Hertha Emma Eisenmenger

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married Name: Flack
• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922
• Education: 1934, A.B. Davis High School, Mt. Vernon NY
• Education: 1938, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA; Zoology major
• Education: 1941, Yale Nursing School, New Haven CT; Nursing MS degree
• Residence: 1942, Wilton CT; WWII - after Jim joined the Navy & married Tah, they moved to Wilton CT while Jim went to flight school in Boston
• Residence: 1943, Miami FL; WWII - stationed in Miami for short time
• Residence: 1944, Minneapolis MN; WWII - stationed for another short period, Jim II born in April
• Residence: 1944, Chicago IL; WWII - stationed in Chicago. Drove mid-winter from Miami in a rickety unheated 2-seater with holes in the floor boards.
• Residence: 1944, Norman OK; WWII - Unclear dates
• Residence: 1945, Danbury CT; Lived in Sonny & Ernst Weber's vacation home at Candlewood Lake. Sonya Karen born on Nov 19.
• Residence: 1945, Dallas TX; WWII - final station near end of war
• Residence: 1946, Westford MA; 1946-50 abt - lived in 2 homes before spending a year in Puerto Rico
• Residence: 1950, San Juan PR; 1950-51 abt - Jim & family was re-located to San Juan for a year while working for Textron. Returned to Westford MA in time for Suzanne M. (Tita) birth.
• Residence: 1952, Westford MA; 1952-54 abt - lived in 2 homes, including the large yellow house across from the Frost School. Tita is born 4 Mar 1952
• Residence: 1955, 623 Wilderness Road, Tryon NC 28782; 1955-62 moved in Aug to Tryon NC, road trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway
• Residence: 1962, New York NY; 1962-75 moved to NYC, 3 addresses, kept Tryon NC home for summer/vacations
• Residence: 1975, Tryon NC; JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC after Jim's retirement in Dec 1974.
• Residence: 2004, 615 Laurel Lake Drive, Columbus NC 28722; Moved in Jan to Tryon Estates, assisted living community (Apt 145)

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JMF-HEF-WSM TIMELINE
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1907 WSM (Wray S Monroe) born in Colorado: 2 Aug 1907
1913 JMF (James M Flack) born in Baxter MS: 29 Aug 1913
1916 HEF (Hertha E Flack) born in Cleveland OH: 10 Oct 1916
1934 HEF graduated A.B. Davis High School, Mt Vernon NY
1935 JMF graduated Delta State Teachers College, Cleveland MS
1935-1939 JMF Principal at Shaw MS High School
1938 HEF graduates from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
1939-1942 JMF Yale Divinity School, Divinity Degree
1941 HEF graduated Yale Nursing School, New Haven CT
1941 JMF-HEF marriage at Mt Vernon NY: 30 Aug 1941
1942-1945 JMF Commissioned Naval Officer
__abt-1942 Stationed in Boston (flight school-lived in Wilton CT)
__abt-1943 Stationed in Miami FL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Chicago IL
__abt-1944 Stationed in Minneapolis MN, JMF II born: 20 Apr 1944
__abt-1944 Stationed in Norman OK (date unclear)
__abt-1945 Stationed in Dallas TX
1945 JMF-HEF Lived in Danbury CT
1945 Sonya Karen born Danbury CT: 19 Nov 1945
1946 JMF Standard Oil Corp of NJ, Employee Relations Depart
1946-1950 lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1946-1953 JMF Textron, Inc. Officer, subsidiary Director
1948 Robert Frank born Westford MA: 19 Feb 1948
1950-1951.abt JMF-HEF lived in San Juan PR: 1123 Piccioni Calle
1952-1954 JMF-HEF lived in Westford MA - 2 homes
1952 Suzanne Margaret born Westford MA: 4 Mar 1952
1953-1972 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-president, Director
1955-1962 JMF-HEF moved from Westford MA to Tryon NC: Aug 1955
1962-1975 JMF-HEF moved to New York City, 3 addresses, kept Tryon home
1972-1974 JMF Indian Head, Inc, Vice-chairman (retired Dec 1974)
1975 JMF-HEF moved back to Tryon NC
1989 JMF died in Moscow: 16 Jun 1989
1993 HEF-WSM marriage Tryon NC: 21 Jan 1993
2001 WSM died: 21 Sept 2001
2004 HEF moved to Tryon Estates, Columbus NC (assisted-living community)
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COMMENTS ON HERTHA'S PAINTING

Inspired by a lifetime of travel, Hertha Flack's recent landscape paintings are rendered in bold, rich color. Her work is most often in the impressionistic style, occasionally tending toward abstract. Ms. Flack, who has painted for over 25 years and has had several successful one-person shows, has exhibited in numerous states and is a member of several art organizations. She now works mainly in acrylics.

She has studied with Carole Barnes, Carrie Brown, Maxine Masterfield and Mary Todd Beam. Her home and studio are in Tryon, North Carolina.

June 1934, Hertha graduated from High School in Mt. Vernon. She had applied for admission to Swarthmore College.

SWARTHMORE SCHOLARSHIPS
The Flack Achievement Award, established by Jim and Hertha Flack in 1985, is given to a deserving student who, during his or her first 2 years at the College, has demonstrated leadership potential and a good record of achievement in both academic and extracurricular activities.

The Flack Faculty Award is given for excellence in teaching and promise in scholarly activity by a member of the Swarthmore faculty to help meet the expenses of a full year of leave devoted to research and self-improvement. This award acknowledges the particularly strong link that exists at Swarthmore between teaching and original scholarly work. The president gives the award based upon the recommendation of the provost and the candidate?s academic department. This award is made possible by an endowment established by James M. Flack and Hertha Eisenmenger Flack ?38.


SWARTHMORE 1938 YEARBOOK - HALCYON

HERTHA EMMA EISENMENGER
Lab haunting Hertha Emma Eisenmenger is the foremost product of Third East's ability to rouse sleepy heads, have its vertebrae counted, send forth a member with the right date near the right time all on a Saturday night. In return, the corridor may be favored with a wordless rendition of a new song, a constant supply of food, the thrill of having a night picture snapped from a rainy window sill. Appreciative of her roommate's kindness in explaining jokes and her leniency in the matter of lima beans, Hertha plays favorites, breaking a rule by remembering the roommate's name.

MAJOR: Zoology
HOME: 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon, NY

Yale School of Nursing Class of 1941

HIGH SCHOOL

Graduated 1934 from A.B. Davis High School Mt. Vernon, NY

MARRIAGE TO WRAY MONROE

Wedding ceremony on Thurs 1/21/1993, followed by honeymoon trip to Hong Kong on 1/26. Wray takes annual trips sponsored by the Rotary Club for free clinical dental work.

Hertha married James Monroe Flack, I on 30 Aug 1941 (Civil) in 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon NY. James (son of Jesse James Flack and Louella Lenora Lucas) was born on 29 Aug 1913 in Baxter MS; died on 16 Jun 1989 in Moscow RU (on tour); was cremated in Tryon NC Holy Cross Episcopal Church. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sonya Karen Flack
2. Suzanne Margaret Flack
3. James Monroe Flack, II
4. Robert Frank Flack

Hertha married Wray Stockton Monroe on 21 Jan 1993 (Civil) in Tryon NC. Wray was born on 2 Aug 1907 in Colorado; died on 21 Sep 2001 in Tryon NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922

Notes:

Died:
NY Times Obituary 8/29/1950

HUGO E. EISENMENGER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Hugo E. Eisenmenger of 2400 Morgan Avenue, the Bronx, retired electrical engineer who was a rate expert with the Consolidated Edison Company of this city for many years until his retirement, died yesterday in Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N. Y., where he had been a patient since Aug. 10. He was born in Vienna seventy-four years ago.

Educated in Austria and Germany. Mr. Eisenmenger did his first important work for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line as an operator of marine engines from 1898 to 1906.

From 1907 to 1909 he was, in Khartoum, building an electrical plant for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The next ten years he spent in Tokyo, as a representative of a German electrical firm

Then he came to the United States, and for two years was the assistant to the chief of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company at Nela Park, Cleveland, and while in this post traveled extensively throughout the world. He joined Consolidated Edison in 1921.

Mr. Eisenmenger wrote "Central Station Rates in Theory and Practice" and many articles in technical journals.

He leaves his second wife, who was Lydia Alber of Mount Vernon, N. Y., at their marriage in 1940; two daughters of his first marriage, Mrs. Hertha E. Flack and Mrs. Greta Neelsen, and four grandchildren.

Hugo married Charlotte Sonya Escherich on 5 Aug 1913 in Vienna AT, and was divorced in Aug 1936 in Reno NV. Charlotte (daughter of Prof. Theodor Escherich and Margarethe Pfaundler) was born on 22 Jan 1895 in Graz AT; died on 4 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT; was buried on 7 Jul 1984 in Oetz, Tyrol AT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married Name: Eisenmenger, Weber
• Residence: Oetz, Tyrol AT; Ancestral Austrian home
• Residence: New Milford CT; Candlewood Lake: Sonny and Ernst vacation home on lake, built in the likeness of Austrian homes
• Residence: 159 Lorraine Ave, Mt Vernon NY; Long-time home for Sonny and Ernst
• Naturalized US Citizen: 13 Jan 1922
• Residence: 1971, Tryon NC; Sonny and Ernst home until death in NC, near Hertha and Jim Flack

Notes:

1915 version of tree has marriage date as 21 Jun 1913

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AUGUST EISENMENGER
(translated by Ernst Weber)

History painter, born February 11, 1820 in Vienna, died there on December 6, 1907. At the age of 15, he enrolled in the Akademie (Viennese Academy of Painting) but interrupted his studies in 1848 to join Karl Rahl and his atelier, who was in bitter competition with Carl von Blaas, who had received the order for the frescoes at the Vienna Arsenal in 1859. In his fight against Blaas, Rahl's other students Griepenkerl, Bitterlich, Lotz, Gaul, Fblix joined with Eisenmenger. On the other hand, the close friendship of Rahi with Theodor von Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen directed many large commissions for monuments after Rahl's death to his students. Eisenmenger who was valued as the best student of Rala and who also was unquestioned master of wax mold painting, received the most important commissions. The first assignment was the decoration of the front entrance of the "Heinrichshof" with allegories and festoons using the last named technique; these paintings have been preserved rather well. In 1890 followed the ceiling frescoes (Apollo and the 9 Muses) in the large hall of the Musikverein, and then in the newly built City Hall of Vienna a depiction of the expansion of the city (beyond the raised city walls) and the apotheosis of "Austria". 1872 to 1874 followed the 12 frieze medallions in the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, as well as the frieze "The Taming of Nature's Power by the Graces" in the Court staircase of the Court Theater (State Theater). Very remarkable are his ceiling frescoes in the Palais Gutmann (child presentations of the twelve months), the frescoes (The Graces and Peace) in the staircase of The Palais Tietz on the Schottenring, paintings from the life of Maximilian I and Leopold von Babenberg for the Chateau Hornstein of Archduke Leopold. 1878 he achieved his greatest success with the Aesop curtain for the theater in Augsburg, on which be memorialized his teacher Rahi in a Portrait.

1881 he created the "Triumph of Justice" a large cyclic frieze for the Palace of Justice; the "Development of the Modern Government" in the Parliament and as the last large commission a series of 50 medallions in the "Antique" halls of the Museum of Art History. Eisenmenger had also been successfully active as portraitist (portrait of Johann Strauss in the Museum of History of the city Vienna, and of Minister Duke Leo Thun, portrait in the possession of the Austrian Ministry for Education). For the Church of the Scots (Schottenkirche) he painted two altar portraits (Saint Benedict and Saint Gregor). He also created the design of Austrian banc note of 1 Gulden. Since 1872 be had been Professor of the Vienna Academy and director of a Master class of History painters and had a number of excellent students, all outstanding in the use of color. In 1901 he retired. He has been the last representative of that exceptional era who under Hansen, Ferstel, Schmidt, Rahl, Makart have created the new Vienna.


Name:
A well-know artist that painted the frieze in the Austria Parliament Building in Vienna

August married Emma Singer. Emma was born in 1841; died in 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emma Singer von Wyszogurska

Notes:

Discovery of Escherichia coli
In 1886, after intensive laboratory investigations, Escherich published a monograph on the relationship of intestinal bacteria to the physiology of digestion in the infant. This work, presented to the medical faculty in München and published in Stuttgart, Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung (1886) (Enterobacteria of infants and their relation to digestion physiology), was to become his habilitation treatise and established him as the leading bacteriologist in the field of paediatrics.
It was also the publication where Escherich described a bacterium which he called "bacterium coli commune" and which was later to be called Escherichia coli. For the next four years, Escherich worked as first assistant to Heinrich von Ranke at the Munich Von Haunersche Kinderklinik.
Professor of Pediatrics in Graz and Vienna (1890-1911)
In 1890, Escherich succeeded Rudolf von Jaksch, who had been called to Prague, as professor extraordinary of pediatrics and director of the St Anna children's clinic in Graz, where he became professor ordinary four years later. While working in Graz, he married Margarethe Pfaundler (1890-1946), daughter of the physicist Leopold Pfaundler. They had a son Leopold (born 1893), who died at age ten, and a daughter Charlotte (called "Sonny" - born 1895), who survived to the 1980s. Escherich made the Graz pediatric hospital one of the best-known institutions in Europe.



First name listed as "Carl Theodor" in 1892 Escherich Family Tree by Theodor Escherich. Contemporary [2022] literature references "Theodor"

Name:
Viennese Pediatrician that discovered the e. coli bacteria

Theodor married Margarethe Pfaundler on 4 Jun 1892. Margarethe (daughter of Hofrat Leopold Pfaundler and Amalie Steffan) was born on 8 Jul 1870; died in 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Doctor of medicine, District medical counselor and professor in Würzburg

Ferdinand married Franziska Goldmeyr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Leopold Pfaundler von Hadermur (14 February 1839 - 6 May 1920) was an Austrian physicist and chemist born in Innsbruck. He was the father of pediatrician Meinhard von Pfaundler (1872-1947), and the father-in-law of pediatrician Theodor Escherich (1857-1911).

He studied under chemist Heinrich Hlasiwetz (1825-1875) at Innsbruck, with Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) at the University of Munich, and with Henri Victor Regnault (1810-1878) and Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) in Paris. In 1861 he received his doctorate, and in 1867 was appointed professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck. In 1891 he succeeded Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) as professor of physics at the University of Graz. In 1887 he became a full member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Pfaundler is remembered today for his kinetic-molecular explanation of gas reactions under the condition of equilibrium. He was the inventor of a number of scientific apparatuses - devices he often utilized in classroom demonstrations. These included a temperature regulator (1863), a Stromkalorimeter (1869), a differential air thermometer (1875), a seismograph (1897) and a distance meter (1915), to name a few. He is also credited with creating a device for optical demonstration of Lissajous figures (1873).

In 1863-64 he performed a survey of the Stubaier Alps with Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau (1839-1890), and in 1864 he was the first person to ascend to the summit of the Hofmannspitze (3112m).



Pfaundler was active in several scientific societies and also served as Rector of the University of Innsbruck in 1880. He was an avid mountain climber and photographer of mountain landscapes, for which he received a silver medal at the 1901 International Photographic Exhibition, as well as an early enthusiast of the Japanese game of Go on which he published a book in 1908.

Other interests included ecology and the carrying capacity of the earth and advocacy of an artificial international language for use in the scientific literature. Indeed, in 1914 he published a photographic lexicon in Ido, a simplified version of Esperanto. He died in Graz in May of 1920 at age 81.



Leopold, university professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck in 1891, received a professorship at the University of Graz. There Hermann visited the High School and studied at the University of Graz. He received his doctorate in 1904 from Dr. iur. and then was in the Styrian service as an official. After temporary use in the Central Statistical Commission in Vienna, he came into the k. k. Telegraph Correspondence-Bureau. In 1916, he was assistant director; he was a delegate of the 1917/1918 Bureau in the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk in 1933, and in 1926 he took over the management of the official news agency (formerly Burau). After that, he was undersecretary and Section Head of the chancellor's office. The summer months Pfaundler held regularly in Tyrol, was an avid mountaineer and made several first ascents.

Received the title of nobility with the title "von Hadermur" on 9 Nov 1910

Leopold married Amalie Steffan on 2 Aug 1869. Amalie was born on 30 Sep 1843; died in unk.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]