SEGGERMAN, Henry
KRUEGER, Frederick
From New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a Record of the Achievements of her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation (by William Richard Cutter, 1914). Transcribed by Amy Robbins-Tjaden.
Henry Seggerman was [Seggerman] born in Bremen, Germany, and lived and died there. He was not in active business. He married Johanna Hildebrand. They had two children, Louise, and Henry, mentioned below. (II) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Seggerman, was born in Bremen, Germany, and came to this country in 1850 when a young man. He located in New York City and became a prosperous and prominent merchant. He was a Democrat in politics and a German Lutheran in religion. He died in 1888.
He married, in New York City, Martha Strong Gleason, who was born on Staten Island, New York, daughter of Daniel and Helen (Vanderburgh) Gleason, granddaughter of James and Martha (Strong) Vanderburgh, descendant of Peter Brown, who came in the "Mayflower" (see Strong and Brown). Children: Anna, born 1856; Frederick Krueger, mentioned below; Louise Norton, 1863; Victor, August, 1865.
(Ill) Frederick Krueger, son of Henry (2) Seggerman, was born in Yonkers, New York, February 7, 1857. His early education was received at St. John's College, which he attended until he was twelve years old, when he went abroad and became a student at Keilhan high school, near Rudolsbadt, Germany, an institute founded by Froebel, of kindergarten fame, graduating after a five-year course in 1874. After his return to this country he started in his business career as clerk for the Decastro & Donner Sugar Refining Company. Afterward he was in the employ of the firm of Havemeyer & Elder, sugar refiners, and clerk for the firm of L. W. Minford & Company, of New York. He founded the firm of Seggerman Brothers in partnership with his brother. Afterward the business was incorporated under the name of Seggerman Brothers, Incorporated, and he is president of the company, which imports and deals in coffee and also handles California products. He is one of the leading merchants in his line of business in New York. He is also vice-president of the Wisconsin Condensed Milk Company, which has factories at Burlington, Wisconsin, Pecatonica and Grey's Lake, Illinois, and vice-president of the McCann-Frazier Company, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, the Knolhvood Country Club, the New York Athletic Club, the Baltusrol Golf Club, the New York Wool Club, the Mayflower Society of New York, the Society of Mayflower Descendants and Squadron A Club of New York. In politics he has been an independent Democrat, but he voted for Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft for president. He served four years in the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, and for three years in Squadron A, New York National Guard. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. His home is at 309 West Eighty-first street, and his offices at 91 Hudson street, New York.
He married, October 18, 1887, Annie Hawthorne Timpson, who was born in a house on Eighteenth street, New York, in 1866, daughter of Alfred H. and Ellen (Mather) Timpson, granddaughter of General Mather, of Windsor, Connecticut. Her father was cashier of the Continental National Bank of New York, and was for ten years a member of the famous Seventh Regiment. New York National Guard. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Seggerman: i. Frederick Timpson, born in New York City, 1890; graduated from Princeton University; member of Ivy Club and of Squadron A ; associated in business with his father. 2. Kenneth Mather, born in New York City, 1892; member of class of 1913. Princeton University; member of the Cottage Club.
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