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Nutley, Cincinnati, and beyond [Part 3]

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Walter Sr. lived in Newark’s Ironbound District until he was 19, going to Barringer High School. He was only one of five children who went to high school, later graduating from Stevens Tech in 1911 with an engineering degree. [9] Instead of going into engineering, he got a position at an insurance company named Ocean Accident and Guarantee Insurance Co. where he met Katherine Ruth Weber. In May 1914, he married her and graduated from New York Law School in 1915 which helped him with drafting insurance contracts. In 1922, he used this knowledge to start his own insurance company  named Walter A Schaefer & Co., with an office in Newark until after World War II. Their business slogan was “You’re safer with Schaefer.” By the late 1920s and 1930s, Walter Sr. was president of the Casualty Underwriters Association, part of the Essex County Association of Insurance Agents. During World War II, Ruth and Walter served as air raid wardens. He later ran against a well-liked Republican named Fred Hartley, using his admiration of Lincoln, but he lost. [10] He served as senior citizen affairs adviser for a Democratic Senator named Carmen Orechio, started a speakers club in Nutley, whom honored him, as did the town council, at his 100th Birthday in 1990. He would die in the year of 1991, on December 1, outliving his son, Walter, Jr. who died in October of 1990.

Walter Sr.’s parents were George Schaefer and Margaret Bahr. George was an immigrant from Germany in 1871 (and born in 1847) who was a baker in New York for years, dying between 1899 and 1900. [11] Walter’s mother, by contrast, was born in Tusten, Sullivan, New York in 1854. Born to a family from Bavaria, Germany, her father was a farmer named John Bahr (1825-1892) and her mother was named Margaret (b. 1829). After marrying George Schaefer, she served as administrator of his will, written in 1894, with the administration in 1900 to “five minor children,” one of whom was Walter Sr. He would live on 95 York Avenue from 1900 to 1910, and later within Essex, New Jersey.

Ruth was as educated as Walter Sr. After attending Erasmus Hall High School, studying English, Math, History (Ancient, English and American), Physics, Latin and French, she majored in the latter two. While she got “Cs in all her subject” as noted by a relative, she graduated high school, in 1907, and enrolled at Smith College. Once there, she studied various subjects, ranging from Chemistry to Philosophy, but took a lot of Mathematics classes, getting grades that were evenly distributed between Bs and Cs, with D then as the highest grade, which she got in English. [12] She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in 1911. Her address during the time of her schooling was 496 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, New York, with her father, Lawrence A. Weber (1861-1942), a “coal and wood dealer” like his father before him. Her mother was Helen M. Williams (1865-1943) and she had seven siblings.

Walter Sr. and Ruth’s children expanded the family. [13] Martha, who died in March 1986 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, would marry Delmar Molarsky sometime in the 1940s or 1950s. Martha and Delmar would have a daughter, whom would later marry and have her own daughter. Delmar, born in Boston in March 1913 and living in Nutley from 1920 to 1940, would die in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in March 1983. As for Walter Jr., whom would die in October 1990 and be buried in Brooklyn, he would marry Carol Johnson and move to Providence, Rhode Island. Walter Jr. and Carol would have one son whom would marry, and have two children of his own.

© 2018-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

This is reprinted from my family history of the Mills/Packard family. This tells a shortened version of the Bob Mills story in World War II sent out to relatives on June 17, 2018. Some other changes have been made to make a smoother text. This was originally published on the WordPress version of this blog in November 2018, but has been broken apart info various parts for this blog.

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Notes

[9] See “Resident declares existence of speech study group,” “How to Rise to The Top In The Corporate World,” “Ironbound Revisited” and “High School Days at Barringer High,” Karl Greene’s “Senior Notes” and The Nutley Sun, “Friends Toast Walter Schaefer,” Apr. 12, 1990 within Walter Sr.’s This is Your Life, along with other articles within this booklet of old newspaper clippings.

[10] As a relative writes on Ancestry, “My grandfather, Walter A. Schaefer, soaked up history. He was particularly interested in the lives of Civil War figures. He was considered well-versed in the life and times of Abraham Lincoln and spoke with flair to many regional groups about this topic. While WAS was open to views about the Confederates, he could never forgive what he considered the incompetency of Gen. McClellan. This was just one of many topics WAS felt strongly about!”

[11] 1871 Passenger Manifest, Family Search; 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Newark, Family Search; Newark, New Jersey, City Directory, 1877; Newark, New Jersey, City Directory, 1899; Probate of George Schaefer, 1900, Application for Probates of Wills, Vol. 12, p. 356. His will might be there, but with no index, it is hard to know. Also used: Bahr Household, Tusten, Sullivan, New York, New York State Census of 1855. This is also noted in the as noted in the 1880 U.S. Federal census and the 1860 census as well. Other sources: 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Newark Ward 10, Essex, New Jersey, National Archives, NARA T623, Enumeration District 91, Roll 965, Page 13B. Called “Schafer” in this census. That year, he was going to school with his brother Allison (age 15) and sister Florence (age 13) and was living without a father but with his brother Wilbur (age 7), and sister Elsie (age 5) in a house the family owned and mortgaged; 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Newark Ward 10, Essex, New Jersey, National Archives, NARA T623, Enumeration District 79, Roll 965, Page 13B, In 1910 he is living at the same address, is a shoe store salesman, with his widowed mother Margaret (age 55), brother Allwin P. (age 24), brother George W. (age 16), sister Florence (age 23), and sister Elsie (age 15), Allwin was a plumber, George W. was an Office boy, and Florence was a typewriter; New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937 which notes Marriage to Katherine Ruth Weber on 10 Nov 1914 in Kings, New York; Walter Augustus Schaefer living on 19 Lexington Ave in Essex, NJ according to 1917 draft card. Also listed in 1942 draft card as living in Essex, New Jersey and within U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.

[12] She studied Chemistry, English, French, Latin, Math, Astronomy, Bible, History, Physics, Art, and Philosophy. Other siblings included Eva M. Weber (1887-1975), Helen M. Weber (1888-1930), Louise Weber (1892-1946), Lawrence J. Weber (1893-1933), Hortense Marion Weber (1898-1971), Eugene J. Weber (1901-1965), Paul A. Weber (1909-1970). Lawrence was the son of the Lawrence Weber (1836-1897) and Barbara Meyer (1838-1917).

[13] Sources include: U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 and the Gravestone of Walter A. Schaefer, Jr. which shows birth and death dates, among other information. Delmar's residency is established by the 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses.

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Maurice Molarsky (American, 1885-1950) - Portrait of Pauline Viardot

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Abram Molarsky (Jewish /Russian - American, 1880 - 1955)

The Park in Snow, 1934

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 ‘The sea is never pregnant,’ a Wolof proverb goes: You can never predict when it will deliver. You can never predict what it will take, either. The immensity of the ocean has room for every variable – God, genie, climate change, tides – but it bestows and withholds its wealth, shelters and destroys at whim unfathomable to man. To live off the sea is to submit to its vagaries, to endure constantly the tension between desire and defeat. 

Anna Badkhen, from her essay, “The Secret Afterlife of Boats”, published in Granta, February 12th 2016 (via kitchen-light)

The Storm, 1934. Abram Molarsky, Russian-born (1879-1955)

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Maurice Molarsky (American, 1885-1950) - Portrait of Pauline Viardot

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Portrait of Pauline Viardot - Maurice Molarsky

American, 1885–1950

Oil on canvas , 77 x 67 in. 195.6 x 170.2 cm.

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The Storm - Abram Molarsky, 1934

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Abram Molarsky (1883-1955 ), The Storm, 1934. oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 30 3/4 inches

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Nutley, Cincinnati, and beyond [Part 1]

On June 21, 1948 at the Calico Lane house in Nutley, F.L. Schaefer (wearing Indonesian dress) is married by a justice of the peace to Robert Byron Mills II at the home of her parents on Calico Lane in Nutley, NJ. This is a family photograph.

After June 18, 1961, Bob’s parents were both dead, buried in their graves in Spring Grove Cemetery. But, in order to tell the story of this next generation, it is better to go back in time to 1948. That year, on June 21, at 2 PM, Bob married Florence Louise Schaefer (F.L.) in the “Calico Lane house” or 19 Calico Lane in Nutley, New Jersey. [1]

In the years before his marriage to F.L., Bob had a life worth talking about. On November 5, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, after half a year as a student at University of Cincinnati in fall 1941 and spring 1942, looking to earn a degree in liberal arts, completing courses in English, physics, and political science. In 1942, he lived at 3816 Harrison Ave., in Cincinnati, his parent's residence. He didn’t serve in combat like others since he was part of the Army Signal Corps, going to Greenland with his typewriter, serving as a Grade 5 technician in the U.S. Army, and was discharged at the Separation Center at Camp Attenbury, Indiana, on April 12, 1946. [2] You could call him an “intellectual soldier.” I say that because before his service in Greenland and Ireland with Army communication service (Signal Corps), working as a “teletype mechanic” who constructed permanent radio teletype systems and installed teletype machines, he had 3½ months in basic training in Miami, Florida in 1943. The same year, he took a 10 weeks course called Basic Engineering I at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and took a typewriter course at Center Signal Corps School at Camp Crowder, Missouri for 17 weeks, and took a two month pre-radar course at Lexington Signal Depot at Lexington, Kentucky. [3] In all, he got an American Theater Ribbon, Eame Theater Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Meritorious Unit Award, and Victory Medal World War II, paid $638 dollars total for service, and never missed a day of his over four years of military service. He lived at 4002 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati after the war. Below are pictures showing his awards and military service:

This is reprinted from my family history of the Mills/Packard family. This tells a shortened version of the Bob Mills story in World War II sent out to relatives on June 17, 2018. Some other changes have been made to make a smoother text. This was originally published on the WordPress version of this blog in November 2018, but has been broken apart info various parts for this blog.

© 2018-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Continued in part 2

Notes

[1] Marriage of Robert Byron Mills and Florence Louise Schaefer, June 21, 1948, Certificate of Marriage, Nutley, New Jersey; Letter of Pastor Fred D. Hoffman to Unknown Recipient, Apr. 23, 1986, Vincent United Methodist Church.  Beverly Rapport and Martha Molarsky were witnesses. Bob and F.L. were married at 2 PM, and Reverend Fred E. Miles performed the ceremony.

[2] Honorable Discharge of RBM III on Apr. 12, 1946, Army of the United States, C-8 572 277. Applied for WWII compensation later on. He was even issued a carbine MKM rifle.

[3] Separation Qualification Record (and copy stapled), Apr. 12, 1946, Army of the United States, form 12-7-28 RAM. His picture book shows him among the graduates of the Oklahoma A & M college in 1943. He also notes his service at Camp Crowder, with the book showing his sense of humor. It also shows he was stationed at Narsarssuak and Simiutak, Greenland in 1944, and Keelavik and Rejavavik, Iceland 1945-1946.

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Maurice Molarsky - Woman in White Fur Wrap (n.d.)

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Morris Molarsky (1885 - 1950) Woman In White Fur Wrap (104 x 92 cm)

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Abram Molarsky - The Storm (1934)

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Abram Molarsky The storm 1934