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ADOLPH SCHLEICHER
Originally published in 1900 |
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ADOLPH SCHLEICHER, one of the prominent citizens of West Hoboken,
Hudson County, N. J., and since 1896 a member of the Board of Education,
was born in the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 19, 1868. He is the
son of Victor Schleicher and Jacobine Miesel, daughter of Martin and Wilhelmina
Miesel, a grandson of Lawrence Schleicher and Carolina
Schleicher, and a great-grandson of John and Emma Schleicher. His paternal
ancestors were mineowners in Germany during the eighteenth century.
The first of the line in Germany bore the surname of De Trayer, and
was one of a band of French Huguenots who were driven from France
through the persecution of the Protestants in the reign of Henry IV, in the
sixteenth century. This ancestor settled in Stollenbey, near Stollberg, Germany,
and assumed the German name of Schleicher. The family of Mr.
Schleicher's mother is also of French origin. Victor Schleicher, father of
Adolph Schleicher. came to America. in 1855, enlisted in the Union Army
during the Civil War, and was taken prisoner by the Confederates at the
battle of Williamsburg, Va. Adolph Schleicher, Sr., namesake and uncle
of Mr. Schleicher, served with distinction in the German Army, as an officer
of the Royal Guards, and also carne to America. For seventeen years
he was connected with the police courts of New York City, and for eleven
years held the office of Recorder of Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J. Jacob
Miesel and Louis Miesel, uncles of Mr. Schleicher, served with distinction in
the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mr. Schleicher was educated in the public schools of Union Hill, N. J., at private schools, and at Cooper Union, New York City. At the age of seventeen he accepted a position with the Weber Piano Company in New York City, received rapid advancement, and remained with this house until it failed. Since that time he has been very successfully engaged in the real estate and insurance business in West Hoboken, N. J. Well known for his public spirit, the only office which he has ever accepted has been that of member of the Board of Education of West Hoboken, to which position he was elected in 1896 and re-elected in 1899. The military instinct, so characteristic of his family, was displayed in Air. Schleicher's enlistment, in 1888, in Company B, Second Regiment, National Guard of the State of New Jersey. He rose to the rank of senior Sergeant, and when the Second and Fourth Regiments were consolidated he still continued as an officer. He was honorably discharged in 1894. He married Miss Lena Biedermann, of New York City, He is a prominent member of the West Hoboken Business Men's Association, of the Columbia Club, of the Palisade Democratic Club, of Cosmopolitan Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hoboken Lodge, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, of Capitol Lodge, K. of H., and of Garfield Council, No 56, J. O. U. A. M.
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