William Frederick Mittendorf and Emma von Keith Zeuschber, immigrants
Ancestors, Descendants, and some Collateral Lines
Second Generation

GEORGE SAMUEL2 MITTENDORF (William Frederick1) was born at New York on 29 September 1878 a son of William Frederick Mittendorf and his first wife Emma von Keith Zeuschner. He died at Manhattan, New York County, New York, on 10 Nevember 1952. He married there on 25 November 1908 MARIE ELEANOR McGUIRE. She was born at Manhattan on 21 December 1893, and died there on 20 September 1962.[1]

George Mittendorf grew up in New York City, the second of three sons. When he was five years old his mother died; the following year he acquired a step-mother. George and his siblings were baptized at Saint Luke's Methodist Church, New York City, on 28 February 1880.[2]

The 1910 Census reported George Mittendorfe, 31, self-employed lawyer, his wife of one year, Marie, 26, and their son William, 2 months old, at 527 W. 110th St., Manhattan.[3]

When George S. Mittendorf signed up for the draft in 1918, he was a lawyer working at 22 Exchange Place, New York City, and resided at 130 East 95th Street, New York City. He was described as being of medium height, medium build, blue eyes and brown hair.[4]

The 1920 Census reported the family at 128 East 95th Street (probably 130 East 95th Street is intended) as follows:[5]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
36. Mittendorf, George S. head M W 41 M NY Germany NY lawyer
37. Mittendorf, Marie E. wife F W 36 M NY Ireland NY none
38. Mittendorf, Frederick W. son M W 10 S NY NY NY none
39. Mittendorf, Matilde daughter F W 7 S NY NY NY none
40. Mittendorf, Constantine son M W 4 5/12 S NY NY NY none
41. McGuire, Susan servant F W 23 S Ireland Ireland Ireland nurse, child's
42. Mittendorf, Matilda mother F W 54 Wd NY Germany France none
43. Sherer, Mary servant F W 53 S NY Germany Ireland housekeeper, private family
44. Haeflen, Amelia servant F W 64 Wd Germany Germany Germany cook, private family

The two oldest children were in school. It is not known if Susan McGuire, who came to America in 1915, was any relation to Marie (McGuire) Mittendorf.

The 1930 Census found this evolving family at the same address:[6]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
11. Mittendorf, George S. head M W 51 M NY Germany NY lawyer, general practice
12. Mittendorf, Marie head F W 46 M NY N. Ireland MA none
13. Mittendorf, W. Frederick son M W 20 S NY NY NY none
14. Mittendorf, Constantine son M W 14 S NY NY NY none
15. Mittendorf, Matilde daughter F W 17 S NY NY NY none
16. Bazot, Eugene servant M W 36 M France France France butler, private family
17. Bazot, Adrienne servant F W 42 M France France France cook, private family

All three children were in school. The Bazots came to America in 1924.

The 1940 Census reported George and Marie Mittendorf and their son Constantine at the same address. Ann and Eugene Bogart continued to work as their servants, maid and butler respectively.[7]

The following obituary from the New York Times summarizes some of the important events in his life:[8]

G. S. Mittendorf, 74, Attorney 49 Years
Lawyer Who Appealed Astor Tax Case in Supreme Court After World War I Dies

George S. Mittendorf, a member of the law firm of Mitchell, Capron, Marsh, Angulo & Cooney, 20 Exchange Place, died Monday night in Roosevelt Hospital. His age was 74.

Mr. Mittendorf, whose home was at 130 East Ninety-fifth Street, had been a member of the firm and its predecessors for forty-two years. He began the practice of law in New York in 1903 with Turner, Ralston & Horan.

He was graduated 1899 from Yale College, where he was manager of the first Yale hockey team, and received his law degree from the Columbia Law School in 1902. Mr. Mittendorf took post-graduate work at the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1903. . . .

Mr. Mittendorf is survived by his mother, Mrs. Matile A. Mittendorf; his widow Marie E.; two sons, W. Frederick Mittendorf of Medfield, MA, and Constantine Mittendorf of New York, a daughter Mrs. Matilde Zalinski of Scarsdale, N.Y.; two brothers, Dr. William. K. Mittendorf of Tampa, Fla., and Alfred D. Mittendorf of New York.

Concerning the children of George and Marie:

William Frederick Mittendorf graduated from Yale University in 1932. At the time of his wedding, in 1935, he was working for Baker, Ltd., in London, England. By the time of the 1940 Census they were back in New York City, 32 Washington Square West; William was working as a salesman for precious metals. They must have been in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts in 1944, as that is where and when their daughter Natalie was born. William's wife, Marie (McMahon) Mittendorf, died in 1964. Within a year, William married Eleanor Stockton (Shaw) Canham.[9] Eleanor's obituary reads in part:[10]

Mittendorf, Eleanor Shaw
Died at home on Monday, February 25th. She was born in Boston on May 18, 1915, the oldest child of Samuel Parkman Shaw and Jane Mason Stockton Shaw. She graduated from the Winsor School in Brookline in 1933 and from Bryn Mawr College in 1938 with degrees in French and Music. In 1942 she married C. Archibald Canham, an officer in the Royal Navy. After the war they and their two children moved with the Navy to Wales, England, and Malta. When her husband retired in 1955 they moved back to the United States and lived in Dedham, Massachusetts. The marriage ended in 1963. In 1965 she and W. Frederick Mittendorf were married and moved to Bernardsville, NJ. After his death in 1994, she moved to Peapack. . . .

William died in 1994, Eleanor in 2013.

Mathilde Mittendorf married Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski. He was president and CEO of Life Insurance Co. of North America. Zalinski received an MBA from Harvard, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.[11]

Constantine Joseph Mittendorf graduated from Yale University in 1937 and Columbia School of Law in 1940. During World War II he served in Naval Intelligence in Washington, D.C. as a Lieutenant. Mittendorf served under Fleet Commander, later Admiral, Ernest J. King, who was Commander in Chief of the Navy and member of the Joint Chiefs. As Chief of Naval Operatins, King was responsible for all global operations and strategic planning for the Navy during World War II.[12]

Constantine later became a prominent attorney, probably at the firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf (Washington, D.C. and New York), now Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf. After the death of Constantine, his widow Marcella married Baron Serge A. Korff, a world renown physicist. Korff led worldwide observations of cosmic rays in the 1940s and 1950s, using balloons and other aircreaft. In 1947 one of the balloon assemblages flew over New Jersey, Queens and Connecticut, leading to a flurry of reports of flying saucers![13]

George and Marie (McGuire) Mittendorf had the following children:

  1. WILLIAM FREDERICK3 MITTENDORF[14] b. at New York on 3 March 1910; d. at Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, on 30 December 1994; m(1). at Ossining, Westchester County, New York, on 27 July 1935 MARIE McMAHON, b. at New York on 1909, d. at Manhattan on 7 July 1964, child of Joseph T. McMahon. William m(2). on 1965 ELEANOR STOCKTON (SHAW) CANHAM, b. at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 18 May 1915, d. at Peapack, Somerset County, New Jersey, on 25 February 2015, child of Samuel P. Shaw, Jr., and Jane M. Stockton. Eleanor had previously m(1). on 1942 COLIN ARCHIBALD CANHAM. Child of William and Marie:
    1. Natalie Elsie Mittendorf b. at Boston on 1944; m. at Bernardsville, Somerset County, on 27 February 1965 Terrence Joseph Gallagher. Children of Natalie and Terrance:
      1. Sheila Gallagher m. ________ Littell.
      2. Katherine Gallagher
      3. James Gallagher
  2. MATHILDA ELEANOR3 MITTENDORF[15] b. at Manhattan on 3 July 1912; d. at Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on 4 January 2002; m. at Manhattan on 15 July 1939 EDMUND LOUIS GRAY ZALINSKI, b. at Utah on 18 August 1915, d. at Bryn Mawr, Delaware County, on 20 January 2005. Children of Mathilda and Edmund:
    1. Nancy Zalinski m. ________ Johnson.
    2. Teal Zalinski m. ________ Davidson.
    3. Susanne Zalinski m/ ________ Williams.
  3. CONSTANTINE JOSEPH3 MITTENDORF[16] b. at Manhattan on 8 August 1915; d. there on 10 May 1961; m. at Pittsburgh, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, on 23 January 1942 MARCELLA CALLERY HeRON, b. at Pittsburgh on 18 November 1920, d. at Manhattan on 9 August 2008, child of Walter S. Heron. Marcella m(2). (license 1963) PHILIP BRETT, Jr. Marcella m(3). (license 1978) SERGE A. KORFF. Children of Constantine and Marcella:
    1. Marcella Callery Mittendorf m. Stuyvesant Wainwright III.
    2. Ann Marie Mittendorf
    3. George Samuel Mittendorf
    4. William Frederick Mittendorf b. at Manhattan on 18 April 1949

NOTES

1"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 31 May 2018), New York County, New York, draft board 164, no. 2606, George S. Mittendorf; citing : National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C., microfilm record group M1509: Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. "G. S. Mittendorf, 74, Attorney 49 Years," New York Times, 12 November 1952; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives, "New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2021), certificate 22107; Mittendorf-McGuire. New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives., "New York, New York, Extracted Birth Index, 1866-1909," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2021), Certificate 384729; Mary McGuire. New York City Department of Health, "New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2021), Certificate 19762, Marie Mittendorf.
2Saint Luke's Methodist Church (Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library; New York, New York), Baptisms, , George Samuel Mittendorf, 1880; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 July 2021).
3Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Manhattan, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 728, p. 20B, household 540, George Mitteldorf family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 July 2021); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
4"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," New York County, New York, draft board 164, no. 2606, George S. Mittendorf.
5Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Manhattan, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 1098, roll 1214, p. 9A, household 187, George S. Mittendorf family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 March 2018); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
6Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Manhattan, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 539, p. 33A, household 680, George S. Mittendorf; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 19 March 2018); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
7Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Manhattan, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 31-1306, p. 1B, household 15, George Mittendorf family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2021); NARA microfilm group T627.
8"G. S. Mittendorf, 74, Attorney 49 Years."
9"Marie McMhon to Wed," New York Times, 31 December 1934; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. "Mittendorf-McMahon," New York Times, 28 July 1935; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. 1940 Census, Manhattan, New York County, New York, ED 31-906, p. 4A, household 96, William Mittendorf family.
10"Mittendorf, Eleanor Shaw," obituary, Boston (Massachusetts) Globe, 3 March 2013; Newspapers+ (newspapers.com : accessed 15 July 2021).
11"Edmund L. Zalinski," obituary, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Inquirer, 2 February 2005; Newspapers+ (newspapers.com : accessed 15 July 2021). p. B9.
12Elaine Shisler Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too: A Portrait of the Bagster-Collins Family Tree (N.p.: self published, [2010]), 53.
13Ibid.
14Information on the family of William Frederick Mittendorf is from: Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 April 2017), William F. Mittendorf, 155-16-0876. New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, "New Jersey Death Index, 1901-2017," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 July 2021), William F Mittendorf. "Mittendorf-McMahon." Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 52. "New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965," certificate 14422; Marie Mittendorf. Massachusetts Archives, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, 1915 Boston Birtls, v. 1, p. 354, Eleanor Shaw, ; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 28 July 2021). "Mittendorf, Eleanor Shaw." Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, "Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Births [1916–1970]," index, Ancestry (ancestry.dom : accessed 15 July 2021), Natalie Elise Mittendorf. "T. J. Gallagher Weds Natalie E. Mittendorf," New York Times, 28 February 1965; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003.
15Information on the family of Mathilda Eleanor Mittendorf is from: "New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965," Mathilde Mittendorf. "Zalinski," Death Notices, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Inquirer, 6 January 2004; Newspapers+ (newspapers.com : accessed 16 July 2021). p. B11. New York City Department of Records & Information Services;, "New York, New York, Index to Marriage Licenses, 1908-1910, 1938-1940," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 July 2021), certificate 9075; Zalinski-Mittendorf. "U.S. Social Security Death Index", Edmund L. Zalinski.
16Information on the family of Constantine Joseph Mittendorf is from: "New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965," certificate 41772; Constantine Mittendorf. "Deaths: Mittendorf," New York Times, 12 May 1961; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. "Marcella Heron Bride," New York Times, 24 January 1943; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Pleasant Town, Westchester County, New York, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 16 July 2021), Marcella Callery Heron Mittendorf; Originally Created by: Marie Bonafonte, Maintained by: Dragon Lady. "New York, New York, Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018," Brett-Mittendorf, license 31138; Korff-Brett, license 1441. Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 53.

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