Mr. Hess was a 16 year resident of the Orlando, Florida area when he died at his home, 645 E. Marks Street, of myocarditis.
His wife was Eliza M Hess, who predeceased him.
His parents were Bernhard Hess, of Europe and Louisa Conrad, of Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Informant of record was Elsie Sheridan, of the same address.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 25, November 2, 1940 - August 11, 1941, p. 131
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Orlando Evening Star 9 Jan 1941, Thu., p. 1
E.B. Hess Dies at Home In Orlando; Famous Inventor Was 83 Years Old
Edward B. Hess, 83, who started as a $3 a week clerk and later gained a world-wide fame as the inventor of the Royal Typewriter, died here early this morning at his beautiful home at 645 East Marks Street.
Altho he had been ill for some time, the death of the noted inventor and ardent Orlando booster brought expressions of keen regret and sorrow from hosts of people who had loved the small, stout, dapper bald-headed man.
For E.b. Hess was a man of electric personality, generating friends as he went. His simplicity was as great as his prominence in the invention and business world. The small man as well as the great man could talk with him and quickly learn to like him.
He died this morning of various complications and old age. He will be buried at Louisville, Ky., in the family plot that holds the body of his wife, who died some years ago. The burial services will be held Sunday morning.
Brief funeral services will be held at the Carey Hand Chapel in Orlando at 11 o'clock Friday morning with Rabbi M.A. Skop officiating.
Mr. Hess leaves a number of survivors, the closest relatives being two sisters and a brother, Celestine Lanfron and Daisy Hess Meyers of Kentucky and Emile Hess, also from that State.
His surviving nieces are Elsie Sheridan of Orlando; Daisy Belle Wolf, Louise Sternberger, both of Kentucky; ay Mack, Cincinnati; Margaret S. Wass of Ohio. His nephews are Clemence Nahn, George Sheridan, Philip E. Sheridan and Walters Sheridan.
He leaves one grand niece, Louise Conrad Nahn of Ohio.
Mr. Hess had been a resident of Orlando since 1924 and he always referred to his moving here as "a fortunate mistake." He and Mrs. Hess had been spending the Winter in St. Petersburg, but Mrs. Hess, finding it dull there, proposed a motor trip over Florida.
Orlando was one of the cities they visited. When she saw the lakes of this community, the flowers and the bird life, she turned to her husband and said "this is where I would like to live."
Mr. Hess immediately went in search of a building site and selected Marks Street because it was the highest piece of ground he could find in the city.
Mr. Hess was born into a family of orthodox and wealthy Jewish merchants. His father was a partner in Bloom and Co., of Louisville, Ky., and when young Hess was 16 years of age he went to work in his father's business at $3 a week, acting as erran boy, stamp licker and later a bookkeeper.
He rose in the business and finally took to the road for the firm. But he was not in love with his job. He detested traveling and he didn't like selling, He often said that the ears in the South of those days were terrible and that the hotel accommodations were worse.
He had married a beautiful Irish girl and together they made up their minds to cut stakes and leave for the East. They had $1,600 and that would go a long way, they told each other.
The young couple landed in New York and for a time Hess was almost persuaded to become an architect, but that entailed going back to school and he was determined to remain in the business world.
Young Hess always had an inquisitive mind. He like to take a sewing machine apart and put it together again. Once as a youth he took his mother's machine apart and when he had it together again it worked with greater efficiency. Later he added several gadgets to the contraption which produced startling results with cloth.
So as he grew older this internet trait developed and grew and in 1892 after having got the feel of New York and after having met many of its celebrities he discovered a way to improve the adding machines of the National Cash Register Company.
He had previously set up a machine shop in New York and found solutions to mechanical problems that had other inventors stumped. He found a metal that made dress snaps come apart easily. For that he got a check for $1,000 for just and afternoon's work.
Hess then invented a [part] on a sewing machine that would make French cuffs on trousers so that the stitches would not show on the outside. That job was performed for Rogers Peet and Company, and when it was finished he was well on the road to fame and fortune.
He never stopped tinkering. He saw the need for a cheap adding machine for small shops and business houses one that would retail for around $75. He went on the quest of such a machine, had it perfected in six months, had a company financed for its production and then sold out at a good price before the machines started to roll off for retail.
J.M. Stoughton had been his partner in the work and together they erected a well equipped machine shop with the profits. here many more ingenious contrivances were perfected and finally Hess perfected the Royal Typewriter.
Some of the biggest money in the land was ready to finance production of the machine. Among such money barons backing Hess were the Guggenheims.
A company was formed and Hess retained a large chunk of the stock. A factory was erected in Hartford, Conn. in 1907
In the long span of years between then and now the Royal Typewriter COmpany had become one of the greatest business institutions of the country. Thru the years however, Hess continued to improve and modernize the Royal. To make it a better and better piece of office equipment was one of the driving forces of his later life.
At the time of his death he was vice president of the company.
When the Hess's moved to New York, Tony Pastors was in full swing. He watched closely the career of Evelyn Nesbit, the show girl who married Harry K Thaw who later killed Stanford White.
He knew Frank Sanger, manager of Madison Square Garden, Perry Tiffany of the famous jewelry concern and John Carson, Nephew of August Belmont.
Hess ate Parkerhouse rolls at Parker's famous restaurant and he dined frequently with Mrs. Hess at Delmonico's.
But in his later years as a resident of Orlando, the active little man often remarked that he never desired to leave this city. He would putter around his beautiful grounds, come down town frequently with his cane, meet and talk with his many friends.
And many friends now mourn his passing because it closed the chapter of a life so many millions yearn for, yet few attain.
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Orlando Evening Star 10 Jan 1941, p. 7
Funeral services for Mr. Edward Hess who died Thursday morning were held at the Carey Hand Chapel today at 11 o'clock with the Rabbi Skop officiating.
After reading the impressive Jewish ritual, Rabbi Skop spoke feelingly of Mr. Hess who was beloved by hundreds in this section where he had reside for more that 15 years.
Being the third child of a family of 12, born to parents who came from Germany before the middle of the 19th century, Rabbi Skop said Mr. Hess was fortunate in being able to develop his own life according to the American custom because of the financial independence of his parents.
"And Edward Hess," he said "was not only Jewish, bur thoroly [sic] American, and developed a wonderful philosophy along the American ideals."
Rabbi Skop spoke of the debase wife, "the beautiful Irish Catholic, Elsie Sheridan, whom MR. Hess loved tenderly and devotedly until God Calle dher several years ago. Their life was rich and it was their privilege to celebrate their 75th, the diamond anniversary." "On his cemetery stone," Rabbi Skop said "Mr. Hess wanted this inscription, 'Edward Hess, husband of Elsie,' a fitting tribute of his love for so beautiful a woman."
Rabbi Skop said there are many types of Jews, but two, which are prominent, "those who are made by their environment and what is said about them by non-Jews, and those who are above that and make their own environment." Edward Hess, Rabbi Skop said, was of the latter class.
"Not only was he a great inventor, but he had an encyclopedic mind," said the speaker. "He not only created things, but befriended others who did likewise, and was intimately acquainted with some of the greatest financiers of the nation."
He was the oldest living member of the Elks Lodge of Louisville, Ky, and interested in the activities of the local lodge, as we'll as the Rotary Club, until he became too weak to continue participating in its activities.
"Mr. Hess," said the Jewish Rabbi, "was a real liberal. I am certain if he had his way about it there would don't only be a Rabbi officiating here today, but a Catholic Priest and a Protestant Minister, as well."
Many prominent Orlando's from civic, business and official life were present at the services. The floral tributes were many and beautiful.
The body will be sent to Louisville where burial will take place Sunday morning in the family plot.
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Orlando Evening Star. 11 Jan 1941, Sat., p. 1
Hess Estate Filed
Value Estimated at $67,000; Name Executrices
Miss Elsie Sheridan, Orlando, niece by marriage of the late Edward B. Hess, Orlando resident and inventor of the Royal Typewriter, was bequeathed the beautiful Hess home on East Marks Street, all its furniture and fixtures, his automobiles and an additional $7,500 cash under terms of the will filed in probate court today.
Letters testamentary filed in the court estimated the estate at $67,000, consisting of $40,000 in personal property in the State, $25,000 in real estate in Florida and $2,000 personal property outside the State.
In addition, Miss Sheridan was allotted $2,500 as an executrix. The same amount was allotted to Louise C. Nahm of Louisville, Ky., the granddaughter of Hess' deceased sister, Flora Hess Mayer, who was named another executrix. She was also bequeathed his watch.
Hess will stipulated that all his real property in the State go to Miss Sheridan. This was estimated to Value $25,000. The document stated that the extent of bequest to Miss Sheridan was in repayment for all the kindness she had shown Mr. Hess during his lifetime.
To George Sheridan, Phillips Sheridan, Walter Sheridan and Margaret Sheridan Wass, nephews and a niece, Hess left $1,000 each. Sums ranging from $1,00 to $100 were left to his domestics.
The residue of the state was left in equal amounts to a number of other nieces and nephews and sisters and brother.
The will stipulated that Miss Sheridan was to receive her portion of the estate immediately following his death and that she and Louise Nahm as the executrices be not required to post bond.
Contributor: Merf (47064479)
His wife was Eliza M Hess, who predeceased him.
His parents were Bernhard Hess, of Europe and Louisa Conrad, of Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Informant of record was Elsie Sheridan, of the same address.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 25, November 2, 1940 - August 11, 1941, p. 131
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Orlando Evening Star 9 Jan 1941, Thu., p. 1
E.B. Hess Dies at Home In Orlando; Famous Inventor Was 83 Years Old
Edward B. Hess, 83, who started as a $3 a week clerk and later gained a world-wide fame as the inventor of the Royal Typewriter, died here early this morning at his beautiful home at 645 East Marks Street.
Altho he had been ill for some time, the death of the noted inventor and ardent Orlando booster brought expressions of keen regret and sorrow from hosts of people who had loved the small, stout, dapper bald-headed man.
For E.b. Hess was a man of electric personality, generating friends as he went. His simplicity was as great as his prominence in the invention and business world. The small man as well as the great man could talk with him and quickly learn to like him.
He died this morning of various complications and old age. He will be buried at Louisville, Ky., in the family plot that holds the body of his wife, who died some years ago. The burial services will be held Sunday morning.
Brief funeral services will be held at the Carey Hand Chapel in Orlando at 11 o'clock Friday morning with Rabbi M.A. Skop officiating.
Mr. Hess leaves a number of survivors, the closest relatives being two sisters and a brother, Celestine Lanfron and Daisy Hess Meyers of Kentucky and Emile Hess, also from that State.
His surviving nieces are Elsie Sheridan of Orlando; Daisy Belle Wolf, Louise Sternberger, both of Kentucky; ay Mack, Cincinnati; Margaret S. Wass of Ohio. His nephews are Clemence Nahn, George Sheridan, Philip E. Sheridan and Walters Sheridan.
He leaves one grand niece, Louise Conrad Nahn of Ohio.
Mr. Hess had been a resident of Orlando since 1924 and he always referred to his moving here as "a fortunate mistake." He and Mrs. Hess had been spending the Winter in St. Petersburg, but Mrs. Hess, finding it dull there, proposed a motor trip over Florida.
Orlando was one of the cities they visited. When she saw the lakes of this community, the flowers and the bird life, she turned to her husband and said "this is where I would like to live."
Mr. Hess immediately went in search of a building site and selected Marks Street because it was the highest piece of ground he could find in the city.
Mr. Hess was born into a family of orthodox and wealthy Jewish merchants. His father was a partner in Bloom and Co., of Louisville, Ky., and when young Hess was 16 years of age he went to work in his father's business at $3 a week, acting as erran boy, stamp licker and later a bookkeeper.
He rose in the business and finally took to the road for the firm. But he was not in love with his job. He detested traveling and he didn't like selling, He often said that the ears in the South of those days were terrible and that the hotel accommodations were worse.
He had married a beautiful Irish girl and together they made up their minds to cut stakes and leave for the East. They had $1,600 and that would go a long way, they told each other.
The young couple landed in New York and for a time Hess was almost persuaded to become an architect, but that entailed going back to school and he was determined to remain in the business world.
Young Hess always had an inquisitive mind. He like to take a sewing machine apart and put it together again. Once as a youth he took his mother's machine apart and when he had it together again it worked with greater efficiency. Later he added several gadgets to the contraption which produced startling results with cloth.
So as he grew older this internet trait developed and grew and in 1892 after having got the feel of New York and after having met many of its celebrities he discovered a way to improve the adding machines of the National Cash Register Company.
He had previously set up a machine shop in New York and found solutions to mechanical problems that had other inventors stumped. He found a metal that made dress snaps come apart easily. For that he got a check for $1,000 for just and afternoon's work.
Hess then invented a [part] on a sewing machine that would make French cuffs on trousers so that the stitches would not show on the outside. That job was performed for Rogers Peet and Company, and when it was finished he was well on the road to fame and fortune.
He never stopped tinkering. He saw the need for a cheap adding machine for small shops and business houses one that would retail for around $75. He went on the quest of such a machine, had it perfected in six months, had a company financed for its production and then sold out at a good price before the machines started to roll off for retail.
J.M. Stoughton had been his partner in the work and together they erected a well equipped machine shop with the profits. here many more ingenious contrivances were perfected and finally Hess perfected the Royal Typewriter.
Some of the biggest money in the land was ready to finance production of the machine. Among such money barons backing Hess were the Guggenheims.
A company was formed and Hess retained a large chunk of the stock. A factory was erected in Hartford, Conn. in 1907
In the long span of years between then and now the Royal Typewriter COmpany had become one of the greatest business institutions of the country. Thru the years however, Hess continued to improve and modernize the Royal. To make it a better and better piece of office equipment was one of the driving forces of his later life.
At the time of his death he was vice president of the company.
When the Hess's moved to New York, Tony Pastors was in full swing. He watched closely the career of Evelyn Nesbit, the show girl who married Harry K Thaw who later killed Stanford White.
He knew Frank Sanger, manager of Madison Square Garden, Perry Tiffany of the famous jewelry concern and John Carson, Nephew of August Belmont.
Hess ate Parkerhouse rolls at Parker's famous restaurant and he dined frequently with Mrs. Hess at Delmonico's.
But in his later years as a resident of Orlando, the active little man often remarked that he never desired to leave this city. He would putter around his beautiful grounds, come down town frequently with his cane, meet and talk with his many friends.
And many friends now mourn his passing because it closed the chapter of a life so many millions yearn for, yet few attain.
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Orlando Evening Star 10 Jan 1941, p. 7
Funeral services for Mr. Edward Hess who died Thursday morning were held at the Carey Hand Chapel today at 11 o'clock with the Rabbi Skop officiating.
After reading the impressive Jewish ritual, Rabbi Skop spoke feelingly of Mr. Hess who was beloved by hundreds in this section where he had reside for more that 15 years.
Being the third child of a family of 12, born to parents who came from Germany before the middle of the 19th century, Rabbi Skop said Mr. Hess was fortunate in being able to develop his own life according to the American custom because of the financial independence of his parents.
"And Edward Hess," he said "was not only Jewish, bur thoroly [sic] American, and developed a wonderful philosophy along the American ideals."
Rabbi Skop spoke of the debase wife, "the beautiful Irish Catholic, Elsie Sheridan, whom MR. Hess loved tenderly and devotedly until God Calle dher several years ago. Their life was rich and it was their privilege to celebrate their 75th, the diamond anniversary." "On his cemetery stone," Rabbi Skop said "Mr. Hess wanted this inscription, 'Edward Hess, husband of Elsie,' a fitting tribute of his love for so beautiful a woman."
Rabbi Skop said there are many types of Jews, but two, which are prominent, "those who are made by their environment and what is said about them by non-Jews, and those who are above that and make their own environment." Edward Hess, Rabbi Skop said, was of the latter class.
"Not only was he a great inventor, but he had an encyclopedic mind," said the speaker. "He not only created things, but befriended others who did likewise, and was intimately acquainted with some of the greatest financiers of the nation."
He was the oldest living member of the Elks Lodge of Louisville, Ky, and interested in the activities of the local lodge, as we'll as the Rotary Club, until he became too weak to continue participating in its activities.
"Mr. Hess," said the Jewish Rabbi, "was a real liberal. I am certain if he had his way about it there would don't only be a Rabbi officiating here today, but a Catholic Priest and a Protestant Minister, as well."
Many prominent Orlando's from civic, business and official life were present at the services. The floral tributes were many and beautiful.
The body will be sent to Louisville where burial will take place Sunday morning in the family plot.
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Orlando Evening Star. 11 Jan 1941, Sat., p. 1
Hess Estate Filed
Value Estimated at $67,000; Name Executrices
Miss Elsie Sheridan, Orlando, niece by marriage of the late Edward B. Hess, Orlando resident and inventor of the Royal Typewriter, was bequeathed the beautiful Hess home on East Marks Street, all its furniture and fixtures, his automobiles and an additional $7,500 cash under terms of the will filed in probate court today.
Letters testamentary filed in the court estimated the estate at $67,000, consisting of $40,000 in personal property in the State, $25,000 in real estate in Florida and $2,000 personal property outside the State.
In addition, Miss Sheridan was allotted $2,500 as an executrix. The same amount was allotted to Louise C. Nahm of Louisville, Ky., the granddaughter of Hess' deceased sister, Flora Hess Mayer, who was named another executrix. She was also bequeathed his watch.
Hess will stipulated that all his real property in the State go to Miss Sheridan. This was estimated to Value $25,000. The document stated that the extent of bequest to Miss Sheridan was in repayment for all the kindness she had shown Mr. Hess during his lifetime.
To George Sheridan, Phillips Sheridan, Walter Sheridan and Margaret Sheridan Wass, nephews and a niece, Hess left $1,000 each. Sums ranging from $1,00 to $100 were left to his domestics.
The residue of the state was left in equal amounts to a number of other nieces and nephews and sisters and brother.
The will stipulated that Miss Sheridan was to receive her portion of the estate immediately following his death and that she and Louise Nahm as the executrices be not required to post bond.
Contributor: Merf (47064479)
Mr. Hess was a 16 year resident of the Orlando, Florida area when he died at his home, 645 E. Marks Street, of myocarditis.
His wife was Eliza M Hess, who predeceased him.
His parents were Bernhard Hess, of Europe and Louisa Conrad, of Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Informant of record was Elsie Sheridan, of the same address.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 25, November 2, 1940 - August 11, 1941, p. 131
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Orlando Evening Star 9 Jan 1941, Thu., p. 1
E.B. Hess Dies at Home In Orlando; Famous Inventor Was 83 Years Old
Edward B. Hess, 83, who started as a $3 a week clerk and later gained a world-wide fame as the inventor of the Royal Typewriter, died here early this morning at his beautiful home at 645 East Marks Street.
Altho he had been ill for some time, the death of the noted inventor and ardent Orlando booster brought expressions of keen regret and sorrow from hosts of people who had loved the small, stout, dapper bald-headed man.
For E.b. Hess was a man of electric personality, generating friends as he went. His simplicity was as great as his prominence in the invention and business world. The small man as well as the great man could talk with him and quickly learn to like him.
He died this morning of various complications and old age. He will be buried at Louisville, Ky., in the family plot that holds the body of his wife, who died some years ago. The burial services will be held Sunday morning.
Brief funeral services will be held at the Carey Hand Chapel in Orlando at 11 o'clock Friday morning with Rabbi M.A. Skop officiating.
Mr. Hess leaves a number of survivors, the closest relatives being two sisters and a brother, Celestine Lanfron and Daisy Hess Meyers of Kentucky and Emile Hess, also from that State.
His surviving nieces are Elsie Sheridan of Orlando; Daisy Belle Wolf, Louise Sternberger, both of Kentucky; ay Mack, Cincinnati; Margaret S. Wass of Ohio. His nephews are Clemence Nahn, George Sheridan, Philip E. Sheridan and Walters Sheridan.
He leaves one grand niece, Louise Conrad Nahn of Ohio.
Mr. Hess had been a resident of Orlando since 1924 and he always referred to his moving here as "a fortunate mistake." He and Mrs. Hess had been spending the Winter in St. Petersburg, but Mrs. Hess, finding it dull there, proposed a motor trip over Florida.
Orlando was one of the cities they visited. When she saw the lakes of this community, the flowers and the bird life, she turned to her husband and said "this is where I would like to live."
Mr. Hess immediately went in search of a building site and selected Marks Street because it was the highest piece of ground he could find in the city.
Mr. Hess was born into a family of orthodox and wealthy Jewish merchants. His father was a partner in Bloom and Co., of Louisville, Ky., and when young Hess was 16 years of age he went to work in his father's business at $3 a week, acting as erran boy, stamp licker and later a bookkeeper.
He rose in the business and finally took to the road for the firm. But he was not in love with his job. He detested traveling and he didn't like selling, He often said that the ears in the South of those days were terrible and that the hotel accommodations were worse.
He had married a beautiful Irish girl and together they made up their minds to cut stakes and leave for the East. They had $1,600 and that would go a long way, they told each other.
The young couple landed in New York and for a time Hess was almost persuaded to become an architect, but that entailed going back to school and he was determined to remain in the business world.
Young Hess always had an inquisitive mind. He like to take a sewing machine apart and put it together again. Once as a youth he took his mother's machine apart and when he had it together again it worked with greater efficiency. Later he added several gadgets to the contraption which produced startling results with cloth.
So as he grew older this internet trait developed and grew and in 1892 after having got the feel of New York and after having met many of its celebrities he discovered a way to improve the adding machines of the National Cash Register Company.
He had previously set up a machine shop in New York and found solutions to mechanical problems that had other inventors stumped. He found a metal that made dress snaps come apart easily. For that he got a check for $1,000 for just and afternoon's work.
Hess then invented a [part] on a sewing machine that would make French cuffs on trousers so that the stitches would not show on the outside. That job was performed for Rogers Peet and Company, and when it was finished he was well on the road to fame and fortune.
He never stopped tinkering. He saw the need for a cheap adding machine for small shops and business houses one that would retail for around $75. He went on the quest of such a machine, had it perfected in six months, had a company financed for its production and then sold out at a good price before the machines started to roll off for retail.
J.M. Stoughton had been his partner in the work and together they erected a well equipped machine shop with the profits. here many more ingenious contrivances were perfected and finally Hess perfected the Royal Typewriter.
Some of the biggest money in the land was ready to finance production of the machine. Among such money barons backing Hess were the Guggenheims.
A company was formed and Hess retained a large chunk of the stock. A factory was erected in Hartford, Conn. in 1907
In the long span of years between then and now the Royal Typewriter COmpany had become one of the greatest business institutions of the country. Thru the years however, Hess continued to improve and modernize the Royal. To make it a better and better piece of office equipment was one of the driving forces of his later life.
At the time of his death he was vice president of the company.
When the Hess's moved to New York, Tony Pastors was in full swing. He watched closely the career of Evelyn Nesbit, the show girl who married Harry K Thaw who later killed Stanford White.
He knew Frank Sanger, manager of Madison Square Garden, Perry Tiffany of the famous jewelry concern and John Carson, Nephew of August Belmont.
Hess ate Parkerhouse rolls at Parker's famous restaurant and he dined frequently with Mrs. Hess at Delmonico's.
But in his later years as a resident of Orlando, the active little man often remarked that he never desired to leave this city. He would putter around his beautiful grounds, come down town frequently with his cane, meet and talk with his many friends.
And many friends now mourn his passing because it closed the chapter of a life so many millions yearn for, yet few attain.
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Orlando Evening Star 10 Jan 1941, p. 7
Funeral services for Mr. Edward Hess who died Thursday morning were held at the Carey Hand Chapel today at 11 o'clock with the Rabbi Skop officiating.
After reading the impressive Jewish ritual, Rabbi Skop spoke feelingly of Mr. Hess who was beloved by hundreds in this section where he had reside for more that 15 years.
Being the third child of a family of 12, born to parents who came from Germany before the middle of the 19th century, Rabbi Skop said Mr. Hess was fortunate in being able to develop his own life according to the American custom because of the financial independence of his parents.
"And Edward Hess," he said "was not only Jewish, bur thoroly [sic] American, and developed a wonderful philosophy along the American ideals."
Rabbi Skop spoke of the debase wife, "the beautiful Irish Catholic, Elsie Sheridan, whom MR. Hess loved tenderly and devotedly until God Calle dher several years ago. Their life was rich and it was their privilege to celebrate their 75th, the diamond anniversary." "On his cemetery stone," Rabbi Skop said "Mr. Hess wanted this inscription, 'Edward Hess, husband of Elsie,' a fitting tribute of his love for so beautiful a woman."
Rabbi Skop said there are many types of Jews, but two, which are prominent, "those who are made by their environment and what is said about them by non-Jews, and those who are above that and make their own environment." Edward Hess, Rabbi Skop said, was of the latter class.
"Not only was he a great inventor, but he had an encyclopedic mind," said the speaker. "He not only created things, but befriended others who did likewise, and was intimately acquainted with some of the greatest financiers of the nation."
He was the oldest living member of the Elks Lodge of Louisville, Ky, and interested in the activities of the local lodge, as we'll as the Rotary Club, until he became too weak to continue participating in its activities.
"Mr. Hess," said the Jewish Rabbi, "was a real liberal. I am certain if he had his way about it there would don't only be a Rabbi officiating here today, but a Catholic Priest and a Protestant Minister, as well."
Many prominent Orlando's from civic, business and official life were present at the services. The floral tributes were many and beautiful.
The body will be sent to Louisville where burial will take place Sunday morning in the family plot.
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Orlando Evening Star. 11 Jan 1941, Sat., p. 1
Hess Estate Filed
Value Estimated at $67,000; Name Executrices
Miss Elsie Sheridan, Orlando, niece by marriage of the late Edward B. Hess, Orlando resident and inventor of the Royal Typewriter, was bequeathed the beautiful Hess home on East Marks Street, all its furniture and fixtures, his automobiles and an additional $7,500 cash under terms of the will filed in probate court today.
Letters testamentary filed in the court estimated the estate at $67,000, consisting of $40,000 in personal property in the State, $25,000 in real estate in Florida and $2,000 personal property outside the State.
In addition, Miss Sheridan was allotted $2,500 as an executrix. The same amount was allotted to Louise C. Nahm of Louisville, Ky., the granddaughter of Hess' deceased sister, Flora Hess Mayer, who was named another executrix. She was also bequeathed his watch.
Hess will stipulated that all his real property in the State go to Miss Sheridan. This was estimated to Value $25,000. The document stated that the extent of bequest to Miss Sheridan was in repayment for all the kindness she had shown Mr. Hess during his lifetime.
To George Sheridan, Phillips Sheridan, Walter Sheridan and Margaret Sheridan Wass, nephews and a niece, Hess left $1,000 each. Sums ranging from $1,00 to $100 were left to his domestics.
The residue of the state was left in equal amounts to a number of other nieces and nephews and sisters and brother.
The will stipulated that Miss Sheridan was to receive her portion of the estate immediately following his death and that she and Louise Nahm as the executrices be not required to post bond.
Contributor: Merf (47064479)
His wife was Eliza M Hess, who predeceased him.
His parents were Bernhard Hess, of Europe and Louisa Conrad, of Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Informant of record was Elsie Sheridan, of the same address.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 25, November 2, 1940 - August 11, 1941, p. 131
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Orlando Evening Star 9 Jan 1941, Thu., p. 1
E.B. Hess Dies at Home In Orlando; Famous Inventor Was 83 Years Old
Edward B. Hess, 83, who started as a $3 a week clerk and later gained a world-wide fame as the inventor of the Royal Typewriter, died here early this morning at his beautiful home at 645 East Marks Street.
Altho he had been ill for some time, the death of the noted inventor and ardent Orlando booster brought expressions of keen regret and sorrow from hosts of people who had loved the small, stout, dapper bald-headed man.
For E.b. Hess was a man of electric personality, generating friends as he went. His simplicity was as great as his prominence in the invention and business world. The small man as well as the great man could talk with him and quickly learn to like him.
He died this morning of various complications and old age. He will be buried at Louisville, Ky., in the family plot that holds the body of his wife, who died some years ago. The burial services will be held Sunday morning.
Brief funeral services will be held at the Carey Hand Chapel in Orlando at 11 o'clock Friday morning with Rabbi M.A. Skop officiating.
Mr. Hess leaves a number of survivors, the closest relatives being two sisters and a brother, Celestine Lanfron and Daisy Hess Meyers of Kentucky and Emile Hess, also from that State.
His surviving nieces are Elsie Sheridan of Orlando; Daisy Belle Wolf, Louise Sternberger, both of Kentucky; ay Mack, Cincinnati; Margaret S. Wass of Ohio. His nephews are Clemence Nahn, George Sheridan, Philip E. Sheridan and Walters Sheridan.
He leaves one grand niece, Louise Conrad Nahn of Ohio.
Mr. Hess had been a resident of Orlando since 1924 and he always referred to his moving here as "a fortunate mistake." He and Mrs. Hess had been spending the Winter in St. Petersburg, but Mrs. Hess, finding it dull there, proposed a motor trip over Florida.
Orlando was one of the cities they visited. When she saw the lakes of this community, the flowers and the bird life, she turned to her husband and said "this is where I would like to live."
Mr. Hess immediately went in search of a building site and selected Marks Street because it was the highest piece of ground he could find in the city.
Mr. Hess was born into a family of orthodox and wealthy Jewish merchants. His father was a partner in Bloom and Co., of Louisville, Ky., and when young Hess was 16 years of age he went to work in his father's business at $3 a week, acting as erran boy, stamp licker and later a bookkeeper.
He rose in the business and finally took to the road for the firm. But he was not in love with his job. He detested traveling and he didn't like selling, He often said that the ears in the South of those days were terrible and that the hotel accommodations were worse.
He had married a beautiful Irish girl and together they made up their minds to cut stakes and leave for the East. They had $1,600 and that would go a long way, they told each other.
The young couple landed in New York and for a time Hess was almost persuaded to become an architect, but that entailed going back to school and he was determined to remain in the business world.
Young Hess always had an inquisitive mind. He like to take a sewing machine apart and put it together again. Once as a youth he took his mother's machine apart and when he had it together again it worked with greater efficiency. Later he added several gadgets to the contraption which produced startling results with cloth.
So as he grew older this internet trait developed and grew and in 1892 after having got the feel of New York and after having met many of its celebrities he discovered a way to improve the adding machines of the National Cash Register Company.
He had previously set up a machine shop in New York and found solutions to mechanical problems that had other inventors stumped. He found a metal that made dress snaps come apart easily. For that he got a check for $1,000 for just and afternoon's work.
Hess then invented a [part] on a sewing machine that would make French cuffs on trousers so that the stitches would not show on the outside. That job was performed for Rogers Peet and Company, and when it was finished he was well on the road to fame and fortune.
He never stopped tinkering. He saw the need for a cheap adding machine for small shops and business houses one that would retail for around $75. He went on the quest of such a machine, had it perfected in six months, had a company financed for its production and then sold out at a good price before the machines started to roll off for retail.
J.M. Stoughton had been his partner in the work and together they erected a well equipped machine shop with the profits. here many more ingenious contrivances were perfected and finally Hess perfected the Royal Typewriter.
Some of the biggest money in the land was ready to finance production of the machine. Among such money barons backing Hess were the Guggenheims.
A company was formed and Hess retained a large chunk of the stock. A factory was erected in Hartford, Conn. in 1907
In the long span of years between then and now the Royal Typewriter COmpany had become one of the greatest business institutions of the country. Thru the years however, Hess continued to improve and modernize the Royal. To make it a better and better piece of office equipment was one of the driving forces of his later life.
At the time of his death he was vice president of the company.
When the Hess's moved to New York, Tony Pastors was in full swing. He watched closely the career of Evelyn Nesbit, the show girl who married Harry K Thaw who later killed Stanford White.
He knew Frank Sanger, manager of Madison Square Garden, Perry Tiffany of the famous jewelry concern and John Carson, Nephew of August Belmont.
Hess ate Parkerhouse rolls at Parker's famous restaurant and he dined frequently with Mrs. Hess at Delmonico's.
But in his later years as a resident of Orlando, the active little man often remarked that he never desired to leave this city. He would putter around his beautiful grounds, come down town frequently with his cane, meet and talk with his many friends.
And many friends now mourn his passing because it closed the chapter of a life so many millions yearn for, yet few attain.
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Orlando Evening Star 10 Jan 1941, p. 7
Funeral services for Mr. Edward Hess who died Thursday morning were held at the Carey Hand Chapel today at 11 o'clock with the Rabbi Skop officiating.
After reading the impressive Jewish ritual, Rabbi Skop spoke feelingly of Mr. Hess who was beloved by hundreds in this section where he had reside for more that 15 years.
Being the third child of a family of 12, born to parents who came from Germany before the middle of the 19th century, Rabbi Skop said Mr. Hess was fortunate in being able to develop his own life according to the American custom because of the financial independence of his parents.
"And Edward Hess," he said "was not only Jewish, bur thoroly [sic] American, and developed a wonderful philosophy along the American ideals."
Rabbi Skop spoke of the debase wife, "the beautiful Irish Catholic, Elsie Sheridan, whom MR. Hess loved tenderly and devotedly until God Calle dher several years ago. Their life was rich and it was their privilege to celebrate their 75th, the diamond anniversary." "On his cemetery stone," Rabbi Skop said "Mr. Hess wanted this inscription, 'Edward Hess, husband of Elsie,' a fitting tribute of his love for so beautiful a woman."
Rabbi Skop said there are many types of Jews, but two, which are prominent, "those who are made by their environment and what is said about them by non-Jews, and those who are above that and make their own environment." Edward Hess, Rabbi Skop said, was of the latter class.
"Not only was he a great inventor, but he had an encyclopedic mind," said the speaker. "He not only created things, but befriended others who did likewise, and was intimately acquainted with some of the greatest financiers of the nation."
He was the oldest living member of the Elks Lodge of Louisville, Ky, and interested in the activities of the local lodge, as we'll as the Rotary Club, until he became too weak to continue participating in its activities.
"Mr. Hess," said the Jewish Rabbi, "was a real liberal. I am certain if he had his way about it there would don't only be a Rabbi officiating here today, but a Catholic Priest and a Protestant Minister, as well."
Many prominent Orlando's from civic, business and official life were present at the services. The floral tributes were many and beautiful.
The body will be sent to Louisville where burial will take place Sunday morning in the family plot.
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Orlando Evening Star. 11 Jan 1941, Sat., p. 1
Hess Estate Filed
Value Estimated at $67,000; Name Executrices
Miss Elsie Sheridan, Orlando, niece by marriage of the late Edward B. Hess, Orlando resident and inventor of the Royal Typewriter, was bequeathed the beautiful Hess home on East Marks Street, all its furniture and fixtures, his automobiles and an additional $7,500 cash under terms of the will filed in probate court today.
Letters testamentary filed in the court estimated the estate at $67,000, consisting of $40,000 in personal property in the State, $25,000 in real estate in Florida and $2,000 personal property outside the State.
In addition, Miss Sheridan was allotted $2,500 as an executrix. The same amount was allotted to Louise C. Nahm of Louisville, Ky., the granddaughter of Hess' deceased sister, Flora Hess Mayer, who was named another executrix. She was also bequeathed his watch.
Hess will stipulated that all his real property in the State go to Miss Sheridan. This was estimated to Value $25,000. The document stated that the extent of bequest to Miss Sheridan was in repayment for all the kindness she had shown Mr. Hess during his lifetime.
To George Sheridan, Phillips Sheridan, Walter Sheridan and Margaret Sheridan Wass, nephews and a niece, Hess left $1,000 each. Sums ranging from $1,00 to $100 were left to his domestics.
The residue of the state was left in equal amounts to a number of other nieces and nephews and sisters and brother.
The will stipulated that Miss Sheridan was to receive her portion of the estate immediately following his death and that she and Louise Nahm as the executrices be not required to post bond.
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