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From: Jim Turner <>
Subject: Re: [TXGALVES-L] Bleimeyer
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:43:14 -0800


Kari wrote:
>
> My great grandfather was Frank Rudolph Otto Bleimeyer. He was a taylor in
> Galveston for some of the prominent families there- John Sealy and others.
> I would like to find info. about where his shop might have been and don't
> know how to go about it. He was there during the 1900 Galveston flood and
> survived and later ran his shop from his home after he got older and his
> health poor. They lived at 4009 Avenue M 1/2.
> Does anyone also have old city directories from about 1893 to 1900 or so?
> Kari
>

Hi Kari,

According to the city directories, your g-grandfather worked in several locations.

He is first mentioned in the 1893-94 directory, listed as Bleimeier, Frank, tailor
working for Ike Meyer, Merchant Tailor, 421-423 22nd, and boarding with A.
Wasgien, 2114 Ave N.

1895-96. Listed as Frank Bleimyer, tailor with Ike Meyer, residence 1411 17th.

1896-97. Listed as Frank Bleimyer, tailor working for I. Stiefel & Co., 420
Tremont, residence 4009 Ave M 1/2. This residence address remained the same at
least thru 1914, the last directory I checked. I. Stiefel & Co, owned by Issac
Stiefel, described itself as "Merchant Tailors, Gent's Furnishers."

1898. No employer is shown, only listed as a residence address.

1899-1900. Listed as Frank Bleimyer, tailor with Lazarus & Ehrich, described as
proprietors Misfit clothing parlors, 417-419 Tremont.

1901-02. Frank Bleimyer, tailor with T.C. Korn, merchant tailor in Tremont Hotel,
519 Tremont. Directory now starts to show the number in the family(or number
living in household), 4.

1903-04. No change except now 5 in family. Ad on outside back cover of the
directory describes T.C. Korn as "Importer of Fine Woolens."

1905. Listed as Frank Bleimyer, merchant tailor, cleaning, scouring shop, 312
21st, now 6 in family. He placed an ad in the directory which states, "Frank
Bleimyer, Custom Tailor, Suits Made to Order, Cleaning, Pressing neatly done, 312
Twenty-first Street." In the business pages, he is shown under Tailors, with his
business address listed as 306 21st.

1906-07. Personal listing now shows him at 306 21st, and his ad also shows 306
21st. In the business pages, he is shown under Tailors, at 310 21st St.

1908-09. Now listed as Frank Bleimeyer, tailor, cleaning shop at 2213 Mechanic
(site now occupied by the NationsBank Bldg), 7 in family. Also in the directory
is a Frank Bleimeyer Jr., office boy for Fowler & McVitie, residence 4009 M 1/2.

1909-10. No change for Frank Bleimeyer, tailor. Also in the directory is a Frank
W. Bleimeyer, appc cabinetmaker for Adolph Stein, residence 4009 M 1/2.

1911-12. Frank Bleimeyer, tailor and cleaning, 2215 Mechanic, now 5 in family.
Frank W. Bleimeyer is listed as a driver for Albert Niedermann.

1913. Frank Bleimeyer, tailor and cleaning at 2215 Mechanic, 5 at home. An
addenda shows his shop address changed to 220 Tremont. Also listed is a Arthur
Bleimeyer, soda clk at Wilder, Michaelis & Hughes, residence at 4009 M 1/2.

1914. Listed as Frank R.O. Bleimeyer, Practical Tailor, Suits Made to Order,
repairing and altering a specialty, clothes cleaned and pressed, 220 Tremont.
Directory also shows Frank W., a machinist, and Otto Bleimeyer, both residing at
4009 M 1/2.

I hope this helps you.

Jim

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