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Message:: [QUOTE="dc69, post: 814329, member: 23456"]Charles Schlecht - My gr-grandfather I want to share with you my research on Charles Schlecht, my gr-grandfather.  The notes are old and I have not updated them in quite some time.  I am not a coin or currency collector and know nothing about the hobby other than what I find in my genealogy research.  I do have an engraved print of 2 pictures that were aquired on e-bay, one done for John George Brown and the other I'm not sure of, which is called "Alone".   I thought to share this information with you in the hopes of keeping my gr-grandfather's genius alive.  I have found more information about him through sites like yours, rather than from any family members, most of whom are not with us today. Enjoy and I trust you will share and send me corrections of anything you may find conflicting or incorrect.  Herbert Otto Schlecht, the last son of Charles, is my grandfather, whom I never met.  I have nothing from anyone in the family.My email is <a href="mailto:dominicancommercial69@yahoo.com">dominicancommercial69@yahoo.com</a> - Eileen  Charles Schlecht<ul> <li>Born 6/11/1843, Stuttgart, Neckarkreis, Mitenburg?, Wurttemberg, Germany</li> <li>Immigrates to US 12/24/1853</li> <li>1859 - Apprentice for American Bank Note Co.</li> <li>1862 worked at 626 Broadway as engraver</li> <li>Volunteered for US Army on 9/25/1862 with Co. B, 9th NY (Hawkins Zouaves), and transferred to Co. H, 3rd NY Infantry.  Discharged 7/10/1865.</li> <li>186(5) joins Western Bank Note Co. of Chicago  </li> </ul>·       Naturalized 3/15/1869 <ul> <li>Marries Clara Thieme 10/11/1870</li> <li>Children: Clara Hortense (1871), Edwin Charles (1874), Walter William (1876), Carl Frederick (1878), Agnes A. (1880), Albert (1883) and Herbert Otto (1886)</li> <li>1879 worked at 822 Broadway</li> <li>1882 – works at American Bank Note Co.</li> <li>1886-1897 – BEP, Manhattan & Washington, DC</li> <li>1892 – Worked at 153 4th Ave.</li> <li>1893 – Appointed to BEP</li> <li>1897 – Resigned from BEP – worked 874 Broadway</li> <li>1900 – still on 57th St., Manhattan, working at 113 (Nassau Street) Tribune Bldg.  </li> <li>1902 – Worked at 154 Nassau</li> <li>1908 – Worked at 1511 3rd Ave.</li> <li>Dies 10/17/1932 at 1220 E. 23rd St., Brooklyn – age 89 - Stroke</li> </ul>Addresses:<ul> <li>1853 – 148 3rd St., Manhattan</li> <li>1859 – 541 6th St., Manhattan</li> <li>1862 – 65 Jefferson Ave., Jersey City, NJ</li> <li>1969 – 541 6th St., Manhattan</li> </ul> <ul> <li>1870 – 409 E. 50th St., Manhattan</li> <li>1872 - 446 E. 57th St., Manhattan, working at 56 Reade St. </li> <li>1879 – 156 Jefferson Ave., Jersey City Heights, NJ</li> <li>1881 – 65 Jefferson Ave., Jersey City Heights, NJ</li> <li>1883 – both Jersey City & E. 59(7)th St. listed</li> <li>1888 – 446 E. 57th St., Manhattan</li> <li>1901 - 2164 Bathgate Ave., Bronx</li> <li>1903 - 10 Riverview Terrace (near E. 58th St.) Manhattan</li> <li>1908 - 217 E. 71st St., Manhattan</li> <li>1910 – 1334 (1335) E. 48th St., Brooklyn</li> <li>1912 – 1037 Faile St., Bronx</li> <li>1925 - 1220 E. 23rd St., Brooklyn</li> </ul>Plates for publishers: “Eyes to the Blind” by A. F. Bellows“The Wish” by Percy Moran“Rustic Maiden, Motherly Advice” ?“Shoe Shine Boys” by John George Brown (Tuckered out – The Shoeshine Boy) “The Lost Child” by John George Brown “Jennie Brownscombe” / Charles Schlecht “Girl With White Rabbit”Leon Moran or John Leon Moran“Good Advice” ?“Holy Family”“Salome” Engravings: First Engraving – Admiral FooteE.M. Stanton1874 – President Franklin Pierce1878 – Edward Everett (face) - $50 Silver Certificate 1880 – Robert Morris (face) - $10 Silver Certificate1880 – William L. Marcy (face) - $1,000 Silver Certificate1882 – Engraved first Hawaiian postcard for American Bank Note Co.1886 – William A. Hendricks (face) - $10 Silver Certificate1886 - Winfield Scott Hancock (face) $2 Silver Certificate1886 – President Grover Cleveland1890 – David G. Farragut (face) $100 Treasury Note1890 – John Marshall (face) $20 Treasury Note1891 – William H. Seward - $50 Treasury Note1893 – Engraved Columbian Exposition diploma1896 – Educational Series – Silver CertificatesFace of the $1 bill and back except for portraits1896 - Face of $2 bill (with GFC Smillie) & portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse on backFace of unissued $10 billGen. George MeadePostmaster David M. KeyVignettes:Stephen DecaturNordic Battle SceneGov. Levi WoodburyVP Thomas A. Hendricks[/QUOTE]

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