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Subject: [NYNASSAU] Re: Obit/East Meadow, Nassau Co,NY
Date: 29 Jun 2002 05:01:08 -0600

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My great grandfather's name was Adolph Bomhard, and the following is information I have about him. Though the date of death I have does not quite match the one Sue Hollenbeck posted, we may be talking about the same person.

Adolph Bomhard

Born: Brooklyn, NY, December 1859
Died: Brooklyn, NY, 1949 (89 years old)
Wives: Margaret Bomhard (divorced)
Eugenie Bomhard (married in 1904)
Children:Adolph Bomhard (died at 3 months)
Alice Beatrice Bomhard (died at 3)
Miria Bomhard (died at 12)
Arthur E. Bomhard (1892-1957)
Adele Broas
Alice Soechtig (1905-2001)
Thecla Bomhard (1908-2001)
Stepchildren: Margaret Edgeton (father Emil Prinz)
Gladys Adriance (father Emil Prinz)
Occupation: Artist

Biographical notes:

Adolph Bomhard was an accomplished artist — he was a master painter of big scenes on the sides of moving vans, which is now a vanished art.
His paintings of seascapes and rural scenes were in great demand. What he most enjoyed painting were big American battle scenes. He did a tremendous painting of the Civil War sea battle between the Monitor and Merrimac.
Two of Adolph’s relatives were employed years back by the Czar. One painted on porcelain, and the other painted on silk — he designed many of the robes now in museums.
At age 8, Adolph showed talent by decorating his school notebooks with rosebuds and rural scenes. When he finished at the Fuerst Institute, a military school at College Point, Harrison Fisher’s grandfather, who lived next door to the Bomhards on Grand Street, took an interest in Adolph and sent the boy to study art for three years at the Fisher studio in Manhattan.
Adolph painted hundreds of scenes for dealers for seven years, then branched out into van painting. His best customer was a Brooklyn moving and storage company, for whom he worked for 50 years.
Adolph was also musical. Many bands of the 1920’s played his balads and waltzes at concerts; he was a composer. He sang second tenor with several German singing societies in Brooklyn and was president for many years of the Williamsburg Sängerbund.
Adolph was also active in Masonry and was a member of Schiller Lodge, founded by his father, and of Jamaica Lodge. At the lodge on Flag Day, 14 June 1939, he was honored by a special arrangement of his favorite composition “Hail Stars and Stripes”.
Address in 1890: 116 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

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