[PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection

[Fred Schneider]

Yes.  And, as you might expect, an uncommon name in the U. S., is very common in
Germany ... pages of them in any phone directory.  In the two World Wars, many
American Schneiders changed their names to Snider or Snyder to avoid
persecution; my family just changed how they pronounced it.  And my wife has
insisted on changing it back.  So I answer to Fred or Bill or Schneider or
Snider as long as you are calling me to dinner.

Interestingly, there are other very common names in my family.  Koch ... would
be Cook in English.  Wagner ... or wagon maker.  And the most common of all,
McGowan, which the English Anglicized to Smith.   The only uncommon name is
Rebele, so uncommon I cannot find anything that it can translate into except the
French word for rebel, hellian, trouble maker .... "And now you know the rest of
the story."

Boris Cefer wrote:

> Just a brief comment, rather not serious... Doesn't Schneider in German mean
> tailor? :-)
>
> Boris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:23 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection
>
> > An interesting comment on the Northside tailor shop, Fred.
> >
> > In the early 1900's, my (maternal) great grandfather, Joseph Wurdack,
> owned
> > a tailor shop on E. Ohio St. near James St.  The shop name was painted on
> > the brick side wall of the building, and it was still visible into the
> > 1970's.  I have his cutting shears, as well as a wooden coat hanger
> > imprinted with the shop's name.
> >
> > His son, Joseph Wurdack, Jr., continued the business until 1954, and by
> then
> > it was located on East St., just north of North Avenue.
> >
> > Both sides of my family were German and Austrian.  They came to Pittsburgh
> > as early as 1828, and all of them lived on the Northside - James St. near
> > what is now Allegheny General Hospital, Spring Hill and City View.
> >
> > My (maternal) grandfather's name was Lutz, another business name on the
> > Northside - Lutz Brewery on Chestnut St. at Spring Garden Ave. (now the
> site
> > of the fire station), and Lutz & Shramm (jelly and preserves plant) on E.
> > Ohio St. just east of the Heinz plant.  Both of these company buildings
> were
> > still standing in the 1960's.
> >
> > Bob 12/23/04
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:40 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection
> >
> > > Census enumeration worksheets from 1870 and 1880.  My great grandfather
> > ultimately moved himself, his German wife and his tailor shop over to
> > Sandusky Street next to Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side of
> the
> > River.  Ambition aside, Germans were not supposed to go there.  That was
> > English territory.
> > RR
> >
> >