The son of Carl Friedrich Grundmann and Ida Maria Dorothea Van Leenders, Paul Carl Grundmann was born in Neufahrwasser, a district within the city of Danzig, then the capital of the Province of Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia and today Nowy Port in the modern city of Gdańsk, Poland. At age 23, he departed his homeland for the promise of America, boarding the feeder ship "German Empire" on November 9th, 1894 at the Port of Hamburg for a short journey to Liverpool, England, where he would board the newly-christened ocean liner SS Lucania for the transatlantic voyage. The Cunard-owned vessel departed Liverpool on Nov. 17th, 1894 for its second-ever crossing (the first having set the transatlantic speed record), passenger Paul "Grundman" having purchased ticket #47181. The Lucania arrived safely at Ellis Island in New York Harbor on Nov. 26th, 1894, where Paul would soon find work in the Borough of Manhattan as a hotel bartender. He married Anna Idler in Manhattan on Dec. 12th, 1899, and to this union were born sons Paul Carl Grundman, Jr. in 1911 and Frederick Benjamin Grundman in 1913, the family having moved to the Bronx soon before Frederick's birth. Paul would later work as a print shop superintendent in the borough for a number of years and would die there, being laid to rest on May 9th, 1938 in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The son of Carl Friedrich Grundmann and Ida Maria Dorothea Van Leenders, Paul Carl Grundmann was born in Neufahrwasser, a district within the city of Danzig, then the capital of the Province of Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia and today Nowy Port in the modern city of Gdańsk, Poland. At age 23, he departed his homeland for the promise of America, boarding the feeder ship "German Empire" on November 9th, 1894 at the Port of Hamburg for a short journey to Liverpool, England, where he would board the newly-christened ocean liner SS Lucania for the transatlantic voyage. The Cunard-owned vessel departed Liverpool on Nov. 17th, 1894 for its second-ever crossing (the first having set the transatlantic speed record), passenger Paul "Grundman" having purchased ticket #47181. The Lucania arrived safely at Ellis Island in New York Harbor on Nov. 26th, 1894, where Paul would soon find work in the Borough of Manhattan as a hotel bartender. He married Anna Idler in Manhattan on Dec. 12th, 1899, and to this union were born sons Paul Carl Grundman, Jr. in 1911 and Frederick Benjamin Grundman in 1913, the family having moved to the Bronx soon before Frederick's birth. Paul would later work as a print shop superintendent in the borough for a number of years and would die there, being laid to rest on May 9th, 1938 in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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