Fannie (Winklein) Friedenheit (1840 - 1921)

Born 1840 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Wife of Gerson Friedenheit — married 16 Feb 1859 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Aug 1921 at about age 81 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Fannie (Winklein) Friedenheit has Jewish Roots.

Fannie (Winklein) Friedenheit has German Roots.

Fannie Winklein was a daughter of Julius Winklein and his wife Babette (maiden name Bloch), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 13 September 1840.^[1] According to Annie Jacobs, one of her family's historians, "Fannie kept the Hebrew date of Rosh Hoshannah as her birthday because she was born on that holiday."^[2] This indicates that she was born in the month of September on the Gregorian calendar, and observed the Hebrew calendar date of 1 Tishrei as her birthday.

The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, some time after 1842, when her sister Sarah was born in Philadelphia, and about 1846, when her brother Abraham was born in Ohio.

Family historian Ann Sunstein wrote that Fanny was "was born in Pittsburgh ^[3] but moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met and married at the age of 18 a young immigrant from Germany named Gerson Friedenheit. Theirs was the second marriage in the Reformed Jewish religion in the USA in the temple founded by Rabbi Wise, who performed the ceremony." This refers to Rabbi Isaac Mayer (Weis) Wise (1819-1900), who is regarded as the founder of Reformed Judaism in America. He took up the position of rabbi for Congregation B'nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati in 1854,^[4] so it is very unlikely that the marriage of Fannie and Gerson in 1859 was only the second one he performed there. Regardless, being married by such an influential rabbi certainly seems like an auspicious start to the marriage. Gerson Friedenheit and Fannie Winklein obtained their marriage license in Hamilton County, Ohio, on 15 February 1859. The public record does not include the customary "return of marriage" record confirming when the marriage was performed;^[5] this is also missing from a number of other Hamilton County marriage license records from the same time period.

Ann Sunstein continued: "The young couple went West in a covered wagon to St. Joseph, Missouri where they had four children. [In Missouri], Gerson sold textiles to the Union Army."

Children Isaac, Harriet, Sophie, and Rachel were born in St. Joseph. Records from St. Joseph show that Gerson was engaged in selling clothing there. In 1863 the U.S. Internal Revenue Service assessed tax on G. Freidenheit of St. Joseph, Missouri, for his income and for being a wholesale dealer.^[6] An 1866 tax record shows another tax assessment on G. Friedenheit of St. Joseph, a 2nd cl. pedler (apparently a secondhand clothing peddler).^[7] As late as 1867 (after the family had moved to New York), Gerson was listed as a clothing seller in a city directory for St. Joseph.^[8]

In 1860, Gerson, Fanny, their newborn son Isaac, and Gerson's fifty-seven-year-old mother Fanny were residing in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Gerson owned a clothing store and had real estate valued at $700 and personal property valued at $2,000.^[9]

By 1866 the family had moved to Manhattan, New York, where Gerson engaged in the retail clothing business. Trow's New York City directory for 1866-7, published in 1866, listed Gerson Friedenheit, clothing, living at 156 W. 50th St.^[10] Gerson was not listed in the 1865 New York City directory. Daughter Rachel, born in 1865, is listed in the 1870 census with a birthplace of New York and in the 1880 census with a birthplace of Missouri.

In December 1866, Fannie gave birth to their son Julius in Manhattan, New York County, New York.^[11] He lived just six weeks before passing away on 30 January 1867 in Manhattan.

The 1870 U.S. Census recorded Gerson in Manhattan as George Fridenburg, 36. He was a native of Bavaria and a U.S. citizen, working in the retail clothing business. His wife Fanny was recorded as 29 years old and born in Pennsylvania. Their children were recorded as Isaac, 10, Hattie, 8, and Sophie, 7, all born in Missouri; and Rachel, 5, and Simon, 2, both born in New York. Gerson seems to have fairly prosperous at this time. He reported $5000 in real estate and the household included a domestic servant, Lizzie Strunk, 20, born in Prussia.^[12]

Later Gerson Friedenheit went into the insurance business. The 1880 U.S. Census recorded Gerson Friedenheit, age 45, a fire & life insurance broker, and his wife Fannie Friedenheit, age 39, on 55th Street in Manhattan, New York, with their 10 children and Gerson's 82-year-old mother, Fanny Friedenheit. According to the census sheet, the first four children, Isaac, 20, Hattie, 18, Sophie, 17, and Rachel, 15, were born in Missouri, and children Simon 12, Leon, 10, Sarah, 8, Hannah, 6, Emanuel, 4, and Esther, 1, were born in New York. ^[13]

Trow's New York City Directory published in 1889, lists Gerson Friedenheit, insurance, living at 352 E. 116th, with his business at 109 Grand. Isaac Friedenheit, ribbons, is listed at the same home address, with his business at 111 Grand.^[14]

The 1900 U.S. Census (enumerated in June 1900) recorded Gerson Friedenheit (transcribed on websites as Gersino Friedenhut) and family at 178 West 64th St. in Manhattan, New York City. As listed, Gerson Friedenheit was 65, born in December 1834 in Germany of German-born parents, with occupation of "agent." He had immigrated in 1850 and was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Fannie Friedenheit, his wife, was 54, born in September 1845^[15] in Ohio to German-born parents. They had been married 39 years and Fannie had had 14 children, of whom 10 were living. Others in the household were daughter Hannah Friedenheit, 23, born May 1877: son Simon Friedenheit, 28 (crossed out by a census worker who changed it to 27), born in June 1872; daughter Estelle Friedenheit, 20, born January 1880; daughter Erma Friedenheit, 19, born April 1881; daughter Clara Friedenheit, 17, born February 1883; son Arthur Friedenheit, 12, born April 1888; their widowed son-in-law Louis Abrahams, 40, born January 1860; his children Rita Abrahams, 6 (born December 1893), and Julian, 3 (born January 1897); and three women identified as servants.^[16]

Further from Ann Sunstein:

"Later, they moved to a brownstone in New York City in the Nineties. There is a portrait of them in the Museum of the City of New York."

In April 1910, Gerson, Fannie, and five of their children, Simon, Arthur, Esther, Clara, and Hattie, were residing in the Borough of Manhattan, at a house they rented at 23 West 96th Street (presumably this is the brownstone on the West Side in the Nineties that is recalled by their descendants). Seventy-six-year-old Gerson was working as an insurance broker. His wife Fannie had given birth to fourteen children during their fifty-one years of marriage, but only ten were still living as of 1910. Their widowed daughter Hattie Hirsch and her three adult children, Lawrence, Irwin, and Reina, were residing with them.^[17]

In 1915 the New York State Census recorded 74-year-old Fannie "Freidenheit" living in the West 96th Street in New York City, in the household of her 81-year-old husband, "Geison Freidenheit," together with their sons, Simon, 41, and Arthur, 28.^[18]

In February 1919, Fannie and Gerson celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a party for 60 guests at their home at 23 West 96th Street in Manhattan.^[19]

Fannie Friedenheit died at age 80 in the New York City borough of Manhattan on 17 August 1921. The death record names her parents as Abraham Winklein and Babette Bloch, both born in Bavaria. Burial was in Beth-El Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W12-8W5 : 10 February 2018), Fannie Friedenheit, 17 Aug 1921; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 2,027,635.
2. ↑ Sunstein, Ann. "A Capsule Description of Parents, Grandparents, & Great-Grandparents of Ann & Ted Kheel," written July 1984, at the request of Marti Kheel.
3. ↑ This is an error. Possibly the family got Pittsburgh and Philadelphia confused.
4. ↑ May, Max Benjamin. Isaac Mayer Wise: The Founder of American Judaism; a Biography. New York & London: G. P. Putnam, 1916.
5. ↑ Image of marriage license accessed at "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-BJNB-2?cc=1614804&wc=Q6SP-F5Y%3A121350801%2C122906901 : 15 July 2014), Hamilton > Marriage records 1859 vol 20 > image 102 of 231; county courthouses, Ohio. Also at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61378/images/TH-1-17957-15260-25
6. ↑ The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Tax Assessment Lists for Collection Districts in the State of Missouri, 1862-1865; Series: M776; Roll: 16; Description: District 3; Annual and Supplementary Lists; May-Dec 1863; Record Group: 58, Records of the Internal Revenue Service, 1791 - 2006. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1264/images/rhusa1862_101924-00109
7. ↑ The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Tax Assessment Lists for Collection Districts in the State of Missouri, 1862-1865; Series: M776; Roll: 22; Record Group: 58, Records of the Internal Revenue Service, 1791 - 2006. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1264/images/rhusa1862_101930-00314
8. ↑ Frank Swick's Resident and Business Directory of Saint Joseph, 1867-68. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/41199_1220706242_4154-00194 . Clothing -- Wholesale and Retail: Friedenheit G, 44 Edmond. Also listed on page 69 at 44 and 46 Edmond.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCB-TX3 : 11 November 2020), Fany Fredinlule in entry for Geo Fredinlule, 1860.
10. ↑ Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "New York City directory". The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1866. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f02a69a0-5363-0134-aba2-00505686a51c, page 357.
11. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HQY1-TD3Z : 21 January 2020), Gerson Fridenheil in entry for Julius Fridenheil.
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M86Q-4G5 : 3 January 2021), George Fridenburg, 1870.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZXM-LH7 : 7 September 2017), Gerson Friedenheit, New York, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 561, sheet 454C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,893.
14. ↑ Trow's New York City Directory, Vol. CIII, for the Year Ending May 1, 1890, page 670. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
15. ↑ This date is impossibly early; she was declared to be over 18 when she married in 1859.
16. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6X9W-ZHB?cc=1325221&wc=9BWH-SPL%3A1030551901%2C1035804001%2C1036119201 : 5 August 2014), New York > New York County > ED 660 Borough of Manhattan, Election District 15 New York City Ward 24 > image 35 of 39; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
17. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M57Q-GL6 : accessed 7 January 2021), Gerson Friedenheet, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 593, sheet 11A, family 200, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1023; FHL microfilm 1,375,036.
18. ↑ New York State Census, 1915. Enumeration sheet for Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 08; Assembly District: 17; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 04. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2703/images/32848_B094071-00557
19. ↑ "Married Sixty Years." The New York Herald, February 18, 1919.

• "Married Sixty Years." The New York Herald, February 18, 1919.

• "Died - Friedenheit." The New York Times, August 18, 1921.

• US Federal Census; Year: 1880; Census Place: New York City, New York, New York; Roll: 893; Family History Film: 1254893; Page: 454C; Enumeration District: 561; Image: 0911.

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• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W12-8W5 : 10 February 2018), Fannie Friedenheit, 17 Aug 1921; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 2,027,635.