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  ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oscar Lindauer
  SHORT DESCRIPTION Chicago china decorator
  DATE OF BIRTH 1815
  PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , Alsace-Lorraine
  DATE OF DEATH September 5 , 1866
  PLACE OF DEATH Manhattan


Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer ( 1815 - September 5 , 1866 ) emigrated from Strasbourg , Alsace-Lorraine to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834. He along with his children operated a series of liquor and cigar stores in Manhattan , New York and Jersey City, New Jersey . Their cigar business was Lindauer and Company Tobacconists which manufactured and sold cigars throughout Manhattan and Hudson County, New Jersey.


BIRTH, EMIGRATION, AND MARRIAGE

Oscar was born in 1815 in I (1835-1921) who married Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841-1931); John Jacob Lindauer (1841-1888) who married Nellie X (1853-1899) and worked as the cigar maker; and Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) who married Mary Sheehan (1842-1888).


PHILADELPHIA TO MANHATTAN

Oscar and Anna moved from Philadelphia to New York around 1850 and their daughter, Eloise Lindauer I (1852-1944) was born there. Eloise would later marry William Arthur Ensko II (1850-1889) and have several children and grandchildren. Oscar and Anna lived on Houston Street in Greenwich Village in New York City and Oscar and his children operated a liquor vending business or an "exchange". Other entries in the City Directory list the children as "brokers". In 1866 he was living at 81 Grand Street in Manhattan and his occupation was listed as "exchange".


DEATH AND BURIAL

Oscar died in 1866 and he was buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York and his funeral notice appeared in the ''New York Herald'' on September 7, 1866.


TIMELINE

  • 1815 Birth in Alsace

  • 1834 Marriage to Sophia Weber

  • 1834 Emigration to Philadelphia

  • 1835 Birth of Charles Frederick Lindauer I

  • 1841 Birth of John Jacob Lindauer

  • 1842 Birth of Louis Julius Lindauer

  • 1850 (circa) Move from Philadelphia to Manhattan

  • 1852 Birth of Eloise Lindauer I

  • 1866 Living at 81 Grand Street in Manhattan

  • 1866 Death in Manhattan on September 7th



REFERENCES

  • ''New York Herald'', September 7, 1866, Funeral Notice, Oscar Lindauer

  • ''Brooklyn Eagle'', June 2, 1889, Lindauer and Company, Tobacco



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