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Karl Schurz
Correspondirendes Mitglied des Vereins.
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Gebet von George Elliot.
Frei übersetzt von Louis P. Hennighausen.
O, sei es mir vergönnt mich anzuschliessen,
An die Schaar der unsterblich Todten, die im
Geiste Solcher fortleben, welche durch ihr Wirken veredelt
Anregend stets zu höherem Seelenadel,
Im Wandel mutiger Aufrichtigkeit,
Verachtend Ziele welche mit uns selbst erlöschen,
Mit hohem Sinn, wie die Sterne das Dunkel der Nacht
Mit ihrer milden Beharrlichkeit durchdringend
Die Menschen anspornten im Streben nach höheren Resultaten,
So zu leben ist göttlich und im Wohlklang mit der Schöpfung.
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At
the regular monthly meeting of "The Society for the
History of the Germans in Maryland," held on Tuesday, May
15, 1906, the president, Louis P. Hennighausen, Esq., announced
the death of Hon. Carl Schurz, a corresponding member of this
Society, which occurred on the previous day—May 14th—at
his home in New York City.
Pursuant to a resolution adopted it was decided that this
Society issue a call through the press of the city, but especially
through the columns of "Der Deutsche Correspondent" and the
"Baltimore Journal," inviting all citizens interested to attend
a preliminary meeting the following evening—May 16, at Har-
monie Hall, to take action looking to the holding of a general
meeting at which arrangements could be made to honor the
distinguished deceased soldier-statesman, Carl Schurz.
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The prompt initiative taken by this Society was made
manifest the next morning in the following announcement:
Aufruf!
Alle deutsch-amerikanischen Bürger Baltimore's, welche
das Andenken ihres grossen Zeitgenossen Carl Schurz ehren,
sind ersucht, sich heute abend 8 Uhr in der Harmonie-
Halle, 414 West Fayette-Strasse, einzufinden, zur Berathung
und Arrangirung einer passenden Gedächtnisfeier des Ver-
storbenen, für nächsten Sonntag Nachmittag. Im Auftrage
des „Vereins für Erforschung der Geschichte der Deut-
schen Maryland's."
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Responsive to this call a meeting was held at the place
and time indicated, Louis P. Hennighausen, Esq., president of
"The Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland,"
presiding, and Mr. August Gisin, Manager of the ''Baltimore
Journal" acting as secretary.
After Mr. Hennighausen had stated the object of the
meeting and as the attendance was somewhat disappointing
owing to the short notice, it was decided to issue a call for
another meeting, the same to be held at Vorwaerts Hall, on
Sunday evening, next, May 20, at 8 o'clock.
A committee, consisting of Messrs. Ferdinand Kaiser, Karl
A. M. Scholtz and George Schmidt, was appointed to make
arrangements as to time and place for holding the proposed
"Memorial Service," a program of exercises, and engage
speakers, music, etc.
It was further decided to invite the co-operation of "The
Independent Citizens' Union," accompanied with the request
that the said Union send officers and delegates to the meeting.
At the meeting held at Vorwaerts Hall on Sunday, May
20, there was a highly gratifying attendance.
In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Hennighausen, Mr. John
Tjarks, president of "The Independent Citizens' Union," pre-
sided.
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Mr. Gustav Siegmund, president of the Vestry of Zion's
Church, North Gay Street, generously proffered the use of that
edifice for holding the contemplated "Memorial Services," which
offer was unanimously accepted with thanks and Sunday
evening, May 27, was decided upon as the time for holding
the same.
Messrs. Karl A. M. Scholtz and August Trappe were
appointed a committee of arrangements to prepare a program
of exercises befitting the occasion.
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Karl Schurz Memorial Service.
Sunday, May 27, 1906.
It is questionable if historic old Zion's Church ever be-
fore contained such a pre eminently representative gathering of
German-Americans as was assembled within the hallowed
precincts of its time-honored walls on this occasion—"The
Memorial Service"—in honor of the memory of the most dis-
tinguished German-American of the time, the late Hon. Carl
Schurz, patriot, diplomat, soldier and statesman, and for many
years a corresponding member of this Society.
The decorations were chaste in design and artistic in exe-
cution.
A large and striking bust-likeness of the illustrious dead,
artistically draped with the American flag, and relieved by a
charming setting of palms and giant ferns tastefully adorned
the altar and its environment, the whole designed and executed
by Mr. Louis P. Dietrich, Artist.
The choir, largely augmented for the occasion by volunteer
talent from the various singing societies, all under the direction
of Prof. Edward Boeckner, opened the services by solemnly
intoning the familiar and charming composition from the Ger-
man Church Hymnal: „Leih' aus deines Himmels Höhen;"
followed by a 'cello solo by Mr. A. Fürthmeier.
The Pastor, Rev. Julius Hofmann, then offered an invo-
cation that stirred to the inmost depths the hearts of all present.
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Mr. John Hinrichs, then read the following original poem,
written for the occasion by Rev. A. W. Hildebrandt:
KARL SCHURZ.
Ein Spriessen rings, ein Grünen, Blüh'n und Lenzen,
Im Auferstehungslichte liegt das Land;
Und wieder wich, verdrängt aus unsern Grenzen,
Der wilde Winter und sein starres Band;
Die alte Erde schmückt mit frischen Kränzen
Und farbenbunten Blumen ihr Gewand.
Da! mitten in des Frühlings Liebeswerben
Ein Misston schrillt von Scheiden und von Sterben.
Carl Schurz ist tot! vom blanken Draht getragen
Fliegt es mit Blitzesschnelle durch die Welt.
Carl Schurz ist tot! und Tausend Lippen sagen
Es trauernd nach. Ob unter'm niedern Zelt,
Ob im Palast: Wo deutsche Herzen schlagen,
Wie Nachtfrost es auf Hoffnungsblüthen fällt;
Und stets von Neuem wird die Klag' geboren:
Carl Schurz ist tot! wir haben ihn verloren!
Verloren ? Nein! Wie kann verloren gehen,
Was auch im Tode unvergänglich bleibt;
Was, wenn der Leib zerfällt, als Geisteswehen
Mit Flammenschrift sich in die Herzen schreibt?
Was zu dem Menschheitslenz, zum Auferstehen
Aus langem Winterschlaf die Völker treibt?
Der Staub mag in dem Grab als Staub vermodern,
Der Geist soll lebend unsre Brust durchlodern.
Nicht nur dem Deutschen gilt die ernste Feier,
Dem Landsmann nicht; sie gilt zumeist dem Mann,
Der, unbeirrt durch das Gelärm der Schreier,
Sein Leben stellet in der Wahrheit Bann,
Der auf des Geistes Flügeln frei und freier
Sich schwang zu immer rein'rer Höh' hinan;
Der auch des rauhen Alltags Kampfgestalten
Zum Ideale suchte zu entfalten.
Er war ein Mann von echtem Schrot und Korne;
Für Freiheit setzte er sein Leben ein;
Mit tiefen Zügen trank er aus dem Borne
Des wahren Wesens. Heuchelei und Schein
Und Trug bekämpfte er mit heil'gem Zorne,
Im Hassen wie im Lieben niemals klein.
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Den Strom des Lebens kreuzte stark der Schwimmer
Mit festem Arm, getreu sich seiner immer.
Nicht strebte er nach eitler Ruhmeskrone:
Sich selbst genug zu thun, d'rauf stand sein Sinn.
Sein Tagewerk zu schaffen, frei von Frohne,
Schien ihm des Daseins herrlichster Gewinn,
Und das Vertrauen des Volks nahm er zum Lohne,
Nicht darum buhlend, aber freudig hin.
So trug er in sich selbst des Glückes Quelle,
Und um den Abend war's ihm licht und helle.
Nicht der Partei, dem Ganzen galt sein Streben;
Aus Sklavenketten macht' er los den Knecht.
Auf welchen Platz ihn auch gestellt das Leben
In Friedensarbeit und im Blutgefecht,
That ohne Prahlen er und ohne Beben
Was Pflicht ihn hiess, und that es schlicht und recht.
Die Knospe, die entspross dem Vaterlande,
Sie ward zur Frucht am neuen Heimathsstrande.
Nun sank er hin! Ein Edler ist gefallen!
Die Maienglocken läuten ihm Geleit.
Wir denken sein in Gottes hohen Hallen,
Ein Dank und ein Gebet sei-ihm geweiht.
Ein Dank, dass er ein Vorbild ist uns Allen,
Und ein Gebet für sel'ge Ewigkeit.
Und was er säte, mög' es fröhlich spriessen,
Als Segen in der Enkel Schemen fliessen.
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The audience seemed spellbound, as with bated breath and
marked attention they drank in the words of this beautiful
and appropriate poetic offering—noble in conception and pur-
pose, catholic in word and spirit, and pulsating with the pro-
found sentiment of the overshadowing public sorrow—was read
with a rare dramatic pathos that elicited the highest encomiums
of all present for both poem and reader.
A litany for bass and 'cello followed, a fitting prelude to
The Eulogy by Mr. Carl Ahrendt.
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Seldom, if ever, were speaker, subject and audience, attuned
more harmoniously, than on this solemn occasion.
The spontaneous outpouring of the sons and daughters of
the Fatherland, and their descendants, representing every walk
in life, attested far more than words the high esteem and vener-
ation in which Carl Schurz was held by his fellow-countrymen.
A man of the people and for the people—a citizen of the
world—the most highly esteemed and honored of his race and
time; a man whose life and services in war and peace, had for
more than a half a century been prominently identified and
interwoven with the affairs of the nation, and whose name and
fame adorns the brightest and most interesting page of American
history, had been gathered to his fathers.
The inspired eloquence of the gifted orator and the all-
interesting subject matter of his masterful discourse, together
with the profoundly reverential spirit that filled the sacred
edifice like an incense from on high, commanded the undivided
attention of his hearers from beginning to conclusion.
A choral by the choir closed the services.
Thus, inspired by "The Society for the History of the
Germans in Maryland," closed one of the most highly interesting
services ever held in the city of Baltimore.
J. LEONARD HOFFMAN,
Secretary.
PROFESSOR OTTO FUCHS
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Professor Otto Fuchs.
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So many eloquent and carefully weighed tributes to the
memory of Professor Fuchs have appeared in print since his
death, March 13, 1906, that the writer of the following brief
sketch shrinks from any attempt at adding to the general sum
of these admirable appreciations. A reference to the Minute,
which this Society adopted, March 20, 1906, a copy of which
was forwarded to the widow of the deceased, will also make
plain how great was our sense of loss, as an Association and
as individuals, in parting with this eminent citizen and beloved
fellow member.
But something remains to be said, and said from the point
of view of this Association. The records of the Society for
the History of the Germans in Maryland will one day be
examined for information, not only of the achievements, but
also of the characteristics of the men who have been prominent
in its councils and in the German phalanx of our civic life.
Perhaps the most remarkable impression the career of Pro-
fessor Otto Fuchs has made upon the mind of his American
friends is bound up in the completeness with which he adapted
himself to conditions on this side of the ocean. Among his
greatest admirers and most ardent supporters were men, who
knew perhaps little of Germans and Germany, but who recog-
nized in Professor Fuchs the kind of man this country needs
in accomplishing the great uplift of a new nation, in search
of technics, into the freer atmosphere of real technical art.
His early transplantation to American soil—at the age of
twelve—and his consequent excellent mastery of English, were
undoubtedly factors in this remarkable adaptation, but the
real explanation is to be sought, not in his circumstances, but
in the man himself.
Had Professor Fuchs become entirely American, in feeling,
thought and language, there would be no occasion for dwelling
on this phenomenon. Many of his fellow countrymen who
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belong to this latter class have become very valuable American
citizens, notwithstanding the partial loss of their inherited or
acquired outfit of German culture and of German outlook into
life. But our deceased friend belonged in a different and
higher category. His happy optimism recognized and adopted
what he found of actually good and excellent in his new
surroundings, but his unyielding conservation rejected any
compromise with what his sober judgment recognized as inferior
or immature. This was strikingly shown on the only occa-
sion when he entered the arena of political strife, during the
fight started by General Benjamin F. Butler, then Governor of
Massachusetts, against higher and broader education in the
public schools of the commonwealth. In this conflict, Pro-
fessor Fuchs was supported by the good sense and judgment of
the best citizens of the Bay State. But even had this not
been the case, we may be sure that his course of action would
have been the same. His was, however, a nature that avoided
fruitless and prolonged controversies. On the victorious ter-
mination of the conflict in Massachusetts, Professor Fuchs
accepted the position of Director of the Maryland Institute
Schools for Art and Design. And this was Baltimore's gain.
During the twenty-two years of his life and work in this
city, a large number of talented scholars, drawn alike from
the American and international sources of our population, have
under his direction been fitted for a useful and in some cases
for a distinguished career. His own incessant activity was
under the control of the best traditions of German art edu-
cation, and with this spirit he sought to inspire his pupils.
If he strongly emphasized the technical side of the arts of
drawing and design, that in which his own talent chiefly lay,
he furnished thereby a perhaps necessary corrective to certain
impatient tendencies in American education. Over his study
the following lines, attributed to Goethe, might with justice
have been inscribed:
Wer will Lehrling sein?
Jedermann.
Wer will Geselle sein?
Wer was kann.
Wer will Meister sein?
Wer was ersann!
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Outside the walls of the Maryland Institute, and in the
intervals of leisure not devoted to his domestic circle, Professor
Fuchs belonged to his German friends, and their best interests
were his interests. He was a diligent and useful member of
this Society, and was at the time of his death its First Vice-
President. Social intercourse with these and other friends was
to him synonymous with the opportunity for giving and
receiving intellectual stimulus. None of us will ever forget
his playful humor on such occasions, his underlying tone of
seriousness and inoffensive didacticism, his instant appreciation
of unusual merit, the quiet glow of his enthusiasm for good
movements and reasonable reforms. Unobtrusive though he
was, and self-centered in his profession, Professor Fuchs had
many of the characteristics of the man of action. He accom-
plished things himself and helped others accomplish, and was
in his quick way an influencer and persuader of men. As
draughtsman and later as Director of the Bureau of Design
for Monitors, he may be said to have helped win the naval
battles of the civil war. As head of the Maryland Institute,
he became an important factor in the never-ending warfare
between narrow realism and ideal realism in American life.
His constant aims and chief endeavor was to do his part to-
wards replacing the strifes of a new, noisy, outside civilization
with the harmony of a national life that seeks inspiration and
expression through the permanent principles of art.
HENRY WOOD.
REV. EDUARD HUBER
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Rev. Eduard Huber.
1845—1906.
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Rev. Eduard Huber, for many years chairman of the
Executive Committee, and one of the most active and useful
members of this society, died July 9th, 1906, aged sixty-one
years.
He was born June 22nd, 1845, in Canton Thurgau, Switzer-
land, from whence, at a very early age (nine years), he emi-
granted with his parents and grand-parents to America (the
United States), settling on a farm near Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
where the family resumed its calling in husbandry.
His elementary education was received in the parochial
school at Germantown, Wisconsin, and the private tutorship
of Rev. William Binner, followed later by a classical course
at the German-English Academy in Milwaukee.
When barely seventeen years of age he began teaching in
the county public schools, being later transferred to the Public
Schools in Milwaukee, where he taught and studied until the
Spring of 1865, when he matriculated as a student of theology
at Eden College, Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri.
Having completed his course of studies in 1868, in advance
of his class, he was, before attaining his majority, sent to
Jefferson City, Missouri, and there assigned as assistant to Rev.
Joseph Rieger, a pioneer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in the West.
On Sunday, January 24th, 1869, at Herrman, Missouri, the
young aspirant for theological honors was formally ordained
and received into the ministry of the Evangelical Church.
Following the death of Rev. Joseph Rieger, in August,
1869, the young but ambitious disciple of the Prince of Peace,
who had so ably and acceptably assisted the deceased pastor,
was called to the pastorate by the congregation, a highly com-
plimentary tribute that spoke volumes in behalf of his abilities
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and attractive characteristics of heart and mind, as well as to
the discriminating judgment and appreciation of the con-
gregation.
During his pastorate of this charge which he so acceptably
filled until 1873, he also officiated as chaplain of the Missouri
Legislature, a most trying and delicate position in those days
of "Reconstruction" following the great Civil War, a duty
calling not only for ability, but also the exercise of the most
discriminating judgment and masterful tact.
At the same time he also voluntarily preached and con-
ducted the religious exercises at the Missouri State penitentiary.
Thus, at the very outset of his career, he brought into
requisition not only his highly developed linguistic attainments
by alternately preaching with equal facility and power both in
German and English, but also that tireless, energetic spirit
that heeded not mental or physical limitations, whenever or
wherever duty called.
This singular natural trait, this noble ambition to grapple
and overcome all obstacles and inequalities encountered in life,
grew with his growth and strengthened with his years, so that
at sixty the drain on his mental and physical resources was
simply appalling.
Recognizing his superior abilities, the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of North America, in 1873, decided to send him to
Richmond, Virginia, there to assume the pastorate of an Inde-
pendent Congregation, in which the seeds of discord had become
rampant.
The transfer to this new field of labor was obviously an
enigmatical proposition that, apart from his keen judgment,
tact and finely poised temperament, called for the highest moral
courage and personal sacrifice, especially when it is remem-
bered that the Hubers, true to their Helvetic love of liberty
were, one and all, unalterably opposed to slavery, whilst in
those stirring days of "Reconstruction" in the South, especi-
ally in Richmond, the Capital of the erstwhile Confederacy,
there was prevalent a strong and deep current of sentiment
hostile to the new order of conditions as evolved by the war.
Time, patience and indomitable perseverance overleaps all
barriers.
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As a faithful and exemplary follower of Him who enjoined
upon his disciples: "This is my Commandment, That ye love
one another as I have loved you,"—he devoted the best years
of his young manhood to unite the contending factions; to
bring order out of chaos, and by divine precept and manly
example eventually succeeded in establishing one of the largest
and most flourishing congregations in the city that, like
ancient Rome, is built on seven hills.
After a pastorate of tea years, during which the name
of Pastor Huber had become an endearing and familiar house-
hold word in that community he was, in 1882, called to St.
Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baltimore, where,
after crowning his life's labors in the vinyard of humanity
with twenty-three years of the most arduous and successful
labors of any of his compeers, irrespective of creed, he was
gathered to his fathers in July 9th, 1906, in the very zenith
of his magnificent intellectual development and usefulness,
reverentially loved and mourned by his Congregation, his wide
circle of personal friends, and his exceptionally large number of
beneficiaries of his broad, non-sectarian benevolence among the
poor and lowly no less than by the community at large.
A disconsolate, sorrow-stricken wife, Louisa, nee Cordes;
three daughters, Amanda, Emma and Louisa; and two sons,
J. Olie and Frederick W., mourn their irreparable loss.
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Nature cast Eduard Huber, physically, intellectually and
morally in an heroic mould.
His imposing, powerfully developed figure; the massive
leonine head surmounted with its flowing mane-like locks; the
large, mobile features, indicative of the highest physical and
mental activities and strong moral attributes, together with
the radiant, genial rays reflecting through his soulful eyes the
grandeur of the storehouse within the dome of thought and
reason, combined to make up the physical outlines of one of
the noblest specimen of God's handiwork.
The high ideals and aspirations of his youth, together
with his ever ready and generous impulses to do and dare for
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the right, were never permitted to be swerved from their course
by temporary discouragements, nor dampened by the chill
frosts of time.
He heeded not the significant admonition of encroaching
years, nor the ever increasing demands on his time and talents,
which, like the ripple caused by the falling stone in the placid
waters of the lake, spread from centre to circumference, only
to finally break on the strand.
Near the close of life's journey, when passing the three-
score milestone, he had assumed more duties and responsibilities
than ever before, having among other pastoral duties introduced
a bi-lingual service in his church—German in the morning and
English at night, an arrangement deemed wise and necessary
to supply the oncoming generations with the word of God in
their native tongue.
During the twenty-three years of his pastoral activity at
St. Matthew's Church in Baltimore, he organized three churches:
Christ's Church, Locust Point; St. Peter's Chapel, on Federal
Street near Gay, and St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran
Church, at Homestead on the Harford Road.
He also founded the German Evangelical Immigrant and
Seamans' Home (Deutsches Evangelisches Emigranten- und
Seemannsheim) in this city.
He devoted years of unremitting efforts to establish this
Home on a permanent basis, the obstacles encountered at times
seeming almost insurmountable.
Realizing, however, its necessity, he never wavered in his
purpose until crowned with success.
It is a lasting monument of his humanitarian zeal and
devotion in the interest and protection of German immigrants
and sailors, and that, too, from a man who, since his 9th
year—his arrival in America—to the day of his death had his
being, life and associations almost exclusively among Germans,
and yet was by birth and descent a Swiss, and as such had
never put foot on German soil or territory.
When, in 1873, he went to Richmond, Virginia, to assume
charge of the congregation there he was the only minister of
his denomination in the Atlantic States, whilst today the
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Atlantic District of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church
numbers 45 congregations with as many ministers in charge.
For eleven years he was continuously president of the
Atlantic District, eventually declining re-election.
At the time of his death he was Supreme Judge of the
Ministerial Union of his Synod—the highest judicial body of
the denomination.
Pastor Huber, apart from the many and exacting duties
devolving upon him as pastor of the large and flourishing Con-
gregation of St. Matthew's Church, manifested great and active
interest in the sciences, and in sacred, natural and profane
history.
For more than thirty years he devoted his leisure hours
to the study and investigation of natural history, finding therein
rest and recreation.
The field of micro-organisms was one of particular interest
and pleasure.
He was a recognized authority on Diatoms and Radiolaria,
having succeeded in making many highly important discoveries
in this special field of science.
He also mounted and photographed the fossil diatoms and
radiolaria for the reports of the Maryland Geological Survey.
This singular investigating turn of mind in the field of
diatomic science, and to attempt, speculatively, to lift the
mysterious veil of the past in nature, he was pleased to designate
as his "hobby."
But, notwithstanding his natural predilection for scientific
delving into the remote chambers of nature's storehouse, he
never for a moment forgot that he was "Pastor Huber," nor
the duties devolving upon him as such.
As a member of the "Microscopic Society of Johns Hopkins
University" he contributed many highly interesting papers and
exhibits of original research.
He was a member of "The Maryland Academy of Sciences,"
and the "Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis."
For many years, and up to the day of his death, he was
actively interested as a member of the "Board of Directors"
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of the German Society of Maryland (Die Deutsche Gesellschaft
von Maryland, gegründet in 1783), the "German Orphan
Asylum" (Allgemeines Deutsches Waisenhaus), and "The
German Aged Peoples' Home (Deutsches Greisenheim).
As chairman of the Executive Committee of "The Society
for the History of the Germans in Maryland (Gesellschaft für
die Geschichte der Deutschen in Maryland), the duties of which
he had for many years discharged with fidelity and ability, his
absence has left a void that the ameliorating flight of Time
alone can efface.
The Swiss Society (Schweizer-Verein) justly claimed him
as its most distinguished and highly honored member.
The Book of Books—the Holy Bible—that constitutes the
rule and guide of our race, and upon which "Pastor Huber"
had built his triumphant faith, says: "Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend."
What, then, shall be said of him, who, in
his conception
and understanding of duty in the light and reasoning powers
as given him by nature and nature's God, immolated himself
a willing, yea, cheerful sacrifice on the altar of duty, whilst
pursuing his tireless striving for the amelioration, uplifting
and enlightenment of his fellow-beings?
What shall the harvest be for such a husbandman?
J. LEONARD HOFFMAN.
CHARLES W. SCHNEIDEREITH
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Charles William Schneidereith.
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Born in Elbing, Prussia, July 10, 1814, died in Baltimore,
Md., June 1st, 1906, in the 92nd year of his age.
At a very tender age, in keeping with the custom of those
days, Mr. Schneidereith was apprenticed in his native town to
"The Art preservative of all Arts"—printing.
Completing his apprenticeship, and arriving at what was
then termed "Wanderjähren"—years of travel and experience
"in der Fremde"—an imperative requirement imposed at that
time upon every newly fledged journeyman, whatever his calling,
he, responsive to his high ideals and inspirations of the fires
of youthful ambition, naturally turned his steps toward Leipzig,
then known as one of the foremost publishing and printing
centers in Germany, if not of all Europe.
Profiting by years of varied instructive experience in Leipzig
and Minden, he accepted a flattering offer from a publishing
house at Verviers, Belgium, where he soon gained the confidence
and esteem of his employers to such a degree that he became
for a number of years the manager of one of the largest
establishments in the line of his profession throughout Belgium.
In 1849, then in the very prime of life, he carried out the
long cherished plans of emigrating to "the land of the free"—
the young republic of the Western Hemisphere—the land of
liberty and promise and the mecca of the continuous stream
of his countrymen.
After settling in Baltimore he identified himself with the
"Baltimore Herald," a bi-weekly German paper, which, a short
time thereafter was merged into the "Baltimore Wecker," pub-
lished and edited by the late Carl Heinrich Schnauffer.
Later, in 1849, he courageously struck out for himself and
established the best equipped and most favorably known Ger-
man and English book and job printing house in the city,
now being successfully conducted by his sons.
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Later, in the "beginning of the 60's, he ventured into jour-
nalism by publishing a weekly paper with the euphonious title
"Die Glocke am Sonntag," edited by Dr. Theo. Munder, the
title of which was subsequently changed to "Der Leuchtthurm,"
edited by Alexander Wolff, a prominent German-American
lawyer of that day.
The Civil War, however, proved that the time for this
undertaking was unpropitious, and it was discontinued. Pro-
minent among the later publications are "Der Sinai," by Dr.
David Einhorn; "Der Lutherische Kirchenfreund," a weekly
published by the Lutheran Synod of the United States; "Der
Freund Israels," published by Dr. P. Weber; "Mitteilungen
des Deutsch-Amerikanischen Techniker Verbandes ;" Gemeinde-
blatt der Zionskirche in Baltimore, and the numerous and
diversified publications, covering a period of over forty years,
of the late Rev. Henry Scheib.
Among the best specimen of the printers' art ever produced
in Baltimore were the prayerbooks by Dr. Benj. Szold and Dr.
Henry Hochheimer.
For years the reports of "The German Society of Mary-
land" (1783) ; The German Orphan Asylum (Allgemeines Deut-
sches Waisenhaus); The German Aged Peoples' Home (Deut-
sches Greisenheim), together with the wants and necessities of
everything in the range of the printer's art by the various
German Corporations, Societies, Lodges, Churches, etc. have
been published by this establishment.
At the time of his demise he was the oldest practical
printer in Baltimore, both as to years and service, and with
his singular purity of character and sturdy business acumen,
he was an honored landmark, respected by all classes as a
faithful exemplification of the gentleman of the old school,
and a model citizen of the present.
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Alexander H. Schulz.
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Mr. Alexander H. Schulz, one of the oldest active mem-
bers of this Society died July 5th, 1905, in the 77th year of
his age.
Mr. Schulz was born in Jever, Germany, from whence he
emigrated to America, arriving in Baltimore in September, 1850.
For many years he was one of the best known and most
successful business men in the Eastern section (Fell's Point)
of the city, especially in the shipping interests located there.
He was also well known and highly esteemed in the finan-
cial circles of the city, having for many years been president
of the German Bank, and also of the German Fire Insurance
Company.
During his long and busy career as merchant and financier,
he was ever in sympathetic touch with all the leading organ-
izations of his fellow-countrymen, being especially interested,
among others, in the German Aged Peoples' Home (Greisen-
heim), the German Orphan Asylum, the German Society of
Maryland, and Zion's (Scheib's) Church, in the latter of which
he served as president of the vestry for many years.