GERMAN-AMERICAN ENTERPRISES AND
INSTITUTIONS OF BALTIMORE: PART III
n this issue of the Report the Society for the
History of the Germans in Maryland salutes
the Schmidt Baking Company, the Potthast
furniture Company, the engineering firm of
Edward Renneburg and Sons, the J. Furst
printing company, the Baltimore Correspondent,
the Stein family, and the Greisenheim, the Ger-
man home for the aged which eventually be-
came the retirement community we now know
as Edenwald.
The Schmidt Baking Company
The history of this venerable institution be-
gan in 1886 when Elizabeth and Peter Schmidt,
recent German immigrants, began to operate a
small bread bakery in their Baltimore home.
Elizabeth Schmidt, whose maiden name was
Mimms, had arrived in this country in 1867, at
age seventeen, and had settled in Baltimore,
where she met and later married Peter Schmidt
in Emmanuel Reformed Church on Schroeder
Street on April 5, 1874. Even before her mar-
riage she had come to enjoy local renown,
thanks to the savory loaves of home-baked
bread with which she expressed her ap-
preciation for her neighbors' kindnesses. It was
her neighbors' compliments that eventually in-
spired her and her husband to experiment
with a small bread baking operation in their
home with Elizabeth baking the bread and
Peter delivering it. The venture was a success,
but during the early years the Schmidts could
not have imagined, of course, that out of such
modest beginnings in 1886 one of the top fif-
teen bakeries in the nation would ultimately
develop. By the time the Schmidt Baking Com-
pany celebrated its centennial, in 1986, it had
become the largest independent premium line
wholesale bakery in the mid-Atlantic region,
employing approximately fourteen hundred
people and with seventeen distribution centers.
In spite of its great size, however, the com-
pany was still a family enterprise, for it was
managed at that time by the sons of Peter and
Elizabeth, Ernest and Charles Schmidt, who
had both entered the business as young men.
Charles Schmidt, who was president until 1929,
was succeeded in that year by his son, Carl.
After Carl's death in 1964 his twin sisters,
Katherine and Ernestine, and his widow took
over the duties of managing the company. In
the centennial year, 1986, Katharine's sons,
Bernard "Roddy" Smith, Jr. and Peter Smith,
were respectively president and vice-president
of operations, while two of Ernestine's sons,
Tom Bowyer and Charles Bowyer, held the of-
fices of vice-president for administration and
vice-president for sales.
In March 1984, two years before the cen-
tennial, the Schmidt Baking Company com-
pleted construction of a forty-eight thousand
square foot plant in Baltimore County. The
production capacity of this new plant in 1986
was one hundred and forty-five thousand
loaves of bread and seventy thousand packages
of rolls daily.
In a speech during the centennial year
Roddy Smith, while expressing pride in his
company's impressive growth during its first
hundred years, also pointed out that its success
as a business enterprise was due not only to ex-
pert management, but also to its having pre-
served and refined the baking skills which had
made people eager to buy his great-grand-
mother's bread in the early days: "Great-grand-
mother Schmidt," he recalled, "was known for
the skill she put into her home-made bread. Al-
though we've grown beyond her wildest
dreams, one thing hasn't changed. We still care
about the quality of our products, and each
day we try to measure up to the standards of
that dear German-American baker, Elizabeth.
We'd like her to know that our customers still
value a good loaf of Schmidt's bread."
The Potthast Furniture Company
Technical skills and craftmanship of a high
order also assured the success of Baltimore's
nationally known furniture firm, Potthast
Brothers, Inc., founded in 1892 by William A.
and Vincent Potthast who had received their
training as master cabinetmakers in their na-
tive Germany. William and Vincent were later
joined by their brothers, John and Theodore,
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who had also mastered the art of cabinetmak-
ing in the famed cabinetmaking shops of
Borgholzhausen.
The Potthast brothers opened their first cab-
inetmaking shop at the intersection of Howard
and Lexington Streets, then moved, in 1913, to
a larger location at 507 North Howard Street.
The beauty of the brothers' hand-made repro-
ductions and their expert restorations of an-
tique furniture soon brought them renown as
fine craftsmen, and orders began to pour in. In
1921 Potthast Brothers, Inc. acquired a large
factory at 1438 Wicomoco Street and also
opened showrooms at 702 North Howard
Street. Two years later salesrooms and offices
were added at 924 North Charles Street. Even-
tually, the firm opened showrooms in New York
City, Washington, D. C., and San Francisco.
One of the firm's early important commis-
sions was furnishing the Maryland House at
the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. In an in-
terview with Fred Judd of the "Evening Sun" in
1987 Theodore J. Potthast recalled that the
firm had also made a dining room set for Presi-
dent Wilson when ne left the White House,
chairs for Hollywood film producer Cecil B.
Demille, a dining set for the State House in An-
napolis in addition to pieces for Elsie DeWolfe
Hopper and for Tiffany in New York.
When the Potthast Company closed its doors
in 1975 it had 35 employees. At that point,
however, Theodore J. Potthast had no one to
carry on the business, as he explained to Mr.
Judd, and he also faced ever rising costs and a
growing scarcity of qualified craftsmen. Hap-
pily we have a well documented record of
much of the firm's work, for the copying
books, as Theodore Potthast told Mr. Judd, "in-
clude sketches of all kinds of furniture" and
"the State of Maryland has a record, on micro-
film, of correspondence and sketches through-
out the years."
When the Potthast firm closed, Richard H.
Randall, Jr., the director of the Walters Art
Gallery at the time, recalled that "literally hun-
dreds of Baltimore homes" had Potthast furni-
ture in dining rooms and hallways." Sam W.
Rea, auctioneer at Sam W. Pattison and Com-
pany, commented that "the Potthast name
here is just like magic;bidding is always brisk
for Potthast pieces." This is still true today.
Edward Renneburg and Sons, Co.
Edward Renneburg, the founder of this engi-
neering and steel fabricating firm, came to Bal-
timore from Hamburg, Germany while still in
his teens and soon found an opportunity to ply
his trade in a hardware store in southeast Bald-
more. In time, his sons came to work with him,
Philip helping with designing and Henry assist-
ing with other aspects of the business. In the
early years of the twentieth century the Ren-
neburgs moved to larger quarters on Aliceanna
Street and began to produce machinery for
canning, oyster-processing, and fruit-packing.
When additional space again became necessary
the Renneberg purchased in 1912 a building
previously owned by the Chipman Chair Fac-
tory at the intersection of Boston and Lake-
wood avenues in Canton. In these more spa-
cious quarters the firm was not only able to
build a more efficient steel fabricating shop,
but also to outfit a wharf for the maintenance
and repair of harbor craft and fishing steamers.
At this time the Chesapeake menhaden fish-
ing industry was fast developing, and to capital-
ize on the possibilities offered by this expand-
ing industry the Renneburgs began to design
and manufacture cookers, presses, and dryers
for converting menhaden and other small fish
into fertilizers, also extracting from them in
the process oils for use in manufacturing
paints and varnishes and for tempering steel.
Under the able management of Philip, who
succeeded his father as president, the firm's
reputation continued to grow, and soon orders
were coming in from Iceland, Japan, Russia
and other foreign countries for renneburg ma-
chines. During World War I the company
helped the war effort by extracting potash
from kelp for munitions manufacturing. The
war years brought yet another opportunity to
expand operations. Growing scarcity of grain-
feed, with resultant higher prices, was causing
numerous cattlemen to turn to fishmeal as an
alternative, and the Renneburg Company was
easily able to help meet the ever-increasing de-
mand by producing fishmeal.
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When John N. Renneburg succeeded his fa-
ther, Philip, as president in 1946 orders were
coming in for Renneburg machinery from
plants in the United States, Canada, India, Ko-
rea, Iran, and Jordan. By then, too, the firm's
recently developed machinery for processing
animal bones for photographic gelatines
where also in use in Sweden, Belgium, and
Germany.
In 1985 the Canton area was rezoned from
heavy industrial to light commercial and resi-
dential use. The Renneburg Company was thus
compelled to move to a different location, if it
wished to continue production. Its historic
headquarters, built shortly after the Civil War,
were acquired by Historic Developers, Inc. of
Philadelphia. Since the U. S. Government was
then considering eliminating the tax credit al-
lowed for preserving and restoring buildings of
historic value, the Renneburg Company was
forced to vacate its headquarters within three
months. To meet this deadline the company
sold its machinery to the Industrial Plants Cor-
poration of New York City, which sold the ma-
chinery at auction. By 1986 the Renneburg
Company had become a division of Heyl and
Patterson, Inc., Engineers and Constructors of
Pittsburgh, which had acquired what had re-
mained of the company after the sale of its ma-
chinery. For a few years after that the Renneb-
urg Company maintained an engineering and
sale office in Baltimore which was its last con-
nection with the city in which it had been
founded.
The J. H. Furst Printing Company
After their arrival in this country from Ger-
many in the 1840's John, Adam., and Joseph
Furst settled in three different cities, John in
New York, Adam in Cincinnati, and Joseph in
Baltimore, where he found a good situation as
a house-builder. In 1850 Joseph married
Sophia Grace Helmling of York, Pennsylvania.
Four of their seven sons, J. Harry, Jacob H.,
Frederick V., and Joseph A., Jr., became print-
ers and were employed by the John Murphy
Printing Company until that establishment was
destroyed in the great Baltimore fire of 1904.
When the John Murphy Company decided not
to reopen after the fire the Furst brothers
started their own printing business in a small
warehouse on Light Street and began by print-
ing publications formerly brought out by the
John Murphy Company. The business pros-
pered, and soon the Fursts were obliged to
move to larger quarters on Hanover Street.
From that address they moved to the Engel
Building on Hopkins Place, where they re-
mained for several years, and from there to the
Candler Building on Market Place, which was
their headquarters until the Candler Building
was converted into offices.
A notable commission of the Furst Compa-
ny's early years was the private printing in 1907
of The Education of Henry Adams in a limited
edition of 100 copies. Another important early
commission was the printing of American Mar-
itime Cases from 1924 on. As years passed the
firm acquired a special reputation for its ability
to print copy in a number of ancient and mod-
ern languages. Thanks to this skill, the firm has
able to attract as clients several institutions of
higher learning, among which were The
Catholic University of America, Harvard,
Princeton, Yale, the University of North Car-
olina, and the Johns Hopkins University. By the
time the four co-founders had reached retire-
ment age Frederick's sons, Victor J., Frederick
V., and William W., and his daughter,
Gertrude, were already members of the firm
and eventually assumed full responsibility for
carrying on the firm's work. The present presi-
dent, in the firm's new headquarters at 238
South Eden Street, is Francis Furst. His son,
John entered the business two years ago; his
wife does proofreading; and John's wife assists
with sales and other aspects of the business. In
recent years changes of various kinds have
been made because of advances in electronic
printing, but the firm continues to do letter-
press, off-set, and type-setting, and also some
binding, as in the past.
As the Furst Company approaches its cen-
tennial year it can look back with justifiable
pride over a long history of satisfied clients.
Over the years authors and editors have repeat-
edly praised its uncompromising standards of
workmanship, diligence, and painstaking care
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in executing orders. The high level of crafts-
manship consistently maintained by the firm,
the close working relations between employers
and employees, and the firm's many contribu-
tions to the education and training of mem-
bers of younger printing firms have even
prompted some of its admirers to liken it, quite
aptly, to a medieval guild.
The account of the J. H. Furst family submit-
ted in 1986 by Mary Furst, Honorary Treasurer,
also mentions another distinguished member
of the Furst family, William Wallace Furst,
whose accomplishments as a composer helped
to bring renown to Baltimore as a musical cen-
ter in the nineteenth century. Born in Balti-
more in 1852, William Furst studied music and
composition and was for a time organist and
choirmaster of Immaculate Conception
Church. He also wrote music and first gained
recognition for his work as a composer when
he was invited to join the staff of the Tivoli
Opera House in San Francisco. On that stage
his first and only grand opera, Theodora, was
produced. From San Francisco Furst went to
New York, where he soon acquired a reputation
as a composer of incidental music. He also
composed light operas. One of these, The Elec-
tric Light, commemorates a Baltimore first: the
installation of arc lights at Marsh Market in
1881. Princess Nicotine premiered in 1892 with
Lillian Russell as the lead. Two years later, Delia
Fox starred in The Little Trouper, also a comic
opera. The most popular of Furst's light operas
was doubtless The Isle Champagne which had a
run of six years. Furst also composed incidental
music for several successful theatrical produc-
tions, including The Girl of the Golden West in
1905, starring Blanche Bates and Frank Ken-
nan, and James M. Barry's The Little Minister in
1907 with Maude Adams and Robert Edison.
The Baltimore Correspondent During the first
four decades of the nineteenth century only
Germanlanguage newspapers published in
other cities were available to Baltimore Ger-
mans. The first successful effort to provide a
local German-language paper was Friedrich
Raine's "Der deutsche Correspondent," which
began appearing as a weekly in February, 1841.
Two main reasons for its success were doubtless
that while focusing on local matters of practi-
cal concern it also carried articles about Ger-
mans living in other parts of the country.
Other papers attempted to compete with it
from time to time, but none had enough ap-
peal to displace it. Until America entered
World War I it was the leading German publi-
cation in Baltimore. Like German-language
newspapers in other American cities, it lost
readers during the war. After the war circula-
tion figures continued to decline, for by then
English had become the household language
in many German families.
The final chapter in the history of "Der
deutsche Correspondent" began in 1929 when
the paper, whose readership had by then de-
clined considerably, was acquired by Valentine
J. Peter of the Tribune Publishing Company in
Omaha, Nebraska. Under Peter's able man-
agement the paper, with a new title, "Baltimore
Correspondent," flourished. To assure its fi-
nancial solvency Peter, together with several
Baltimore businessmen, formed a corporation
in 1935 which eventually purchased from the
Tribune Publishing Company both the news-
paper and the printing facility which had been
producing it as a sixteen-page paper. The cor-
poration generated additional income by
printing advertising brochures and newspaper
supplements for local department stores and
also several weekly and monthly newspapers
and trade journals owned by other companies.
When Valentine Peter died in 1960 his sons,
Theodore Valentine and Bernard George, be-
came managers of the corporation and editors
of the paper. When Theodore resigned from
the corporation and paper in 1967 Bernard be
took over the reins until declining readership
and resultant decline in advertising revenue
necessitated liquidating both the corporation
and the paper in 1960. In the summer of that
year the corporation was dissolved. For the fol-
lowing three years the "Baltimore Correspon-
dent" was again printed in Omaha with
Bernard Peter continuing as manager. In De-
cember, 1971, Peter sold the paper to the New
York Staatszeitung, which incorporated the title
into its masthead until December, 1975, at
which time it ceased to exist.
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During its 134 years the "Baltimore Corre-
spondent" was always primarily a commercial
enterprise, but it also contributed in important
ways to the cultural life of its readers, as those
who remember it can attest.
The Stein Family
Among the Steins of Baltimore the study of
the law; has become, it would seem, a kind of
family tradition. Franz Leopold von Stein had
a law degree from, the University of Heidel-
berg when he came to America in 1833, but
did not practice in this country. His son, Attila
Edward, became a physician, but each genera-
tion after him produced a lawyer. The first of
these, Charles Francis Stein, born in 1866,
studied law at the University of Maryland and
was admitted to the Bar in 1889. He became a
member of the firm of Louis Hennighausen.
Like Hennighausen, who devoted considerable
time and energy to helping; newly-arrived Ger-
mans, Charles Francis also became involved
from early on in assisting newcomers and was
active in German-American organizations. In
his last case as trial advocate he became a par-
ticipant in an important moment in Maryland
history, for the case concerned the dissolution,
in 1921, of the American Colonization Society
in Maryland which had been founded in 1816
to promote the emancipation of slaves and to
enable blacks wishing to do so to return to
Africa. In that same year Governor Ritchie ap-
pointed him to the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City, on which he sat until his retirement
in 1936. After his retirement from the Bench
he continued to practice law with the firm of
Louis Hennighausen and Stein, specializing in
real estate and litigation. He also continued to
be active in German-American organizations.
Until his death in 1939 he was also a member
of the board of director of the General Ger-
man Aged People's Home, still popularly
known in those days as the Greisenheim.
Charles Francis Stein, Jr. was born in Bal-
timore in 1900, received his B. P. in history
from the Johns Hopkins University and was
graduated from the University of Maryland
School of Law in 1923. Like his father before
him, he joined the law firm of Hennighausen
and Stein and also specialized in wills and es-
tates and real estate law. His continuing in his-
tory interest in history is evident in his mono-
graph on the ground rent system in Maryland,
his brief history of the German battalion in the
American Revolution, his account of the Battle
of Baltimore, his two books on the history of
Calvert and Howard counties, and, as some
readers of the Report will remember, his papers
at meetings of the Society for the history of the
Germans in Maryland, of which he was presi-
dent from 1971-1975. He was also active in
other American-American societies until his
death in 1978.
Charles Francis Stein, III was graduated
from Princeton University in 1955 and re-
ceived his J. D. from the University of Virginia
School of Law in 1960, where he was on the law
review. Before going into practice with his fa-
ther in the firm of Stein and Jett he was the
law
clerk of Judge William L. Henderson of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland. His specialty,
like his father's, is real property and estate
planning. Since January, 1993, he has been of
counsel for the Towson law firm of Royston,
Mueller, McLean and Reid. To some people,
he says, "of counsel" may mean that a lawyer
has retired, but not in his case, for he still prac-
tices every day with the new firm and enjoys it.
He is married to Anne Farinholt, whose father,
L. Whiting Farinholt, Jr., taught for many years
at the University of Maryland School of Law.
She is a physical therapist whose specialty is
treating mentally and physically handicapped
children in the public school system. The
Steins have two children, a daughter, Laura,
who is presently working with autistic young
adults, and a son, Charles F. Stein, IV, who is
majoring in biology and minoring in geology
at Dickinson College. Charles Francis Stein's
sister, Jean Alexandra, is married to William
Kouvenhoven and also resides in Baltimore.
Like his grandfather and father, Charles Fran-
cis Stein, III is an active member of the Ger-
man Society of Maryland, the Society for the
history of the Germans in Maryland and the
General German Aged People's Home of Balti-
more. As a board member and attorney for
General German, he was instrumental in the
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planning for the creation of the life-care cen-
ter, Edenwald and, considers this work one of
the most significant accomplishments of his
legal career.
The General German Aged People's Home of
Baltimore and Edenwald
In April, 1881, at the suggestion of the
Allgemeine Arbeiter-Kranken-Unterstutzungsve-rein
[Workmen's Sick Benefits Alliance], a group of
Baltimoreans of German extraction met in the
old Mechanics Hall on Fayette Street to discuss
the possibility of founding a home where aged
Germans could spend their declining years in
comfort and security. The sense of the meeting
was that such an institution was indeed
needed. An organizational plan was adopted, a
charter was drafted, committees were ap-
pointed, and a Board of Directors was chosen.
On June 8, 1881, the Directors, Carl Yeber,
Hermann Graue, Frederick Wehr, Joel Gut-
man, Ernst Hoen, Ernst Knabe, Nicholas
Burkhardt, Jacob Pfister, Adolph Aichter, John
Fellmann, Christoph Bartell, and Louis Hen-
nighausen, filed a certificate of incorporation
for the projected home, which they designated
as Allgemeines Deutsches Greisenheim von Baltimore
[General German Home for the Aged of Balti-
more]. The first officers of the corporation
were also elected, Carl Weber as President,
Frederick Wehr as Vice-Président, Hermann
Graue as Treasurer, John Fellmann as Secre-
tary, and Louis Hennighausen as Financial
Secretary.
The Board's first official action was to
launch a fund-raising and membership drive,
which brought in $7,106.00 and increased the
corporation membership to 428. A rented
building on the northwest corner of Lombard
and Penn Streets was the first location of the
Greisenheim. The building was dedicated on
April 12, 1882, and the first resident was
Friedrich Gude. Eight months later the num-
ber of residents had increased to 18. Soon the
number of applicants exceeded the capacity of
the rented building, and the Board began to
draw up plans for a larger facility. The site cho-
sen, which the Board acquired for $12,813.75,
was he land known as Steuart's Hill, the estate
of General J. E. Steuart at the northeast corner
of Baltimore and Payson Streets. Initial capital
of $42,000.00 was contributed by the German
community of Baltimore, and the new struc-
ture rose apace. The dedication ceremonies
were held in May, 1885. Since the total capital
outlay for grounds, building, furnishings, and
equipment had amounted to more than
$100,000.00, a large debt had to be serviced.
By 1888, however, energetic fund-raising ef-
forts, especially those sponsored by the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Greisenheim,¹ had brought
in enough money to pay off the debt.
In its comfortable larger quarters the
Greisenheim, renamed in later years the Gen-
eral German Aged People's Home, served a
steadily growing number of elderly residents of
different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in
accordance with the constitution and by-laws of
the Corporation, which stipulated that the
home should "never be managed in any partic-
ular national, religious, political, or social ten-
dency, but shall have as principal object that of
making the later years of the residents and or
patients of the facilities as pleasant, quiet, and
free of worry or care as possible...."
By 1934 a still larger building had become
necessary to accommodate the growing num-
ber of applicants for admission. A bequest of
more than $150,000.00 in the will of Anton
Textor made it possible to plan for larger quar-
ters. The site acquired was the estate of Louis
Muller in Irvington known as "Sorrento," and
on September 25, 1935 ground was broken. By
early November, 1936, the new building was
ready for occupancy. Generous gifts from the
Ladies' Aid Society and other donors helped to
finance the infirmary wing added in 1957.
Two major changes, in 1979 and 1980, were
the abolition of the requirement that appli-
cants surrender their total assets in order to
qualify for admission to the home and the
merger with the Silver Cross Home at 1464
Greenwich Street. By then, too, it had become
evident that more space was needed and that
the facilities should be modernized. The cen-
tennial year, 1981, thus found the directors
busily discussing plans for a completely mod-
ern building.
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Edenwald, the new facility that resulted from
the directors' thoughtful planning, has two sec-
tions, an attractive eighteen-story high-rise
with 241 comfortable apartments of varying
size for independent living and an up-to-the-
minute 115-bed Health Care Center. In the
Health Center are forty-four tastefully fur-
nished domiciliary rooms with private baths
and access to medical and dental care, and, for
those requiring long-term care, the Compre-
hensive Care Unit of seventy-one beds.
Edenwald's location at 800 Southerly Road is
almost ideal from the standpoint of the resi-
dents' comfort and convenience. Directly
across Fairmount Avenue is Towsontown Cen-
ter; the Baltimore Beltway is nearby; several
bus lines are within walking distance; and a few
blocks away are churches, hospitals, senior cen-
ters, restaurants, grocery stores and other
stores, and a post office. The proximity of
Goucher College's large wooded campus also
offers Edenwald residents some of the plea-
sures of country living.
If the members of the first board of directors
and some of The earlier residents of the Gen-
eral German Aged People's Home could see
Edenwald's elegant lobby, its commodious
apartments, its tastefully appointed lounges
and meeting rooms, and its three fine dining
rooms, they would doubtless gape in amaze-
ment. While visiting Edenwald's other fine
amenities, its auditorium, store, and well-
stocked library, they would also be delighted to
find in the new building some of the pieces
which once embellished old General German,
as for example, the handsomely carved side-
boards throughout the building or the magnif-
icent Stieff roller-piano which is a unique ex-
ample of the craftmanship of the once
renowned Baltimore piano-building firm. In
speaking with present residents our visitors
from the past would be happy to learn that the
liberal admission policy adopted by the first
board of directors in 1881 is still in force: that
no applicant be refused admission on grounds
of ethnic or national background or religious
affiliation. They would also hear warm expres-
sions of appreciation of the many activities
available to the residents. In talking with pre-
sent directors they would surely also feel proud
to hear of the American Association of Homes
for the Aged warm commendation of Eden-
wald following its accreditation by the Continu-
ing Care Commission in 1992. This piece of in-
formation would certainly convince them, if
they had any doubts, that Edenwald ranks high
in comparison with top quality retirement
communities in the greater Baltimore area.
. William H. McClain
NOTES
'The Ladies' Aid Society was formed on February 3,
1882, several months before the first Greisenheim began ad-
mitting residents. The organizers were: Louise Hen-
nighausen, Auguste Mathes, Catherine Pfeil, Marie Plantz,
Elizabeth Tripr, and Johanna Wehr. The first officers were:
President, Mrs. Louise Hennigrhausen; Vice-President,
Mrs. Catherine Just: Secretary, Mrs. Elsie Fellman; Finan-
cial Secretary, Mrs. Sophie Szold; Treasurer, Mrs. Rosina
Sinsz.
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