Charles Frederick Lindauer

Charles Frederick Lindauer I (1836–1921) was a New York businessman and criminal. He was involved in the New York City corruption scandal of 1894, he was the policy dealer; cigar dealer and tobacconist in Manhattan and Hoboken, at Lindauer and Company; he was a Free and Accepted Mason.

Charles was born in 1836 in Philadelphia to Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815–1866) and Sophia Weber (1815–1891).

John Jacob Lindauer (1841–1888) who married Nellie X (1853–1899), worked as a cigar maker, and had several children and grandchildren; Louis Julius Lindauer (1842–1915) who married Mary Sheehan (1842–1888) and had several children and a few grandchildren but no known great-grandchildren; and Eloise Lindauer I (1852–1944) who married William Arthur Ensko II (1850–1889) and have several children and grandchildren.

In February 1857 Charles married Anna Augusta Kershaw (1841–1931), most likely in New York City.

Together Charles and Anna had the following children: Eloise Lindauer II (1861–1935) aka Ellie Lindauer, who married Maximillian S. Freudenberg I (1858–1921) aka Max Freudenberg; William Lindauer (1866-c1870); Adeline Lindauer I (1862-before1921) aka Ada Lindauer I, who married Charles L. Schoenfeld (c1860-?); Anna Lillian Lindauer (1872–1956) who married Ira Lowe (1875-bef1910); Harry Chauncey Lindauer I (1877–1923) who married Hannah Shea (1884–?) and died of syphilis; and LeBaron Hart Lindauer (1879–1945) aka Lee Lindauer, who is named after the physician that attended his birth, and he later married Catherine Harney (1878–1966).

Oscar most likely fathered children with other women and they include: Arthur Oscar Lindauer (1867–1944) who was a trapeze performer who never married and who doesn't appear on the 1870 census with the other children; Grover Cleveland Lindauer (1885–1968) with Mary Dunne as the mother; Louis Miller who is listed as a brother of Grover in a family photo; and Charlotte Lindauer (1869–1894) aka Lottie Lindauer, with Caroline Ritter as the mother. Lottie was buried in Brooklyn with Charles' other children. Other children exist that died at birth or as infants and are buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, but their birth and death certificates must still be found in the New York archives to confirm if they are the children of Charles or one of his siblings.

Tom Savini of the Livingston Masonic Library writes: "Brother [Charles] Lindauer received his first Masonic degree in 1861 at the age of 24. His occupation was 'clerk', his birthplace reads 'America', and his residence as 'New York'. The date of his first degree was March 23, 1861; he received his 2nd degree on April 03, 1861; and he completed his membership in the lodge with his 3rd degree on January 27, 1864. It seems possible that Brother Lindauer took part in the Civil War, as it is not usual to have a three-year gap between the 2nd and 3rd degrees."

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