. M. Oesterheld & Son, Incor- porated, and president and a director of the Crotona Mill & Lumber Company, Incorporated. He is a member of the New York Lumber Trade and the Nylta Club of New York.
Mr. Oesterheld was married in June, 1910, in The Bronx, to Anna Ulrich, daughter of Eugene and Emily Ulrich, who are living in The Bronx. They are the parents of Arthur and Edwin Oesterheld. The business address of Mr. Oesterheld is No. 2001 Arthur Avenue, The Bronx; his house address is No. 35 Rosemore Avenue, Bronxville, New York.
WALTER E. BROWN-One of the most suc- cessful real estate brokers and appraisers of The Bronx is Walter .E. Brown, who for nearly half a century has been established in this line of activity. He first started his business career in connection with his father at Third Avenue and East One Hun- dred and Sixty-seventh Street in 1867, but for the past forty years his address has been No. 3428 Third Avenue, where he and his sons, with whom he is associated, own the building.
Walter E. Brown was born in New York City, August 12, 1855, and received his education in the Fifteenth Avenue School of South Brooklyn; Public School, Elmsford, Westchester County, New York; Eighty-seventh Street School, Yorkville; and Pub- lic School No 2, New York City, at One Hundred
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and Seventy-third Street and Third Avenue. After leaving school he was engaged for ten years in the wholesale hardware business, after which he became associated with his father, one of the foresighted pioneer realtors of The Bronx, under whose guidance he learned the salesmanship of property, and became a public-spirited citizen, eager to aid in any civic movement for the betterment of his community. He is a member of the Union Hospital of The Bronx, and having had a residence of fifty years in The Bronx, is a member of the Old Timers' Club. He and his family are members of the Fordham Manor Reformed Church.
Walter E. Brown married, October 9, 1884, in Rahway, New Jersey, Mary Louise Tingley, daugh- ter of George H. and Anna (Kidd) Tingley, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are the parents of five children, all living, as follows: 1. Robert T., associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. 2. Annie R., married James R. McLernon. 3. Georgie L., married Edward P. Hanyen. 4. Walter E., Jr., associated with his father in the real estate business. 5. Charles W., also associated with his father. The family residence is No. 3716 Black- stone Avenue, The Bronx.
JUDSON COOPER TRAVIS, after a long and varied career in many fields of endeavor, in all of which success attended his labors, is now applying the benefits of his wide and comprehensive experi- ence to the real estate building and contracting busi- ness in The Bronx. Mr. Travis was born in Vichers Ferry, Saratoga County, New York, February 16, 1865, a son of Abram and Elizabeth (Cooper) Tra- vis, both of whom are now deceased. The mother, Elizabeth (Cooper) Travis, was born in Sand Lake, near Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, in 1829, and died in 1902. The father, Abram Travis, was born in Middletown, Saratoga County, New York (post office known as Half Moon), in 1821, and died in 1889. In his younger days he was a carpenter and builder, and in his later years he became a suc- cessful merchant of Vischer Ferry, Saratoga County, New York.
Judson Cooper Travis began his educational train- ing in the public schools of Vischer Ferry and under the tutelage of Miss Dennis. His parents then moved to West Charlton, Saratoga County, where he attended the public school and was under the ex- pert instruction of James B. Alexander, a brother of the Rev. George Alexander, who was a well and widely known pastor of the University Presbyterian Church of New York City. His parents again moved, this time to Crescent, Saratoga County, where the son attended the Middletown graded school under Professor Schutz, and where he completed his scholastic training. He began work at the early age of fifteen years by entering the employ of Wil- liam H. Freer's (Troy, New York) Cash Bazaar, where he remained but a short time. He then went to work for Wilkinson, Jr., & Orr, Notions and Dry Goods Store, in Troy, and remained in the employ of this concern for two years. Upon his removal to Albany; New York, he was identified for six months with the leading merchandise house of John G. Meyers, and then secured a position with the well-
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