Edward J. Weisinger
Edward Weisinger and Gladys Finley were married around 1923.
THE WEISINGERS - 1850 ...
Looking Back: Fred & Louise Vilard Weisinger
My great-grandfather, Fred Weisinger supported his family working as a lithographer (involved in the printing process, particularly newspapers, advertisements, etc). He was born in May 1856 in New York. Both his parents were born in Germany. His wife, Louise Vilard Weisinger was born in January of 1862, also in New York. Her mother and father were born in France. Fred Weisinger and Louise Villard were married in 1880.
In 1900 they lived at 478 Central Avenue in Brooklyn with their nine children.
Frances Weisinger (19), was employed as a clerk. She was unemployed for three months in 1899.
Marie Weisinger (17), worked as an assistant lithographer. She was out of work for one month in 1899.
Brother Alexander Weisinger (15), worked for a florist and worked 12 months in 1899.
Frederick R. Weisinger (13), Louise Weisinger (12), and Felix (7), attended school 10 months out of the year.
John (5), Harry (3), and Margarette Weisinger (1), were not yet enrolled in school.
A child born between 1887 and 1892 did not survive. Two more would be born later; Edward J. (my grandfather) and Louis.
By 1910 the Weisingers had moved to 2048 Bergen Street in Brooklyn. Fred, now tile setting floors, and wife Louise increased the number of children to eleven with the birth of Edward in 1901 and Louis in 1903. After 1903 there was yet another child that did not survive. Young Frederick, now 23, worked as a lithograph apprentice. Frances, Marie, and Alexander had moved on. Felix, John, Harry, Margarette, Edward and Louis attended school.
In 1907 Alexander married. He and his wife Mary E. lived at 39 Somers Street in Brooklyn.
There were a lot of changes between 1910 and 1920. By the 1920 Federal Census the Weisinger family had dwindled to five living at home. Fred had died, leaving Louise 58, widowed with the four remaining offspring living at 2053 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn where they rented.
Felix 26, was an electrician working for the electric company.
John 24, worked as a steamfitter (plumber) for a building company.
Harry 22, was a clerk for a steel trust company.
Louis 16, was a clerk-machinist for an assembling company.
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Edward 19, served in the military during WWI. He was discharged from the US Army at Mt. Upton, NY in May of 1919. He married Gladys Ann Finley in 1923.
Meanwhile, records show Alexander and his wife Mary were living at 39 Somers Street, a three family structure, with a daughter Novillia 3, (b: 1917) and a son Alexander 1, (b: 1919). He was a tile setter (floor installations).
By 1930 Louise Vilard Weisinger was 68 years old and living at 110-17 Jamaica Avenue, Richmond Hill, Queens, with her son Harry. Harry, at 33, was still a clerk at a trust company. He paid the rent at the $35 per month apartment and they had a radio, a sign of the times.
Louis, the youngest of the Weisinger’s seven boys, married in 1923 when he was 21 years old. He married wife Jeanie when she was 17. They lived together at 346 Park Avenue, Hempstead, Nassau County, with their children Millard L. 6, and Frances L. 4. The rent was $30 per month and they had no radio. Louis was a bricklayer for a burial company.
Alexander, the oldest of the boys, and Mary Weisinger were now living at 35 Somers Street in Brooklyn where they paid rent of $21 per month and had a radio. They now had four children with the addition of Lorraine 8, (b: 1922) and Beatrice 7, (b: 1923). Novillia and Alexander were now 13 and 11 years old. The elder Alexander Weisinger 45, still installed tiles for a living.
Edward Weisinger was 29 years old in 1930, married for seven years to Gladys Ann Finley, then 24, and lived at 22 Covert Avenue with their three children Lucille A. 6, Dolores 4, and Edward 1. He made a living as a truck driver for a cleaning company. The rent at the Brooklyn address was $37 and they had a radio.
Also living at the address was Gladys’ three brothers:
Harry Finley 28, was a machine operator at a book binary. Fred Finley 26, was a diamond setter at a jewelry factory. And George Finley 22, was a bookkeeper on a steamship.
Felix 37, and John Weisinger 36, both lived on Lee Avenue in Brooklyn and owned separate homes. They were neighbors living side by side. Felix and his wife Lucille 34, owned their house and it was valued at $5,000. They were married in 1923. He was an electrician on houses. Felix was a WWI veteran.
John married Selma Kizer (Kaiser?) in 1922. They lived next door to Felix and Lucille with her father Sam Kizer 77. They owned the house valued at $4,000. John was a plumber and Selma worked at a dress factory. Both Felix and John had a radio. Neither families had children.
Sam Kizer, a widower (b:1853), was born in Brooklyn. His parents were born in Germany.
There’s no sign of young Frederick R. Weisinger in 1930. He would have been 43 years old.
(Note: There is not adequate information to trace the elder Fred and Louise Weisinger daughters, Frances (b: Nov 1880), Marie (b: May 1883) and Margarette (b: Mar 1899) without their married names.)
1920s Photo of "The Gang" posing at the beach, (as my mother, Lucille Weisinger, described them). From left: Aunt Isabelle (Ella) Brown, my grandfather Edward J. Weisinger, Florence (Reynolds?), Frank Finley. Front row center, my grandmother Gladys Finley Weisinger.
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