George L. Scheibe [Parents]
Joyce A. Hughes [Parents]
They had the following children:
F i Kathryn M. Scheibe F ii Kelly Marie Scheibe
Richard Blottenberger Smith [Parents] was born on 9 Jul 1928 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. He died on 3 Nov 2003 in New York City, NY. Richard married Mary Wells Detwiler on 5 Jun 1954 in Herndon, VA. The marriage ended in divorce.
Other marriages:Hamilton, Patricia
Richard B. Smith grew up in Lancaster until winning a scholarship to Yale University out of McCaskey High School. He won the best freshman swimmer award at Yale at a time when Yale's teams ranked near the top nationally. A year after graduation from Yale, he entered law school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Mary Wells Detwiler, who was an undergraduate. They married in 1954. During his career, he worked as a lawyer in New York (1955-67), as a Commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (1967-71), and as a partner at the NY City law firm of Davis, Polk, and Wardwell (1971-90). He was active in the Republican Party and in civic affairs throughout his career, and headed Mayor Ed Koch's Taxi Commission during the 1980's to reform the taxi industry. He retired in 1990 but continued to work most days showing more energy than many men thirty years his junior. He was a member of the Wall Street Club, River Club, Riverdale Yacht Club, and Chevy Chase Club in Washington, DC.
As a boy he would make his way out to Tucquan Glen, in the vicinity of the Susquehanna River, a wonderful wooded area of ravine and hills and rhododendron bushes. He passed this love of the woods onto his children. He took his family on frequent trips to the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York and other relatively wild places. He loved tennis, swimming, canoeing, hiking, and camping. He was a voracious reader, and especially loved history, and deeply loved classical music, particularly Beethoven and Brahms, and the great Protestant organ and choir music. For decades he participated in the messiah sign-in at Lincoln Center in NYC. (From information provided by his son, Thompson R. Smith.)
Mary Wells Detwiler [Parents] was born on 14 Oct 1931 in Washington, DC and was christened in Episcopal Church, Herndon, VA. She died on 10 Mar 2011 in Douarnenez, France. Mary married Richard Blottenberger Smith on 5 Jun 1954 in Herndon, VA. The marriage ended in divorce.
Other marriages:Pern, John
Mary W. (Detwiler) Smith Pern worked during her career as a writer, editor, and development director for non-profit groups. She remarried John Pern, an Englishman from Hastings, in 1980 in Salelles du Bosque, France. John's specialty was rebuilding by hand old buildings and houses into new homes. After 1980 they moved back and forth across the ocean, remodeling homes in France, West Virginia, and Oregon. In the 1990s, Mary developed her gifts in painting, and has held large exhibitions and participated in competitions in Oregon and France. Her family genealogy, incidentally, indicates a large number of German ancestors who came by boat to Philadelphia in the early eighteenth century and settled in PA. (Biography provided by son, Thompson R. Smith.)
They had the following children:
F i Landis Marsha Smith F ii Leslie Doris Smith M iii Thompson Richard Smith F iv Eliza Wells Smith
Richard Blottenberger Smith [Parents] was born on 9 Jul 1928 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. He died on 3 Nov 2003 in New York City, NY. Richard married Patricia Hamilton in 1988.
Other marriages:Detwiler, Mary Wells
Richard B. Smith grew up in Lancaster until winning a scholarship to Yale University out of McCaskey High School. He won the best freshman swimmer award at Yale at a time when Yale's teams ranked near the top nationally. A year after graduation from Yale, he entered law school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Mary Wells Detwiler, who was an undergraduate. They married in 1954. During his career, he worked as a lawyer in New York (1955-67), as a Commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (1967-71), and as a partner at the NY City law firm of Davis, Polk, and Wardwell (1971-90). He was active in the Republican Party and in civic affairs throughout his career, and headed Mayor Ed Koch's Taxi Commission during the 1980's to reform the taxi industry. He retired in 1990 but continued to work most days showing more energy than many men thirty years his junior. He was a member of the Wall Street Club, River Club, Riverdale Yacht Club, and Chevy Chase Club in Washington, DC.
As a boy he would make his way out to Tucquan Glen, in the vicinity of the Susquehanna River, a wonderful wooded area of ravine and hills and rhododendron bushes. He passed this love of the woods onto his children. He took his family on frequent trips to the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York and other relatively wild places. He loved tennis, swimming, canoeing, hiking, and camping. He was a voracious reader, and especially loved history, and deeply loved classical music, particularly Beethoven and Brahms, and the great Protestant organ and choir music. For decades he participated in the messiah sign-in at Lincoln Center in NYC. (From information provided by his son, Thompson R. Smith.)
Mary Wells Detwiler [Parents] was born on 14 Oct 1931 in Washington, DC and was christened in Episcopal Church, Herndon, VA. She died on 10 Mar 2011 in Douarnenez, France. Mary married John Pern in 1980 in Salelles du Bosque, France.
Other marriages:Smith, Richard Blottenberger
Mary W. (Detwiler) Smith Pern worked during her career as a writer, editor, and development director for non-profit groups. She remarried John Pern, an Englishman from Hastings, in 1980 in Salelles du Bosque, France. John's specialty was rebuilding by hand old buildings and houses into new homes. After 1980 they moved back and forth across the ocean, remodeling homes in France, West Virginia, and Oregon. In the 1990s, Mary developed her gifts in painting, and has held large exhibitions and participated in competitions in Oregon and France. Her family genealogy, incidentally, indicates a large number of German ancestors who came by boat to Philadelphia in the early eighteenth century and settled in PA. (Biography provided by son, Thompson R. Smith.)
They had the following children:
F i Mary Wells Detwiler
Landis Marsha Smith [Parents]
They had the following children:
M i Elliot Bernstein F ii Isabel May Bernstein
Leslie Doris Smith [Parents]
They had the following children:
M i Colin McDaniel M ii Graham McDaniel
Thompson Richard Smith [Parents]
Karin Neel Stoddard [Parents]
Ole Grandberg was born in Sep 1856 in Norway. He married Kate Iva Blottenberger on 15 Dec 1895 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA. The marriage ended in divorce.
Kate Iva Blottenberger [Parents] was born on 26 Jun 1869 in Lancaster Co., PA. She died on 29 Apr 1932 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA and was buried on 2 May 1932 in Dillsburg Cemetery, Dillsburg, York Co., PA. Kate married Ole Grandberg on 15 Dec 1895 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA. The marriage ended in divorce.
In 1900 Kate (Blottenberger) Granburg, b. Jun 1869 in PA, age 30, was living in Blair Twp., Trempealeau Co., Wisconsin, with her husband, Ole Granburg, b. Sep 1856 in Norway, age 43, a grain buyer. Kate and Ole had been married for 4 years. Kate had no children. (1900 census, microfilm roll 1819, Page 20B, house #353, family #355)
In 1910 Kate's husband, Ole Granberg, b. in Norway, age 53, and divorced, a farmer, was living in Preston, Trempealeau Co., Wisconsin. Also listed in his household were Ole's mother, Helen Granberg b. in Norway, age 79, a widow, and his sister, Minnie Granberg b. in Wisconsin age 34. (1910 census, microfilm roll T624_1739, Page 1A, house #
Kate was confirmed on 23 March 1913 at the Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA.In 1913, 1916, and 1917 Kate (Blottenberger) Granburg was living at 439 Boyd St., Harrisburg, PA. (US City Directories)
In 1930 Kate I. (Blottenberger) Granberg, age 59, listed as a widow, was living at 439 Boyd St. in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, in the household of her unmarried brother, Amos G. Blottenberger age 58, a janitor. Also listed in the same household were two lodgers; Harvey A. Nye age 38, a conductor on a street railway, and Wilmer A. Hoke age 35, a painter-odd jobs. Everyone in the household was born in PA. (1930 census, microfilm roll 2026, Page 5B, house #118, family #131)
(Other sources:
1. PA Certificate of Death #38684: Mrs. Kate Grandberg, 438 Boyd St., Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, born 26 Jun 1869 in Lancaster Co., PA, died 29 April 1932 in Harrisburg, age 62, widow, father - John Blottenberger, mother - Harriet Smith, informant - brother Amos Blottenberger, 439 Boyd St.)
John Maxwell Blottenberger [Parents] was born on 22 Dec 1871 in Dillsburg, York Co., PA and was christened on 18 Feb 1894 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA. He died on 27 Sep 1949 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA and was buried on 30 Sep 1949 in Greenmount Cemetery, York, York Co., PA. John married Flora May Batterman on 6 Jun 1901 in Faith United Methodist Church, Waynesboro, Franklin Co., PA.
John Blottenberger was a deaf-mute. From 1881 to 1891 he lived in the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Philadelphia, PA. Later he lived with relatives in Marietta and worked in the weaving business.
John Blottenberger was married to Flora M. Batterman by Rev. J. R. Hutchinson. (York Co., PA, marriage license #13400 on Familysearch.com)
In 1910 John Blottenberger, age 38, a laborer at a steel works, was living at 429 Kelker Ave. in the 6th Ward in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, with his wife, Flora Blottenberger age 32, and three of their children:
- daughter Honoria Blottenberger age 7
- daughter Florodoria (Flora) Blottenberger age 5
- son John Blottenberger age 3
John and Flora had been married for 9 years. Flora was the mother of 3 children, who were all living in 1910.
Everyone in the household was born in PA. (1910 census, microfilm roll T624_1336, Page 3A, house #58, family #58)In 1920 John M. Blottenberger, age 47, a laborer at a steel works, was living at 2122 Greenwood St. in the 13th Ward in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, with his wife, Flora M. Blottenberger, age 41, and four of their children:
- daughter Honoria F. Blottenberger age 17, operator of a sewing machine in a textile mill
- daughter Flora D. Blottenberger age 15
- son John S. Blottenberger age 13
- son Charles H. Blottenberger age 9
Everyone in the household was born in PA. (1920 census, microfilm roll T625_1559, Pages 12A and 12B, house #227, family #260)In 1930 John M. Blottenberger, age 58, a laborer in a steel mill, was living at 280 Second St. in Highspire, Dauphin Co., PA, with his wife, Flora M. Blottenberger age 52, and one son:
- Charles H. Blottenberger age 19, a tailor in a coat factory
John had been married at the age of 29 and Flora at the age of 22. Also listed in their household was Flora's father, Solomon Batterman, age 80, a widower. Everyone in the household was born in PA. (1930 census, microfilm roll 2027, Page 14B, house #343, family #350)In 1940 John Blottenberger, age 68, a shearman at a steel plant, was living at 237 Lusk St. in Highspire, Dauphin Co., PA, with his wife, Flora Blottenberger age 62, and one son:
- Charles H. Blottenberger age 29, listed as married
Also listed in their household was John's unmarried brother, Amos Blottenberger, age 69, a laborer at a steel plant. Everyone in the household was born in PA. (1940 census, microfilm roll T627_3483, Page 8A, household #150)(Other sources:
1. Findagrave.com - Memorial# 88180399
2. PA Certificate of Death #77717: John Maxwell Blottenberger, 1209 Chestnut St., Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, born 22 Dec 1871 in Dillsburg, York Co., PA, died 27 Sep 1949 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA, age 77-9-5, retired from Bethlehem Steel Co., widower of Flora, father - John Blottenberger, mother - Harriet Smith, informant - John S. Blottenberger, 1209 Chestnut St., Harrisburg, PA
3. US Social Security Applications and Claims Index)(Note: John's death certificate shows he was born in Dillsburg, York Co., PA, but the US Social Security Applications and Claims Index shows he was born in Marietta, PA.)
Flora May Batterman [Parents] was born on 18 Feb 1878 in York, York Co., PA. She died on 16 Feb 1949 in Highspire, Dauphin Co., PA and was buried on 20 Feb 1949 in Greenmount Cemetery, York, York Co., PA. Flora married John Maxwell Blottenberger on 6 Jun 1901 in Faith United Methodist Church, Waynesboro, Franklin Co., PA.
Flora May Batterman was a deaf-mute. From 1887 to 1891 she lived in the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Philadelphia, PA.
(Sources:
1. Findagrave.com - Memorial# 88180407
2. PA Certificate of Death #12371: Flora May Blottenberger, 257 Second St., Highspire, Dauphin Co., PA, born 18 Feb 1878 in York, PA, died 16 Feb 1949, age 70-11-28, wife of John Blottenberger, father - Soloman Batterman, mother - LeCrone, informant - J. S. Blottenberger, 257 Sec. St., Highspire, PA)
They had the following children:
F i Honora F. Blottenberger F ii Floradora Blottenberger M iii John S. Blottenberger M iv Charles Henry Blottenberger