In Photo: (Clockwise) Werner, Franklin, George, Max, Oswald, Sadie on William's lap. not shown is Anna who would have been a few months old when this photo was taken.
This webpage was created by Mr. Robert Garcia for the Schmittberger Family at large. He can be contacted at: camelot986@optonline.net
Note: I have recorded this family report in United States English; (my native Language), so the translation in German my be a little distorted. [r.g.]
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Descendants of Maximilian Frances Schmittberger
Generation No. 1
1. MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1 SCHMITTBERGER was born July 27,1851 in Wurzburg, Germany, and died November 14, 1917 in Manhattan, New York. He married SARAH GOLDIN June 1873. She was born 1849 in Dublin, Ireland, and died July 31, 1905 in Far Rockaway, New York.
Notes for MAXIMILIAN FRANCES SCHMITTBERGER:
NEW YORK TIMES NOVEMBER 17, 1917
M.F. SCHMITTBERGER POLICE CHIEF DEAD
Inspector, a Veteran for 43 Years' Service Dies of Pneumonia at his Home
SURVIVOR OF LEXOW FIGHT
Won Enmity of Tammany When He Revealed Police Graft in 1894. Excelled in Handling Mobs.
Max F. Schmittberger, Chief Inspector of the Police Department of the City of New York since 1909 and the principle survivor of Lexow's fight against Tammany to end graft twenty three years ago, died last night of pneumonia at his home, 237 East Sixty-First Street, in his sixty- seventh year. His six sons and daughter were at his bedside when he died.
He had an illness about the middle of August which pulled him down and received six month's leave of absence from Police Headquarters to recover his health. His son said last night that he went out last Thursday and contracted a cold, which developed into pneumonia, and the doctors gave up on all hope of his recovery on Tuesday night.
Max F. Schmittberger was born in Wurzburg; Germany, and came to the United States when he was 4 years old. He was educated in the public schools, and after trying his hand at two or three employments he joined the Police Department on January 28, 1874, became Rounds man April 12, 1880; Sergeant March 6, 1883, Captain December 8, 1890, and was made an Inspector by Commissioner Green on may 2, 1903.
During his Forty-three years connection with the New York Police, Schmittberger retained his quiet demeanor and dislike of publicity, which were his characteristics as a Patrolman, walking the streets of New York and at the last as Chief Inspector, which is the highest rank in the department that a Policeman can rise today.
When he turned State's evidence during the Lexow Investigations in 1894 he neither saved himself nor others in his testimony before the committee. In the Report of the Lexow Committee, Captain Schmittberger, as he was then, tells of collecting from $180 to $300 a month from his Wardmen, as head of the Steamboat Squad, and in other places in the report there are confessions of the graft collected by him in the days before the Lexow Committee started it's investigations. He was called a "squealer" by members of the police force for his evidence and incurred enmity of Tammany Hall for giving away the secrets of the graft collecting that had been going on in the City for years with out interruption.
The late technical head of the Police Department was seen at his beat in handling large crowds and commanding large bodies of men. He was very strict, but was always just enough to listen in a case where punishment had been meted out undeserved. One of his favorite stunts was to visit the stations quietly when the Patrolmen were going out on duty to see if they saluted the officers at the desk, and also to note whether he returned it in the proper manner. If they were slack in their methods, Schmittberger would say, "Come back here men and salute the desk Now then Officer," and the ceremony would be preformed in a smart military fashion to his satisfaction.
Orders were sent out from Police Headquarters last night place the flags over the Stations in New York City today at half -mast, and to continue until the late Chief Inspectors funeral had taken place.
Authorities: New York Times; Inc., November 17, 1914. "Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens" (c) 1936. "Commissioner Roosevelt ", by, H. Paul Jeffers (C) 1994. "Descendants of Max F Schmittberger" by, Mr. Robert Garcia (c) 2008.
More About MAXIMILIAN FRANCES SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: November 18, 1917, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Immigration: October 1862, from Liverpool, England to Hoboken, New Jersey. lived nineteen years in Newark, New Jersey before moving to Manhattan, New York.
Naturalization: September 1873 in Brooklyn, New York.
Occupation: Chief Inspector of the New York City Police Department.
Notes for SARAH GOLDIN:
New York Times August 1, 1905.
MRS. SCHMITTBERGER DEAD.
Wife of the Police Inspector a Victim of Spinal Meningitis
Mrs. Sarah Schmittberger, wife of the Police Inspector, died at her home at Lockwood and Grandville Avenues, Far Rockaway, yesterday afternoon, of cerebral meningitis. She had been ill since last winter when she had an attack of pneumonia. Last Spring the Inspector took his wife to Far Rockaway hoping that her health would be improved. Mrs. Schmittberger was fifty - seven years old. The funeral will be held Thursday from St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church. the burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
More About SARAH GOLDIN:
Burial: August 02, 1905, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
More About MAXIMILIAN SCHMITTBERGER and SARAH GOLDIN:
Marriage: June 1873
Children of MAXIMILIAN SCHMITTBERGER and SARAH GOLDIN are:
i. WILLIAM GEORGE2 SCHMITTBERGER, b. June 18, 1874, Manhattan, New York.; d. March 29, 1939, Valley Stream, New York.; m. THERESA GIBLIN; b. Abt. 1880, Manhattan.; d. August 08, 1959, Valley Stream, New York.
Notes for WILLIAM GEORGE SCHMITTBERGER:
THE NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 30, 1939
WILLIAM SCHMITTBERGER
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Son of Chief Inspector Headed Detective Agency Here
Special to The New York Times
VALLEY STREAM L. I. March 29.- William G. Schmittberger, retired head of the Schmittberger Detective Agency in New York and a son of the late Max F. Schmittberger, former Chief Inspector of the New York Police Department, died of a heart attack last night in his home here. He was 64 years old.
Surviving are his widow, a sister, Miss. Anna Schmittberger, and four brothers, George; Frank, Max and Oswald Schmittberger.
More About WILLIAM GEORGE SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: March 31, 1939, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Occupation: Private Detective, co-owned and operated the Schmittberger Detective Agency, an affiliate of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was also an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance. Among his clientele were the Astors, Vanderbilts and Roosevelts.
More About THERESA GIBLIN:
Burial: August 11, 1959, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
2. ii. GEORGE CHARLES SCHMITTBERGER, b. 1877, Manhattan, New York; d. Unknown.
iii. MAXIMILIAN FRANCES SCHMITTBERGER, b. 1882, Manhattan, New York.; d. Abt. 1940, Ossining, New York.
Notes for MAXIMILIAN FRANCES SCHMITTBERGER:
Brooklyn Eagle May 27, 1897
Max Schmittberger, 15 years old, the son of a New York police captain, was accidentally shot in the temple in the shooting gallery of a church fair in New York last night.
New York Times May 30, 1897
CHARLES SCHRAGGE ARRESTED, IT WAS HE WHO WOUNDED YOUNG SCHMITTBERGER
The condition of Max Schmittberger, who is lying at the Mount Sinai Hospital with a Bullet in his brain, was the same yesterday as it had been since he was shot at St. Vincent's Church fair Wednesday night. There is a chance for his recovery, but it is a slight one, and the physicians have held out no hope. Capt. and Mrs. Schmittberger, the boy's parents, have a room adjoining the sickroom, and are with him constantly.
Charles Schragge, the boy who shot young Schmittberger, was arrested yesterday. He is seventeen years old and lives at 202 East Sixty-third Street. No one but Capt. Schmittberger believes the shooting was anything but an accident. Capt. Schmittberger said he had learned that his son was Standing out of the line of fire and was good naturally joking Schragge, who deliberately pointed the rifle at him and fired.
William Schmittberger, brother to Max, learned that Schragge fired the shot and located him after the police of the East Sixty-seventh Street Police Station failed. Walsh and Brown of Capt. Schmittberger's Precinct made the arrest and took their prisoner to Mount Sinai hospital. There he saw Mrs. Schmittberger. He told her how the shooting was done and assured her that it was accidental. He said he had never fired a rifle before, and did not know it had gone off until after Max had fallen.
Mrs. Schmittberger said she believed him, and asked Capt. Schmittberger to withdraw the complaint he had made. The Captain said he had not decided what to do in the matter. As a police officer he does not know if he is justified in refusing to prosecute.
Young Schragge and the Schmittberger boys have been good friends for some time. They went to the fair together Wednesday night, and had no quarrel.
Brooklyn Eagle May 30, 1897
SCHMITTBERGER IMPROVING
At the Mount Sinai hospital, New York, this morning, it is said that young Max Schmittberger, the son of Police Captain Schmittberger, who was accidentally shot at the shooting gallery at the Dominican fair on last Tuesday night, was considerably improved and hopes are now entertained that he will recover. He was conscious at times during the night and recognized his father and mother, who are continually at his bedside.
Brooklyn Eagle May 30, 1897
Surgery and the X-Ray *
A recent case which the X-ray has been used, is that of young Schmittberger, son of a New York police captain, who was shot in the head through carelessness. The bullet has been located and though its removal for the present may not be advisable, the fact that its place is known simplifies the duties of the physicians and nurses and may conduce to the ease of the patient. Sundry complaints as to the effect of the X ray in burning and scarring the surface of the body will enforce caution as to its use, under the present system, but that it is capable and of great benefit is no longer doubted.
* The X-Ray machine was invented by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, and was still in its experimental stage when used at the Mount Sinai Hospital in 1897. [r.g.]
More About MAXIMILIAN FRANCES SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: Abt. 1940, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
3. iv. WERNER HYACHINTHS SCHMITTBERGER, b. December 30, 1883, Manhattan, New York. d. September 02, 1936, Valley Stream, New York.
v. FRANKLIN JOHN SCHMITTBERGER, b. April 19, 1884, Manhattan, New York.; d. June 11, 1959, Brooklyn, New York.; m. LAVINIA "SMITH"; b. August 12, 1894, Manhattan, New York.; d. June 1978, Brooklyn, New York.
Notes for FRANKLIN JOHN SCHMITTBERGER:
He was left one dollar in his Father's Will.
The New York Times November 25, 1917
The will of Max F. Schmittberger, Chief Inspector of the New York Police Department, was filed for probate yesterday, and shows that his entire estate consisted of $6,000 in personal property, of which $2,000 goes to Woodlawn Cemetery for the upkeep of the family burial plot. Anna M. Schmittberger, daughter, gets two-fifths of the residue and the remainder is divided between his sons, with the exception of his son, Franklin, who gets only $1.
More About FRANKLIN JOHN SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: June 13, 1959, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Namesake: "His Father's Horse"
Occupation: He was a Bank Teller for Chase Manhattan Bank.
More About LAVINIA "SMITH":
Burial: June 1978, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
4. vi. OSWALD ORTHENDOFER SCHMITTBERGER, b. 1886, Manhattan, New York.; d. June 13, 1949, Whitestone, New York.
vii. SADIE SARAH SCHMITTBERGER, b. February 22, 1890, Manhattan, New York.; d. November 25, 1914, Manhattan, New York.
Notes for SADIE SARAH SCHMITTBERGER:
Was very close friends with Alice (Roosevelt) Longworth and attended the same Private School.
New York Times November 28, 1914
Miss. Sadie S. Schmittberger, eldest daughter of Max F. Schmittberger, Chief Inspector of the Police Department, died Thursday November 25 at her home 237 East Sixty-Seventh Street in her twenty - seventh year. She was a graduate of the Sacred Heart Convent.
More About SADIE SARAH SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: November 27, 1914, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Ordination: Nun of the Catholic Church.
Residence: Sacred Heart Convent.
viii. ANNA MARIE SCHMITTBERGER, b. February 21, 1894, Manhattan, New York.; d. March 15, 1981, Huntington, New York.
More About ANNA MARIE SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: March 18, 1981, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Occupation: Educator.
Generation No. 2
2. GEORGE CHARLES2 SCHMITTBERGER (MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born 1877 in Manhattan, New York, and died Unknown. He married MARY BARBARA RICHTER June 12, 1916 in Boonton, New Jersey., daughter of GEORGE RICHTER. She was born April 19, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, and died November 1975 in Whitestone, New York.
More About GEORGE CHARLES SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: Unknown, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Military service: United States Army Company C, 7th Regiment New York during World War 1.
More About MARY BARBARA RICHTER:
Burial: November 1975, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Marriage Notes for GEORGE SCHMITTBERGER and MARY RICHTER:
New York Times June 13, 1916
POPE'S BLESSINGS ON BRIDAL COUPLE
George C. Schmittberger Marries Miss. Mary B. Richter
In Boonton Church.
FOUR CLERGYMEN OFFICIATE
New York Police Inspectors and Captains and Members of Company C, 7th Regiment, Among Guests.
Boonton, N. J., June 12- The Marriage of Miss. Mary Barbara Richter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Richter, and George Charles Schmittberger, son of Chief Inspector of police of New York, Max F. Schmittberger, was celebrated here this afternoon in the Church of Our Lady of Carmel. Noticeable among the guest were the Inspectors and Captains of the New York police and members of Company C, Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., who were in dress uniform.
Blessings from Pope Benedict XV were bestowed on the couple, the blessing and felicitations, cabled from Rome, being given as a benediction.
The music of the high nuptial mass was sung by a quartet from the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York. The officiating clergymen included the Rev. James T. Delehanty, Rector of the Church; the Rev. Edward O'Mally of Ridgewood, N. J.; and the Rev. John McGurk of New York.
The bride wore a gown of white satin and silver lace with a court train depending from the shoulders. Her veil of Limerick lace fell from a cap effect. Her only ornament was a diamond and sapphire brooch, the gift of the bride groom.
Miss. Gertrude Richter, the maid of honor, was in pale blue.
The bride's maids were the Misses Helen Meskill, Josephine Meskill, Bonnie Halpin, and Genevieve Battsby. They all wore frocks of pink taffeta and tulle. Little Celia Heide acted as flower girl and was dressed in a white frock with touches of pink.
Oswald Schmittberger, who came from Alaska to attend his brother, was best man. The ushers included Alexander Regan, Joseph Conlon, and Werner Schmittberger all of New York, and George Richter and Charles Kramer, Jr, the latter from Boonton.
A large reception and bridal breakfast followed the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents in Reserve Street. Later the couple left for the Yellowstone Park on their honeymoon, and will live in New York on their return.
More About GEORGE SCHMITTBERGER and MARY RICHTER:
Marriage: June 12, 1916, Boonton, New Jersey.
Child of GEORGE SCHMITTBERGER and MARY RICHTER is:
5. i. SALLY GAYLE3 SCHMITTBERGER, b. September 11, 1917, Manhattan, New York.; d. December 21, 1999, Lake Havasau, Arizona.
3. WERNER HYACHINTHS2 SCHMITTBERGER (MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born December 30, 1883 in Manhattan, New York., and died September 02, 1936 in Valley Stream, New York. He married CATHERINE ELIZABETH.
More About WERNER HYACHINTHS SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: September 04, 1936, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
More About CATHERINE ELIZABETH:
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Children of WERNER SCHMITTBERGER and CATHERINE ELIZABETH are:
6. i. WERNER WILLIAM3 SCHMITTBERGER, b. October 02, 1914, Valley Stream, New York.; d. December 1981, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
7. ii. RAYMOND HYACINTHS SCHMITTBERGER, b. December 12, 1915, Valley Stream, New York.; d. May 1967, Hillside, New Jersey.
4. OSWALD ORTHENDOFER2 SCHMITTBERGER (MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born 1886 in Manhattan, New York., and died June 13, 1949 in Whitestone, New York. He married FLORANCE A. HENNELLY. She was born December 21, 1893 in Southern Ireland., and died February 1978 in New Jersey.
More About OSWALD ORTHENDOFER SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: June 15, 1949, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Military service: Bet. 1916 - 1918, Quartermaster, United States Navy Reserve Force during World War 1 station in Alaska.
Occupation: Private Detective & Salesman.
More About FLORANCE A. HENNELLY:
Burial: February 1978, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Marriage Notes for OSWALD SCHMITTBERGER and FLORANCE HENNELLY:
New York Times May 22, 1918
Hennelly - Schmittberger
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Hennelly of 241 East Sixty-first Street have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss. Florence A. Hennelly, to Quartermaster Oswald O. Schmittberger, U. S. N. R. F. , the youngest son of the late Chief Inspector Max F. Schmittberger and Mrs. Schmittberger of 200 East Sixty-eighth. No date has been set for the wedding.
Child of OSWALD SCHMITTBERGER and FLORANCE HENNELLY is:
8. i. ROBERT ANDREW3 SCHMITTBERGER, b. May 05, 1924, Manhattan, New York; d. May 21, 1993, Lakeworth, Florida.
Generation No. 3
5. SALLY GAYLE3 SCHMITTBERGER (GEORGE CHARLES2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born September 11, 1917 in Manhattan, New York., and died December 21, 1999 in Lake Havasau, Arizona. She married MARTIN HURD LEMMON December 04, 1954 in Whitestone, New York, son of CHARLES LEMMON and MAGGIE HURD. He was born February 28, 1909 in Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, and died May 04, 1961 in Bronx, New York.
Notes for SALLY GAYLE SCHMITTBERGER:
Changed last name from "Schmittberger to "Smith" in 1942, due to anti-German sentiment in the United States. - Marcia H. Lemmon -
More About SALLY GAYLE SCHMITTBERGER:
Burial: December 23, 1999, Lake Havasau Memorial Gardens, Lake Havasau City, Arizona.
Degree: B.A. Education.
Education: 1936 - 1938, attended Hunter's College in Manhattan, New York.
Graduation: The commencement and graduation ceremony were held in Carnegie Hall, June 18, 1938.
More About MARTIN HURD LEMMON:
Burial: May 06, 1961, Ohio.
More About MARTIN LEMMON and SALLY SCHMITTBERGER:
Marriage: December 04, 1954, Whitestone, New York
Child of SALLY SCHMITTBERGER and MARTIN LEMMON is:
i. MARCIA HILLARY4 LEMMON, b. July 10, 1958, Bronx, New York.; d. December 02, 2006, Manhattan, New York.
Notes for MARCIA HILLARY LEMMON:
Worked for Volunteers of America NYC Homeless Division on Ward's Island.
Obituary December 6 - 12, 2006
Marcia Lemmon, C.B. 3 member, scourge of bar owners
By Lincoln Anderson
Marcia Lemmon, the bane of Downtown bar owners and a fighter for quality of life on the Lower East Side, died on Saturday. She was 48.
Clayton Patterson, a friend and ally in some of Lemmon's battles, said he was called to her building on Ludlow St. on Saturday morning and witnessed Lemmon - who "looked terrible," he said - being taken away in a Cabrini ambulance about 9 A.M. About an hour later, Patterson and Danny Stein went to Beth Israel Hospital, where Lemmon had been taken, and were told by a doctor that she was dead. An autopsy was inconclusive and further tests will be done to determine the cause of death, according to a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Lemmon had suffered from severe obesity for years.
Lemmon was president of the Ludlow St. Block Association and a member of Community Board 3 - covering the East Village and Lower East Side - for several years. She was particularly active on C.B. 3 in the late 1990s as a vocal member of the board's State Liquor Authority Committee, which makes advisory recommendations on whether to approve or disapprove liquor licenses for bars, clubs and restaurants.
In letters to the editor to The Villager, Lemmon would blast the area's booming bar scene as the "Lower East Side Alcohol Theme Park."
Bar owners definitely did not want to get on her bad side. Working on her own, she succeeded in shutting down the popular Baby Jupiter, at Orchard and Stanton Sts., by flagging such violations as not having proper permits posted inside the bar.
However, in 2001, some local bar owners - including Gary Auslander, Baby Jupiter's owner - began actively lobbying then-Borough President C. Virginia Fields not to reappoint her to the community board. Lemmon dropped off of the board around that time. But she said it was not because of her critics merely that she wanted to take a step back. And her health was worsening.
Lemmon had also been a member of the Seventh Precinct Community Council, a civilian group that holds monthly meetings at which the precinct's commanding officer gives reports on crime and crime statistics. However, in 1999, Lemmon, Patterson and Patterson's wife, Elsa Rensaa, were banned from the council by its president, Don West, after Patterson persistently demanded more detailed information on local crime and Lemmon insisted on seeing the council's financial books.
Lemmon also championed local businesses, like Rosario's Pizza, when it was forced by high rent out of its E. Houston St. space, only to be replaced by a Famous Ray's pizzeria. Eventually, Rosario's found a new home at Orchard and Stanton Sts.
"She was a good person," said Sal Bartolomeo, Rosario's owner. "She tried to make a neighborhood that there will not be abuse or noise from anybody. And when you do that there are people no like you…. She was a fighter. She did it more than anybody else. I remember she would take a camera, take a picture of [some violation at] a restaurant. Everybody knew her."
Bartolomeo said he was touched by how Lemmon and Patterson came out to Queens for the funeral of his father, Philip, a.k.a. "Pops," several years ago.
"That was really beautiful," he said. "I will never forget."
Lemmon grew up in Queens. Rensaa said that when she and Patterson first met Lemmon on the Lower East Side she was a normal weight, but that after Lemmon's mother died in 1991 or '92, she began eating and putting on weight. It got to the point where a couple of years ago, Lemmon had ballooned all the way to 600 pounds, Rensaa said. One time, Rensaa recalled, firefighters came to get Lemmon out of her apartment and used a hoist, then put her in the elevator and had to walk down the stairs because there was no room in the elevator.
"We tried to get Richard Simmons to do something - like he helped Tiny on Third St.," Rensaa said, referring to another local resident who got so big he became trapped in his apartment. "Richard Simmons wasn't interested in doing it anymore."
Rensaa said that Lemmon recently had actually lost a lot of weight - about 300 pounds, in fact. And Bartolomeo said Lemmon had called him only about a month ago to tell him she was feeling better.
After Lemmon's health worsened, Assembly member Sheldon Silver - whom she had frequently skewered in letters to the editor in The Villager - helped her obtain a hospital bed for her apartment.
In a statement, Silver said, "Over the course of many years, I had the fortune of working with Marcia Lemmon, a passionate advocate who fought hard for the issues that she believed in. Ms. Lemmon was a pioneer in the fight against the over saturation of bars in the Lower East Side.
"While Ms. Lemmon and I did not always agree on the approach to overcoming certain challenges, we shared the common goal of protecting the quality of life for local residents. Ms. Lemmon was a valued member of our community whose enthusiasm and drive will be missed."
Back in 2000, Lemmon had criticized the appointment of David McWater, an East Village bar owner, to C.B. 3. Within a few years, McWater had risen to become the board's chairperson.
"I had no hard feelings," McWater said. "I feel like she had a tough life…. I think you guys called her after I was chairperson and she said I was doing relatively well," he told The Villager. "I don't think I ever talked to her again. She just wasn't around."
McWater said that during their brief time on the board together, Lemmon once told him that her grandfather or great-grandfather had been a top police chief in the New York Police Department.
Her politics were conservative on some issues. In one of her final letters to a Community Media publication, she wrote to Downtown Express, The Villager's sister paper, praising the Minutemen - the anti-illegal immigration group - as patriots and criticizing their opponents, after the opponents had rallied at Ground Zero.
Patterson is trying to do a memorial for Lemmon. He is talking to a priest and hopes to organize something for her, possibly at the Angel Orensanz Foundation.
McWater said Lemmon's father died in 1998. It's not known if she has any survivors.
Authority: Mr. Lincoln Anderson, The "Villager Newspaper", © Dec. 6 -12, 2006.
Volume 76, Number 28 December 6 - 12, 2006
Editorial December 2006
Death of an activist
The death of Marcia Lemmon, Ludlow St. Block Association president and former Community Board 3 member, was truly saddening. She was only 48 and could have lived a full and longer life, but her health issues ultimately prevented it.
Lemmon was one of the first to raise the cry of bar over saturation on the Lower East Side. For doing that and being a hardheaded fighter, she wasn't universally adored. Whatever one thought of her, however, one had to acknowledge Lemmon wanted to improve her neighborhood. This could be seen from her concern for local businesses to her involvement on C.B. 3.
Lemmon was an outspoken critic of the State Liquor Authority, and it's no stretch of the imagination to believe that her efforts helped, in part, to spur the S.L.A. reform we're seeing today. She wasn't perfect. But she was a committed community activist. And she knew how to make a difference - and she did. - The Villager -
THE VILLAGER
Volume 76, Number 51 May 16 -22, 2007
Scourge of bars was top cop's great-granddaughter
By Lincoln Anderson
Marcia Lemmon always knew that a great-grandfather of hers had been top New York Police Department brass. So perhaps it wasn't so surprising that she made it her mission to clean up the Lower East Side's rowdy bar scene. It must have been in the genes.
A former Community Board 3 member and Ludlow St. Block Association president, Lemmon died last Dec. 2 at age 48. In the late 1990s, she became a quality-of-life crusader in her neighborhood, which she lamented had become "The Lower East Side Alcohol Theme Park."
A Long Island amateur genealogist whose family lived with a great aunt of Lemmon's has provided new details on Lemmon's relationship to Maximilian Frances Schmittberger, the legendary chief inspector who exposed corruption in the N.Y.P.D.
Robert Garcia, 54, a legal assistant who lives in Patchogue, said Inspector Schmittberger's youngest daughter, Anna - Lemmon's great aunt - was friends with Garcia's mother, whose grandfather ran a wicker store on the Upper East Side. Anna eventually moved in with his family on Long Island, living with them her last 50 years.
Garcia recently contacted the newspaper after finding Lemmon's obituary in The Villager online.
After Inspector Schmittberger died in 1917, Anna's four surviving brothers inherited the property, while Anna, as was common for women in those days, got the jewelry and family photos - including photos of Inspector Schmittberger and his full-department-honors funeral with a Fifth Ave. procession.
The Police Department photos - some stamped "For Your Use Only" - stayed tucked away for many years in a suitcase. Anna died in 1981 at age 93.
In 2002, Garcia created a Schmittberger family Web site, posting the old photos on it. Schmittberger descendants started contacting him, giving him bits of the family history. He searched old New York Times articles, filling in the story of the chief inspector and his progeny.
What Garcia discovered was that Schmittberger was one of the most renowned New York City public figures of his day, rising to become the department's then-highest-ranking officer.
When Schmittberger was a police captain based on Mulberry St., Theodore Roosevelt was the city's police commissioner. The two men and their families were friends.
While still a captain, Schmittberger made headlines by revealing all in the 1894 Lexow Committee investigation on police graft. According to his Times obituary, he confessed how he himself had taken monthly payoffs of up to $300 "as head of the Steamboat Squad." Schmittberger married Sarah Goldin, an Irish woman, and together they had seven children.
One child, Max, made headlines at age 15 when a bullet lodged in his brain after he was shot by a friend in a bizarre incident at a church fair shooting gallery. He survived, but never fully recovered his faculties.
The inspector famously didn't get along with another son, Franklin, whom he left $1 in his will and after whom he named his horse. The inspector treated the horse well, though, Garcia said.
A year after Garcia launched the family Web site, Lemmon e-mailed him.
Garcia had posted a photo that he identified as "Max," thinking it was the chief inspector.
"She said she had it in her collection, but she didn't know who it was," Garcia said. "She said all she knew was that she was descended from a top-echelon police officer. The family had lost touch with its history."
A great-grandson of Oswald Schmittberger, one of the chief inspector's sons, subsequently contacted Garcia to tell him the photo, in fact, was not of the chief inspector but Oswald.
The last contact Garcia had with Lemmon was in 2004, when she e-mailed to say she would send him some documents, which she never did.
Garcia said Lemmon knew that the family had changed its name. Lemmon's mother, Sally, who died in 1999, changed her name from Schmittberger to Smith in 1942 due to anti-German sentiment during World War 2. Lemmon's father died in 1961. Lemmon left no immediate survivors.
Garcia, however, said that Lemmon might not have known that the Schmittbergers have an elaborate family plot with a huge obelisk and brass bells on it in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
Lemmon was buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Queens.
Clayton Patterson, a Lower East Side documentarian and gallery owner who was a friend of Lemmon, said he is working with a friend to get the quality-of-life activist her own monument through Silver Monument Works on Stanton St.
Authority: Mr. Lincoln Anderson: "The Villager Newspaper" © May 2007. Mr. Robert Garcia.
More About MARCIA HILLARY LEMMON:
Burial: December 03, 2006, Lutheran All Faith Cemetery, Queens, New York.
Occupation: Social Worker, Abolitionist, and Community Leader. She was a member of Community Board 3, when C. Virginia Fields was Borough President.
6. WERNER WILLIAM3 SCHMITTBERGER (WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born October 02, 1914 in Valley Stream, New York., and died December 1981 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He married PATRICIA GARDNER (?) She was born April 24, 1924 in London, England and died December 3, 2008.
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Burial: December 1981, Florida.
Military service: United States Army World War 2 European Theater. Rank: Tech.-5
Occupation: New York City Transit.
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Military service: Bet. 1941 - 1946, Royal British Woman's Land Army Corp. London, England, World War 2. Served with Lt. Major Elizabeth Windsor, (Queen Elizabeth II).
Burial: December 12, 2008, Calverton National Cemetery, Flanders, Long Island, New York.
Children of WERNER SCHMITTBERGER and PATRICIA G. are:
9. i. BRIAN4 SCHMITTBERGER, b. August 1, 1946 Brooklyn, New York.
10. ii. MARIE SCHMITTBERGER, b. 1948 Brooklyn, New York.
7. RAYMOND HYACINTHS3 SCHMITTBERGER (WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born December 12, 1915 in Valley Stream, New York., and died May 1967 in Hillside, New Jersey. He married PHYLLIS DAVIS. She was born April 04, 1917 in Manhattan, New York., and died February 01, 1990 in Hillside, New Jersey.
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Burial: May 1967, Maryrest Catholic Cemetery, Mahwah, New Jersey.
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Burial: February 03, 1990, Maryrest Catholic Cemetery, Mahwah, New Jersey.
Child of RAYMOND SCHMITTBERGER and PHYLLIS Davis is:
i. ROBERT4 SCHMITTBERGER.
8. ROBERT ANDREW3 SCHMITTBERGER (OSWALD ORTHENDOFER2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born May 05, 1924 in Manhattan, New York, and died May 21, 1993 in Lakeworth, Florida. He married JANET LENORE SHAFER August 21, 1948 in Shafer Home in Brooklyn, New York. She was born 1924 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Graduation: Columbia University.
Military service: 1941 - 1946, United States Army Demolition Specialist, European & Pacific Theaters World War 2.
Occupation: Chemical Engineer.
Authority: Mr. R. Wayne Schmittberger.
Marriage Notes for ROBERT SCHMITTBERGER and JANET SHAFER:
Daughter of Packer President is Wed to R. A. Schmittberger
New York Times August 22, 1948
Miss. Lee Shafer, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul D. Shafer of Brooklyn and Bloomsbury, N.J., was married to Robert Andrew Schmittberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Schmittberger of Brooklyn, yesterday at the Safer home in Brooklyn. The ceremony was preformed by the Rev. Dr. Ralph Conover Lanker, of the First Presbyterian Church in Cortland, N. Y., and Christ Church on Quaker Hill, Pawling, N. Y.
The bride was given in marriage by her father, who is president of Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn. Miss. Constance Thayer was her only attendant, and Norman Hammel was the best man.
More About ROBERT SCHMITTBERGER and JANET SHAFER:
Marriage: August 21, 1948, Shafer Home in Brooklyn, New York.
Children of ROBERT SCHMITTBERGER and JANET SHAFER are:
11. i. ROBERT WAYNE4 SCHMITTBERGER, b. October 09, 1949, Brooklyn, New York.
ii. LINDA JEAN SCHMITTBERGER, b. January 05, 1953, Brooklyn, New York.; m. ARTHUR PELLICHERO.
Arthur J. Pellichero
November 28, 2013
On Thursday, November 28, 2013, after a courageous battle with cancer, Arthur J. Pellichero, of Lebanon, PA, went home to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He was born in Hackensack, NJ on March 15, 1940, son of the late Bert J. and Ethel Pellichero. His beloved wife, of 29 years, Linda Pellichero of Lebanon, PA, survives him.He was a veteran of the NJ National Guard, and a life member of the Little Rocky Hill Vol. Fire Company in Franklin, NJ. Art was also a licensed minister for IMF in Minnesota. Art was a graduate of Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. He worked for 32 years in the field of finance, insurance, payrolls and taxes for Johnson & Johnson, NJ, and Interpool Limited in Princeton, NJ. He returned to school in 1988, and received a degree in Bible and Church Administration from the Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne, PA. In 1990, he began a career change working for churches, focusing on church administration, finances and facility management. Art worked as a chaplain/counselor at Americas Keswick in Whiting, NJ from 1994-1996. He returned to church work and retired from the Westerly Road Church in Princeton, NJ in 2005. Art had a great love for the elderly, and in 2005, began a career as a chaplain for Compassionate Care Hospice in NJ and PA. In July 2008, he became a chaplain for The ECC Towne Center in Myerstown, PA. Art was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, PA.
In addition to his wife, Linda, Art is survived by his son and daughter-in-laws: John and friend Marie from Somerset, NJ, William and Jill of Evansville, ID, Ted of Hillsboro, NJ, Karen of Hillsboro, NJ, and Richard and Laura of Cream Ridge, NJ; a sister, Eleanor and her husband, Arnold, of Princeton, NJ; a sister-in-law, Debbie Matechek of Long Valley, NJ; and a brother-in-law, Wayne Schmittberger of New Holland, PA; 8 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren; and 7 nieces and nephews.
A Memorial Service will be held at 12 PM on Friday, December 13, 2013 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2151 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601 to commemorate his passing. Family and friends will be received from 11:15 AM- 12 PM at the church. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Art’s memory to Compassionate Care Hospice, 4 Park Road, Suite 205A, Wyomissing, PA 19610
Child of: ARTHUR PELLICHERO and LINDA SCHMITTBERGER is:
i. JOHN B. PELLICHERO.
12. iii. DEBBIE LEE SCHMITTBERGER, b. October 04, 1957, Hunterdon, County, New Jersey.
Generation No. 4
9. BRIAN4 SCHMITTBERGER (WERNER WILLIAM3, WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born August 1, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He married CAROL "SMITH" she was born July 4, 1947.
More About Brian Schmittberger:
Education: East Islip High school class of 1965.
Occupation: Real Estate Broker.
Child of BRIAN SCHMITTBERGER and CAROL "SMITH" is:
i. JASON5 "SMITTY" ADAM SCHMITTBERGER, b. December 3, 1981 in Bayshore, New York m. MICHELLE GRAFF on August 8, 2008.
More About JASON SCHMITTBERGER:
Education: Attended Brentwood High School class of 1999. Suffolk County Community College 2001 - 2002. Queens College.
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Child of JASON SCHMITTBERGER and MICHELLE GRAFF is:
i.LOGAN JOSEPH SCHMITTBERGER, b. February 4, 2011.Good Samaritan Hospital, West Islip, New York.
ii. GRACE PATRICIA SCHMITTBERGER, b. May 11, 2014 Good Samaritan Hospital, West Islip, New York.
10. MARIE4 R. SCHMITTBERGER (WERNER WILLIAM3, WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born 1948 in Brooklyn, New York. She married JOSEPH VICINANZA b. May 6, 1943, son of LOUIS VICINANZA and SUSAN. Children of MARIE SCHMITTBERGER and JOSEPH VICINANZA are:
13. i. TIMOTHY5 VICINANZA b, October 7, 1968.
14. ii. JENNIFER VICINANZA.
11. ROBERT WAYNE4 SCHMITTBERGER (ROBERT ANDREW3, OSWALD ORTHENDOFER2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born October 09, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. He married JEAN MARIE STROTHER. She was born in Princeton, New Jersey.
Notes for ROBERT WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER:
Author of four books on board game rules & strategy.
More About ROBERT WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER:
Degree: in Law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1976.
Education: Bet. 1951 - 1975, Bridgewater West High School, Somerset, N.J., Yale University (Class of 1971) and New York University School of Law.
Graduation: May of 1975.
Occupation: Editor for Games Magazine; Inc.
Note: Wayne competes in International Board Game tournaments around the World and has won many prestigious awards & Trophies. He is a good and honorable man.[r.g].
Children of ROBERT SCHMITTBERGER and JEAN STROTHER are:
i. TERESA KIM5 SCHMITTBERGER, b. October 19, 1986, Princeton, New Jersey. Engaged to: WALTON HARROLD, July 25, 2014.
Child of: TERESA SCHMITTBERGER and WALTON HARROLD is:
i. NOAH EUGENE HARROLD, b, October 5, 2014.
Notes for TERESA KIM SCHMITTBERGER:
" Graduated from the University of Pittsburgh summa cum laude in
December 2007 with bachelor's degrees in psychology and political
science, plus a certificate in Russian studies. She is now at Duke University School of Law, graduating May 2011 ".
Authority: Mr. (Robert) Wayne Schmittberger.
More About TERESA KIM SCHMITTBERGER:
Education: University of Pittsburgh, Duke University.
Graduation: April 2008.
ii. BONNIE LEE SCHMITTBERGER, b. July 04, 1988, Princeton, New Jersey.
Note:" Graduated from Bryn Mawr College magna cum laude in May 2010 with a bachelor's degree in physics and a minor in mathematics. She is now a graduate student in physics at Duke University: PhD expected to take about six years ".
Authority: Mr. (Robert) Wayne Schmittberger.
More About BONNIE LEE SCHMITTBERGER:
Education: Bryn Mawr College, Duke University.
Graduation: May 2010.
12. DEBBIE LEE4 SCHMITTBERGER (ROBERT ANDREW3, OSWALD ORTHENDOFER2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) was born October 04, 1957 in Hunterdon, County, New Jersey. She married GREGORY MATECHAK.
Children of DEBBIE SCHMITTBERGER and GREGORY MATECHAK are:
i. GREGORY5 MATECHAK.
ii. ALEX MATECHAK.
iii. LEE MATECHAK.
Generation No. 5
13. TIMOTHY5 VICINANZA b, October 7, 1968 (MARIE4 SCHMITTBERGER, WERNER WILLIAM3, WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) He married LISA COSTANZA December 2001.
More about: TIMOTHY VICINANZA:
Education: John the Baptist Diocesan Highschool, Suffolk County Police Academy.
Occupation: Police Officer with the Suffolk County, New York Highway Department.
Children of TIMOTHY VICINANZA and LISA COSTANZA are:
i. NICKLAUS MAXIMILLIAN6 VICINANZA, b. November 23, 2001, Bayshore, New York.
ii. JULIA CHARLOTTE VICINANZA, b. November 23, 2001, Bayshore, New York.
14. JENNEFER5 VICINANZA (MARIE4 SCHMITTBERGER, WERNER WILLIAM3, WERNER HYACHINTHS2, MAXIMILIAN FRANCES1) She married THOMAS CALDWELL on March 16, 2008.
More About JENNIFER VICINANZA and THOMAS CALDWELL:
Marriage: March 16, 2008.
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