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| 201 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Charles, Joshua Aaron (I80)
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| 202 | Judge in Axams, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. See here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axams | Pfaundler, Christof (I727)
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| 203 | Judge in Ehrenberg [DE?] | Pfaundler, Johann (I753)
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| 204 | June 1934, Hertha graduated from High School in Mt. Vernon. She had applied for admission to Swarthmore College. | Eisenmenger, Hertha Emma (I12)
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| 205 | lady-in-waiting to the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa [more information on Maria Theresa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa] | Family: Georg Lorenz von Escherich / Countess Toldeo du Talvarez (F276)
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| 206 | Last name was abbreviated as "von Hoff.", assumed the surname is "von Hoffmann | von Hoffmann (I933)
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| 207 | Lawyer, University Professor | Pfaundler, Dr. Juris Ignaz (I538)
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| 208 | 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, Hofrat Leopold (I38)
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| 209 | 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. | Pfaundler, Hofrat Leopold (I38)
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| 210 | Lienz is a medieval town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. See here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lienz | Pfaundler, Bernhart Cassian Maria (I581)
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| 211 | Lillian (née Matz) Charles obituary Feb 17 2008 Baltimore Sun ---- Lillian "Libby" Charles, whose creative side inspired her progeny to pursue careers in the arts and entertainment, died of heart failure Friday at Aventura Hospital in Florida - not far from where she lived for the past 20 years. She was 85. Born Lillian Matz in Baltimore, she was a 1940 graduate of Patterson Park High School. She was married in the 1940s to Aaron Charles, who died when Mrs. Charles was 35. | Matz, Lillian (I1096)
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| 212 | Lived in Graz | Caloni, Caroline (I917)
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| 213 | Lived in Saibusch [renamed as Seipnsch], (Galicia) as a retired civil servant | von Escherich, Alfed (I921)
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| 214 | Local judge in Munich DE | Escherich, Friedrich (I944)
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| 215 | Local tax administrator in Hochheim [more information on Hochheim, Prussia and a historical map: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10805056] Levy administrator in Mainz [a German city on the Rhine River, more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz], Royal court councilor | Escherich, Georg Friedrich (I871)
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| 216 | Lorenz was taught by his cousin Fr. Joseph Anton, became a priest in 1752, became abbot in Isna in 1777. ---- Isna is most likely referring to St. George?s Abbey, Isny in Isny im Allgäu in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George%27s_Abbey,_Isny | Pfaundler, Lorenz (I693)
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| 217 | Maiden name could be Hohenberg | Hoberg, Anna (I33)
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| 218 | Manager [Betriebsleiter can refer to either a factory manager, company manager, or operating manager] in Losoncz , Raday Hungary [Losoncz is now called Lu?enec and is part of Slovakia] | Pfaundler, Gustav (I985)
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| 219 | Mantua IT is a city and comune in Lombardy. See here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantua ---- University professor of mathematics and academic in Vienna | von Escherich, Gustav (I940)
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| 220 | Marcelle Suls Reiser shared the same birthday (March 3) with Nancy Tobias Sall and Susan Getz Kerbel. She would send a birthday card every year until her passing. | Suls, Marcelle (I1028)
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| 221 | Margaret Flack is listed as "w (sol Conf) of John Y. Flack. This means she was the widow of John Y. Flack, who was a soldier in the confederate army in the war of the rebellion. 1890 Census: Instructions to Enumerators http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1890.shtml ... 2. Whether a soldier, sailor, or marine during the civil war (United States or Confederate), or widow of such person.?Write "Sol" for soldier, "Sail" for sailor, and "Ma" for marine. If the person served in the United States forces add "U.S." in parentheses, and if in the Confederate forces add "Conf." in parentheses, thus: Sol (U.S.); Sail (U.S.); Sol (Conf.), etc. In the case of a widow of a deceased soldier, sailor, or marine, use the letter "W" in addition to the above designations, as W. Sol (U.S.), W. Sol (Conf.), and so on. The enumeration of the survivors of the late war, including their names, organizations, length of service, and the widows of such as have died, is to be taken on a special schedule prepared for the purpose, as provided for by the act of March 1, 1889, and relates only to those persons, or widows of persons, who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the late war. The inquiry concerning the survivors of both the United States and Confederate forces is made on the population schedule so as to ascertain the number now living and the number who have died and have left widows. | Source (S12)
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| 222 | MARIE LOUISE NECKLACE STORY ERNST WEBER INTRODUCTION (2nd husband of Sonya Eisenmenger Weber) Sometime in the summer of 1986, Wolfgang sent me a copy of the "Journal December 1985/January 1986" which contained the story under the title, Al Capone and the Necklace of Maria Louise - A Near Grotesque Criminal Story Told at an Interview by Wolfgang Pfaundler. Since it is printed in German, I have translated it to be added to the Biography of Sonny. Al Capone and the Necklace of Maria Louise Almost a crime grotesque according to an interview by Wolfgang Pfaundler Last summer died in Innsbruck in her ninetieth year, Sonya Weber, the daughter of Theodor von Escherich, who was the Director of the Children's Clinic in Vienna from 1902 to !911 and had achieved world fame through his discovery of the bacillus Coli Communis, now referred to as Bacillus E, E standing for Escherich. Dr. Sonya Weber worked in the United States of America up to her 86th year as orthopedic specialist. Except for the war years she came every summer from the United States to Oetz to visit her mother, and in fact, was buried in the churchyard of the mountain village Oetz. Her first husband, whose brother Victor will play a prominent role in this interview, was Hugo Eisenmenger. Her second marriage was with the Viennese Physicist Prof. Dr. Ernst Weber who taught in New York City. "I was born in Graz, Austria, in 1895 and emigrated to the United States in 1913. During the summer of 1914, I returned to Europe with my husband in connection with a Mediterranean cruise. By chance, we bought a newspaper in Genoa, Italy, and read about the murder of the Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in Serbia. We knew that my brother-in-law Victor Eisenmenger always travelled with FF-Franz Ferdinand was commonly called FF -and so we thought at once, that he had been killed, too. Victor was the personal physician of FF, both had had serious infections of Tuberculosis. FF was rather arrogant and not an agreeable person and public opinion held that only nice people succumbed to Tuberculosis. Victor and FF spent considerable time in Egypt which was supposed to generally lead to cure. My sister-in-law, Anna Hohenberg, a lady of royal bearing, also had acquired the same infection, and, therefore, also stayed at that time in Egypt, as well as a certain Captain Townsend. The story I am about to tell occurred in 1928 and relates to the famous necklace that Napoleon gave to Maria Louise at the birth of their son in 1811. When Napoleon was deposed, Maria Louise was smart enough to retain this necklace and bring it back with her to Vienna. The necklace had been composed out of the loveliest diamonds of Europe containing 40 large individual crystals with a pendant of five very large diamonds. Cartier in New York at one time asked me to wear it for examination, but it did not really fit my figure. Anyway, nobody would have believed them to be genuine diamonds. At that time, I still had to work very hard professionally. One day I received a telegram from Anna Eisenmenger-Hohenberg, "Please call for me at the ship wharf!" Not knowing what it was all about, I called for her. When she arrived, she acted rather secretively and with some dramatic posture. I always addressed her at "Aunt Anna" even though she was my sister-in-law. I had called for her in my personal auto and she immediately examined the back of the car as if she feared someone was hidden there. When the customs examination was finished, I asked again what was the object of her visit. She then said: "I have come as the confidential delegate of Archduchess Maria Theresia" and she confided that the Archduchess owned the Napoleon Necklace. Actually, when FF, Victor and Anna Eisenmenger sojourned in Egypt on account of their Tuberculosis, they had encountered this "Captain Townsend" who apparently was neither Captain nor carried the name Townsend, but was an absolute, but smart, foreflusher. The Archduchess who was a rational and practical mother had been looking for some contact that would facilitate the sale of the necklace and Aunt Anna had suggested Townsend. Maria Theresia had three daughters, Annunciata, not married, and the subsequent Duchesses of Württemberg and of Liechtenstein. Since the necklace could not be divided between the three daughters, the mother wanted to sell the necklace for something like three million dollars and divide the money. However, the economic conditions worldwide were not favorable, the best opportunity appeared in the U.S. The Archduchess concluded to send the necklace to America and to avoid any special attention, she packed the necklace in newspaper and a box for shoes, without insurance, to the address of that "Captain Townsend". Thus, the necklace had been mailed, Townsend had rented, upon the recommendation of the Archduchess a safe deposit box at the Harriman Bank in New York and had given full power to this Captain to sell the necklace if he found a reliable purchaser. The Harriman Bank was the only one where one could get to the safe deposit box during 24 hours, thus exhibit or wear the necklace at any time, and return it at any time. For the first few months after Townsend had confirmed receipt of the necklace, he sent reports. But when no further reply was received, even though the Archduchess had urgently asked for reports, the Archduchess became suspicious. She asked Aunt Anna Eisenmenger to travel at once to New York and check on the situation. At the same time, she had cancelled the power of attorney of Townsend, and had published that fact in the newspapers in New York. Aunt Anna was quite adventurous and when she arrived and had settled down in our house in Mount Vernon, she wanted to go to the Harriman Bank to verify that the necklace was, indeed, there and had not disappeared with Townsend. I objected and told her that that would be very foolish because Townsend could bring suit against her! But we went to New York to the Hotel Belmont on Lexington Avenue, a good hotel, opposite the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. I have the suspicion that as we entered the hotel at one door, Townsend had gone out the same minute through another door! In fact, as we came to the Reception we were told: "Yes, he had occupied a room here, but he just departed." Now, what should we do? To break into the safe of the Bank we had no key. I did not dare to suggest because it could have terrible consequences. We returned home, and shortly afterwards, the telephone rang. As I took off the receiver, I recognized immediately that it could not be one of my patients, the voice was coarse, and a strange man's voice asked if I was Mrs. Eisenmenger. When I answered yes, he said: " Would you like to know where the necklace is?" I said, "But it is, of course, in the Harriman Bank". "Well, he said, you better look again: it certainly is not there anymore! It is there and there..." and he hung up. I wrote quickly the address he had mentioned on a pad that was fortunately next to the phone, namely on 53rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Fortunately, I had at that time among my patients a very well-known lawyer, Lewis Untermayer, who, in fact, had warned me before not to break into the safe. I phoned him right away, told him the story and also told him that Aunt Anna wanted to rush to that address not to lose any time. He said, however: "Do not go there in any case! I will send an armed man to a certain spot (and he specified that to me and let me repeat) and when at that spot you see a man who gives you this exact answer, it is the man I am sending." So, Aunt Anna and I jumped into my car and we drove to the designated spot. We saw there a tall man who gave the correct answer, and he entered my car. It was Mr. Steinhart, a nephew of Untermayer. On 53rd Street are all jewelers and valuables stores, generally the large dealers. We entered at the specified house, a heavy iron gate opened and quickly closed behind us. I thought, of course, Here we are caught! But then opened a second iron gate and we entered an office where a man sat at a desk. Steinhart had instructed us, "Let me talk, don't say a word, but when I give you a sign, start to talk like a waterfall!" In this way he wanted to gain time. I just was on needles, because the whole thing, necklace or not, really did not concern me personally. I thought about my family and the many children at the clinic, the time lost here, because, after all, I had the office with patients! Well, the man at the desk sat like a spider in her web, and my "guide" began to talk: "I heard that you have the necklace here"...and the other replied, "Yes, I have had it, but I sold it". Steinhart in turn said: "I have been authorized by Untermayer to find out to whom you have sold it!" Oh yes, "I sold it to . . . . and he gave an address about two or three houses further along. We thanked the man, went to the next address, where again: iron gates opened, iron gates closed and again a man at a desk like a spider. He said: "Yes, I bought it two days ago, but I have sold it again". "Oh, yes, and to whom?" He gave an address two houses further along. At the third address, as we enter, the man says: "Oh, yes, I have it here". Now Steinhart said that we were the personal representatives of the Archduchess and could we see the sales contract? "Oh, yes", replied he, "with pleasure". He showed the contract of sale which amounted to less than $100,000 dollars, though the value of the necklace was at least one million dollars. The sale was signed by witnesses, the last of whom was Archduke Leopold Salvator. Steinhart asked if the necklace was actually there and the man replies, "Yes, it is in the safe behind me." Steinhart now introduced us and said that Baroness Hohenberg had power of attorney from the Archduchess and also had a wax copy of the necklace. He gave me a sign and I started at once to talk, no matter what and at the same time tried to open the container of the wax copy with intentional difficulties. In the meantime, the salesman had opened the safe and taken out the necklace - when suddenly 40 policemen were in the room. Where they had come from, I had no idea, but here they were. Steinhart now said, "I confiscate the necklace". The jeweler tried to resist and referred to the sales contract, but our man answered, "Please, we shall ask for expert valuation of the necklace and when the sales contract is for less than 30 per cent of the valuation, the contract is nullified." It was terribly exciting, the policemen had their revolvers ready and pointing and when we finally were outside, I was completely exhausted. Of course, Steinhart had taken with him the necklace. When we arrived home, we sent a telegram to the Archduchess that we had secured the necklace, but also that Archduke Leopold Salvator had served as a witness to the sale! Actually, he had already twice been imprisoned and had agreed to give his name for which he had received $10,000 dollars. And what was the final result? He was again put in prison, because he was penniless. However, many of the society ladies took pity, brought him ever caviar to the prison. I, myself, had even the greatest difficulties trying to obtain my physical therapy license. All the cost of the telegrams I had to assume since I was the only one with financial recourse. For me it was very disagreeable. And then, the Archduchess telegraphed, "If the honor of a Habsburg is put in question, I would forego the million dollars." I could have murdered her! The next morning, I had to leave home by 7:00 a.m. because I had patients scheduled for 8:00 a.m., and Aunt Anna wanted to see Untermayer. Apparently, the excitement was not good for Aunt Anna. After we started with the car she sat in the rear of the car to be proper as passenger. She felt getting weak and, in the mirror, I saw her getting lower and lower. Finally, I had to stop, she vomited the scrambled eggs she had for breakfast, but more than that, she really appeared to be sick so that she could not possibly meet with Untermayer. I turned into 68th Street, stopped at a hotel to get a room for her. Being in a better section, a black doorman in a red coat opened the car door where Aunt Anna lay on the seat practically unconscious. The doorman pulled Aunt Anna by the legs out of the car and I just could get close enough to prevent her head from dropping to the Street. The doorman and I carried then Aunt Anna to the hotel where unfortunately the doorman entered the revolving door, where of course we three got completely stuck, together with our heavy winter coats. This was a real dilemma. People wanted to get out, others wanted to enter, but nobody could move, and more and more people collected. At this point, a small Jewish hotel guest who probably had some subway experience, went back in the hall, took a good start and ran with full speed against the inner side of the revolving door so that the impulse projected the three of us into a heap on the floor of the hotel hall. Aunt Anna lay on the floor, moaning and complaining to be dying. Upon Sonny's questioning she only whispered, "the heart!". Sonny called for a doctor, tried to massage the heart until he came. Of course, they had to transport her to a room and there Sonny phoned Untermayer that Mrs. Eisenmenger could not come because of her fainting spell. He said, "that really does not matter, we have control of the situation, all harbors are blocked, and all railways are being watched." I just had the presence of mind to ask, "But what will be the expense?" Untermayer replied, "$2000 dollars per day". I nearly had a stroke! Two days later, Aunt Anna went again to see Untermayer. Since I had to attend to my patients, I brought Aunt Anna to a subway station on a line that led directly to Untermayer's office. In the subway, Aunt Anna felt a little weak, so she wanted to buy some chocolate. However, she mistook chiclet for chocolate, and of course, the chewing gum had practically caused her teeth to get stuck so that Untermayer had to extricate the gum. Untermayer actually handled the affair very well and the expense was less than I had feared. Aunt Anna had to return to Europe but was scheduled to come back the following year for the court proceedings. For the meantime I was made the official representative of the Archduchess together with a Mr. Perry from Untermayer's staff. For a whole year I had the necklace near me, had to hire a chauffeur and personal guard, but nobody had interest to acquire the necklace. I got so desperate that at the St. Patrick?s Day parade, I walked in crowds even though my personal guard warned not to do that. I thought that since the necklace was insured for one million dollars with Lloyds, should it be stolen, the Archduchess will get the money. But nobody made any attempt. During the court proceedings it happened that someone approached Aunt Anna and said, "Al Capone who now is in prison, wants to offer one million dollars for the necklace!" When Aunt Anna came home and told us that, I told her: "When you do that, you will leave this house at once, that is out of the question." In the course of the court process, the necklace was actually appraised to have one million dollars material value. The historical value could not be expressed in money value at all. About two years later, the Maharajah of Haiderabud bought the necklace. What happened later on and particularly after World War II, I do not know. | Hoberg, Anna (I33)
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| 223 | 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. | Eisenmenger, Hertha Emma (I12)
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| 224 | Married to Bonapace [no additional information] | Escherich, (Child] (I914)
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| 225 | Mary Katzen Klush was my great aunt. She married for the first time in her early forties to a man named William Klush and sadly was widowed before I was born. I personally never met William. Mary from what I remember lived a modest life in a row house on Tiwanda Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Sometimes my parents would pick her up and take her out to dinner with my family. My strongest memory of Aunt Mary is that she would get the empty two page dime collector packet from the bank and when she filled it up with dimes (probably 30 of them), she would bring me the dimes as a gift. It is a sweet memory for me. Nancy Tobias Sall 24 July 2023 | Katzen, Mary (I1008)
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| 226 | Mary Katzen married when she was older. She and her husband William (Will) did not have children. He died before I got to know him. Mary lived a simple life. She lived in a rowhouse on Tiwanda Ave, in Baltimore. From what I remember, she seemed dependent on my grandmother Sarah. If my family was going out to dinner, sometimes we would pick her up and take her with us. I do not think that she knew how to drive a car. If she did, I know that she did not have one. A sweet memory that I have of Aunt Mary: She would go to the bank and get the coin collector packet for dimes. She would wait until she filled it all up(the packet probably held 30) and then give it to me when it was complete as a gift. Nancy Tobias Sall 25 Jul 2023 | Katzen, Mary (I1008)
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| 227 | Mary Katzen's married name is Mary Klush. | Katzen, Mary (I1008)
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| 228 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Sall, Maury (I218)
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| 229 | Member of the Electorate of Mainz governing council | Escherich, Andreas (I857)
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| 230 | Member of the fiscal counsel and estate inspector | von Pfaundler, Alois (I695)
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| 231 | MEMORIAL - Elaine F. Tobias Elaine F. Tobias (née Forman), of Baltimore, MD, passed away on January 20, 2020, at the age of 91. She was the beloved wife of the late, Maurice Tobias. She is survived by her cherished children, Nancy (David) Sall and Mitchell Tobias, sister-in-law, Evelyn Forman, grandchildren, Maury and Sophie Sall, and her devoted caregiver, Marshalee Dawkins. Elaine is predeceased by her parents, Sarah and Morris Forman, and sister-in-law, Rosalind Forman. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mount Wilson Lane on Wednesday, January 22, at 2 pm. Interment Arlington Cemetery - Chizuk Amuno Congregation N. Rogers Ave. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 8100 Stevenson Road, Baltimore, MD 21208 or the charity of your choice. In mourning at 11113 Valley Heights Drive, Owings Mills, MD 21117, immediately following the interment, and Thursday and Friday from 1-4:30 pm. Services on Wednesday and Thursday at 7 pm. | Forman, Elaine (I139)
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| 232 | Mentioned in 1496 as the court trumpeter. ---- Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. | Pfaudler, Sebastian (I826)
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| 233 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Merfeld, James Louis (I138)
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| 234 | Merchant | Pfaundler, Bernhart Cassian Maria (I581)
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| 235 | Merchant | Escherich, Ferdinand (I913)
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| 236 | Merchant | Pfaundler, Anton Nazarin Inovenz (I583)
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| 237 | Merchant | Pfaundler, Emil (I629)
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| 238 | Merchant in Graz | Scholtz, Carl (I942)
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| 239 | Merchant in Saint-Étienne, France,a city in eastern central France. See here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne | Pfaundler, Carl Berhard (I628)
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| 240 | Merchant in Trieste IT | Pfaundler, Friedrich (I991)
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| 241 | Merchant in Vienna | Escherich, Carl (I906)
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| 242 | Minister Vice Secretary | Pfaundler, Richard (I41)
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| 243 | Missing since 1794, joined the Sardinian military [actual notation was "sard. military"] | von Escherich, Damian Josef (I887)
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| 244 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Tobias, Mitchell (I176)
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| 245 | Mrs. Anna Brunn, Werking?s widow | Brunn, Anna (I901)
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| 246 | Municipal architect [can also be translated as "town master mason"] in Bistritz, Hungary | Pfaundler, Ottmar (I646)
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| 247 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Tobias, Nancy (I175)
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| 248 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family: Mr. Huthwaite / Naomi Bernstein (F341)
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| 249 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY Jerold Hoffberger, 80, Owner of Series-Winning Orioles, Dies By Richard Goldstein - April 13, 1999 Jerold C. Hoffberger, who owned the Baltimore Orioles when they won five American League pennants and two World Series titles in the 1960's and 1970's, died last Friday at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore after collapsing during a business meeting. He had celebrated his 80th birthday two days earlier. Following a path established by owners like Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees and August Busch of the St. Louis Cardinals, Mr. Hoffberger, who had been president of the Baltimore-based National Brewing Company, blended the beer business with baseball ownership. A native of Baltimore and a major benefactor of its educational, medical and religious institutions, Mr. Hoffberger played a role in bringing major league baseball to his hometown. When the Griffith family, owners of the Washington Senators, expressed opposition to the sale of the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore investors in 1953, Mr. Hoffberger offered to have his brewery sponsor Senator games. That deal helped soften the Senators' opposition to a nearby competitor for their fan base. Mr. Hoffberger became chairman of the Orioles in June 1965 after purchasing the 40 percent interest owned by Joseph A. W. Iglehart. The following December, the Orioles obtained the slugger Frank Robinson from the Cincinnati Reds, a deal that helped propel Baltimore to pennants in four of the next six seasons. When he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1982, Robinson paid tribute to the Oriole owner's personal touch, saying that after a game, ''he wouldn't come over and slap you on the back and say nice game-winning home run, nice double, nice play or whatever.'' ''The first words out of his mouth were: 'How are you? How's your family? Is there anything I can do for you?' '' Robinson said. But when Mr. Hoffberger was a member of the Player Relations Committee, the club owners' labor-relations unit, he drew the ire of Marvin Miller, the players union leader. Mr. Miller accused Mr. Hoffberger of being the most active owner in efforts to break the players strike of 1972, saying that he had the other owners acting as ''puppets on his string.'' Mr. Hoffberger denied that, saying that he had often been on the losing end of ownership votes, and he called Mr. Miller's remarks ''the tactics of guys who are losing ground with their constituents.'' Despite the Orioles' success on the field, they did not draw particularly well at Memorial Stadium at a time when suburban multipurpose stadiums with better sight lines were being built. Mr. Hoffberger spent several years seeking new ownership, then sold the Orioles in August 1979 for $12 million to the Washington lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, who then owned the Washington Redskins football team. When he had taken control of the Orioles, Mr. Hoffberger asked Frank Cashen, a former sports columnist and advertising director for his brewery, to run the team. Mr. Cashen was the Orioles' executive vice president from 1966 to 1975, then returned to a position at the brewery. In February 1980, Nelson Doubleday, the new co-owner of the floundering Mets, received an unsolicited phone call from Mr. Hoffberger, who suggested he hire Mr. Cashen as general manager. The Mets did that, and Mr. Cashen went on to build their 1986 World Series winner. Jerold Charles Hoffberger, the grandson of a Baltimore ice and coal merchant, attended the University of Virginia and served in the First Armored Division in World War II. His father, Samuel, a major stockholder in the National Brewing Company, later brought him into the company. Mr. Hoffberger was known for his charitable contributions, which included assistance to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the University of Maryland and Goucher College. Town & Country magazine estimated in 1983 that he had donated more than $10 million to charities. He is survived by his wife, Alice; three sons, Peter and Richard of Baltimore and David of Arnold, Md.; a daughter, Carol McCarthy of Newark, Del.; two sisters, Lois Feinblatt of Baltimore and Rosel Schewel of Lynchburg, Va., and 10 grandchildren. A version of this article appears in print on April 13, 1999, Section C, Page 23 of the National edition with the headline: Jerold Hoffberger, 80, Owner of Series-Winning Orioles, Dies | Hoffberger, Jerold Charles (P349)
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| 250 | Noblewoman of Lindenstamm | Family: Ignaz Pfaundler / Johanna Schnizer (F214)
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