Sixth Generation (Continued)
Julius WAGNER Jr.5 Born ca 1875 in PA.
1910 PA census reads:
Julius Wagner, Jr Age: 35 State: PA Color: W Enumeration District: 0108
Birth Place: Pennsylvania County: Berks, Reading Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Son Louis E 04, Pennsylvania
Daughter Blanch K NR, Pennsylvania
Sister Succa K 30, Pennsylvania (this is Lucca...a typo)
Reading City Directory, 1913
Wagner, Julius, Jr., clerk, 525 Penn., home 1304 Fairview
1920 census, Reading, Berks Co., PA, Fairview Street, enumeration district 124
Wagner, Julius 44 Head of household
Wagner, Martha 34, wife
Wagner, Earl L 14, son (he is called Louis E. Wagner elsewhere)
Wagner, Blanche 11, daughter
Reading City Directory 1921
Wagner, Julius Jr. (Martha), clerk 525 Penn, h 1304 Fairview
1930 PA census:
Julius Wagner, age 55, County: Berks, Reading Relation: Head of Household
Martha V. Wagner, age 44, wife
Blanche Wagner, age 22, daughter
Julius first married Helen KRUM. Helen died on 30 Jan 1910 in Reading, Berks Co., PA.
They had the following children:
In Nov 1919 when Julius was 44, he second married Martha V. TOTHEROH, daughter of Henry TOTHEROH & Ellen MATZ, in Reading, Berks Co., PA. Born ca 1885 in Reading, Berks Co., PA.
WAGNER.
Born on 17 Nov 1877. died on 17 Nov 1877; he was <1. Buried in German Lutheran Cemetery, Reading, PA.
Death record, office of Register of Wills, Berks Co. The premature child died at 3 hours age.
Lucca K. WAGNER6.
Born ca 1879. Lucca K. died in 1949; she was 70. Buried in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, Reading, Berks Co., PA.
Emily Adams Tait says Aunt Lucca was married a couple of times but could not remember details. Emily said she never had children.
Lucca sent a note to Eleanor Lasley (my mother) when Terine Lasley was born Oct 1946. This note is still in my possession
Terrine Elsie WAGNER.
Born on 5 Apr 1881 in Reading, Berks Co., PA.7 Terrine Elsie died in Kimberton, Chester Co., PA, on 23 Apr 1958; she was 77. Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shillington, Berks Co., PA.
Terrine Elsie Wagner was apparently her true name, but according to her daughter, Emily Adams Tait (12 Oct 2001 interview) she disliked the name Terrine as a first name and so she always used the name Elsie Terrine Wagner instead.
On 31 Mar 1904 when Terrine Elsie was 22, she married
Harry Ambrose ADAMS, son of Irvin K. “Arben” ADAMS (1855-1891) & Emily Clara HILL (1857-1936), in Reading, Berks Co., PA.
7 Born on 13 Feb 1882 in Reading, Berks Co., PA.7 Harry Ambrose died in Kimberton, Chester Co., PA, on 11 Jul 1959; he was 77. Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shillington, Berks Co., PA. At the age of <1, Harry Ambrose was baptized in Bern Church, Bern Twp, Berks Co., PA, on 22 Jul 1882. Occupation: tool & die maker, spent many years working for Doehler Comapny in Pottstown, PA & elsewhere.
Oral interview with Aunt Emmy (Emily Elsie Adams Tait) on 3 Dec 2000 indicates he was well respected in his field and was sought after in various tool & dye projects in 1920s and 1930s. Worked in Rochester, NY, Pottstown & Reading, PA and Detroit, MI (1930s). He had some sort of involvement with the development of the automobile speedometer, at least Jim & I were always told this as small children.
1900 census, Cumru Twp., Berks Co., PA, 18 year old Harry Adams is shown as a machinist and living with his aunt & uncle, Ellen & Bill Fichthorn.
Reading City Directory 1905
Adams, Harry A. Toolmaker h-203 W. Greenwich
Reading City Directory 1909, p. 88
Adams, Harry A. (Adams Water Motor Co.) h-123 Oley
Reading City Directory 1913
Adams, Harry A, (T. Elsie), diemkr, 635 Penn, h 538 N. 12th
1920 U.S. Census, Pottstown, Montgomery Co., PA
Harry A. Adams 37
Elsie T. Adams 38
Theodore V. Adams 14
Arben H. Adams 11
Emily E. 8
Eleanor K 7
Eleanor’s middle name was Catherine after her grandmother. Perhaps the census taker was thinking it was “Katherine”.
1930 census, Detroit, Wayne Co., MI, 22nd precinct, 82-213 sheet 27A
Adams, Harry A head 47 born PA
Adams, Elsie wife 48 born PA
Adams, Emily daughter 19 born NY
Adams, Eleanor daughter 17 born PA
Last will & testament copy in possession of Greg Lasley. Will was written 26 June 1958 and filed in Chester Co., PA. Emily Elsie Adams Tait, Executor. The will was written 26 June 1958, two months after the death of his wife, Terrine Elsie Wagner Adams, so she is not mentioned in the will. Mentioned in the will are Harry's three surviving children: Emily Elsie Tait, Eleanor Catherine Lasley, and Theodore Virgil Adams.
They had the following children:
Mable WAGNER.
Born ca 1883.
Mable married George KLOPP.
Richard WAGNER.
Born ca 1887.
Richard married Anna SNYDER.