MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER, age 69, died at his home of natural causes in South St. Louis in the presence of his wife ROSE in March, 1947. He was the father of four sons, and a stillborn daughter, Maria. MAX's ancestral first and middle names honored King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (a member of the Hapsburg--Wittelsbach royal dynasty), where a number of MAX's ancestors lived. His first name dates back more than 250 years in the family history to Germany.
MAX emigrated to the United States in October,1896 at the age of 17 with his parents, J. MAXIMILIAN and CRESZENTIA F. KAISER from Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, where they settled in St. Louis at the request of his brother-in-law, CHRIS F.W. Von Der AHE, who was Max's immigration sponsor and patron. Von der Ahe encouraged Max to learn the spoken and written English language prior to emigration, which he did fluently--and helped facilitate his timely assimilation into St. Louis business and social circles.
Von der Ahe also provided MAX with a job and residence on Kossuth Avenue in North St. Louis City shortly after his arrival at Ellis Island in New York on the "S.S. Doppeldam" from Germany, paying his train fare on the New York Central Railroad to St. Louis. (MAX J. KAISER's name is now inscribed on the "Ellis Island Immigrant Wall of Honor" at the Ellis Island National Museum in New York City).
While in Von der Ahe's employ, MAX served as box office manager for the old Sportsman's Park ballpark at Grand and Dodier Avenues (home of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, which Von der Ahe owned), and did all of Chris' English language correspondence and verbal advice to many of the German-born ballplayers on the Browns' team--many of whom did not speak English well, but German. (Fully one-fourth of the St. Louis Browns were German-born or German-speaking, since German immigrants readily adapted to baseball as an American sporting interest for their immigrant culture and good athletes were actively recruited by fledgling American baseball teams).
MAX learned English prior to his emigration from Germany and spoke and wrote it fluently, unlike Von der Ahe (nicknamed "Der Poss Bresident" by local baseball fans for his heavy accent), who never really learned English well. Von Der Ahe frequently relied on MAX's English/German interpretive skills for management and business correspondence communications and direction with players, suppliers and the public). Irish-American Chicagoan CHARLES COMISKEY managed the Browns baseball team during Von Der Ahe's ownership. (After Von der Ahe's death in 1913, MAX and COMISKEY organized a benefit baseball game with the Browns that liquidated the Von Der Ahe's estate's heavy indebtedness).
Marrying South St. Louisan JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER in 1912 (daughter of South Side contractor FRANK X. LEIBINGER and BARBARA SAUTER LEIBINGER), MAX then worked as a salesman for much of his subsequent professional career until illness forced him to quit. (JOSEPHINE died in childbirth in 1913 with a stillborn daughter. She is buried on her father FRANK X. LEIBINGER's lot also at Old SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery). MAX later remarried her matron of honor and close friend, ROSE CLARA HILDEGARDE SPEH, in the same church as his first marriage, St. Francis DeSales in South St. Louis in October, 1915. The Nuptial Mass was performed by the same priest, Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck, V.G., the pastor and family friend of his father-and-mother-in-law, FRANZ X. and FRANZISKA SPEH. Msgr. GEORGE DREHER,also a family friend and collateral relative, was present.
He and ROSE originally lived in the old Fairgrounds Park Neighborhood (in the old St. Augustine Parish 1873-1974), in a two-family flat at 3315 Natural Bridge Avenue, one block east of North Grand Blvd. Later in 1938, he and his wife, ROSE and brother-in-law ERNEST G. SPEH moved to a brick bungalow at 4941 Finkman Street in the Princeton Heights neighborhood of South St. Louis, in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish (founded in 1907), three blocks south of Kingshighway.
At the time of MAX's death at the family home on Finkman Street in 1947, only sons FRANCIS, LEO and FR. GEROLD were stateside. Youngest son MAX S. KAISER was on duty in the Pacific Theatre in Japan. It took nearly two weeks for chaplains to locate MAX, who flew home for MANY hours over the Pacific from Tokyo and Honolulu to reach St. Louis the day prior to MAX J. KAISER's legally required burial.
Thanks to the initiative of U.S. Army Chaplain FR. JERRY KAISER and his brothers, young MAX got to see his father laid to rest (a favor he NEVER forgot!) through the Kriegshauser South Mortuary of St. Louis. An earlier funeral Mass presided over by Joseph Cardinal Ritter had been celebrated at Our Lady of Sorrows Church on South Kingshighway and Rhodes Avenue, and MAX's son MSGR. GEROLD J. KAISER officiated at a private Family Mass in the old chapel (now demolished) of Old SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, after which he was buried on the F.X. SPEH Family Lot. MAX J. KAISER's stillborn daughter MARIA (with second wife ROSE) rests in the same grave as himself. (ROSE was buried next to MAX on her father and mother's lot in 1969).
(PHOTOS)
PHOTO ONE:
MAX J. KAISER (age 18) shortly after emigration thru Ellis Island from Germany age 18 (c.1897)
PHOTO TWO:
MAX J. and ROSE C.(SPEH) KAISER wedding photo after their nuptial Mass at St. Francis DeSales Church.(Rose was Max's second wife and mother of four sons, Msgr. Gerold, Leo M., Francis X.Sr. and Max S.Sr. A stillborn daughter,Maria,was born between Leo and Francis). (Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck officiated at their wedding; Msgr. George Dreher was present in the sanctuary at the Nuptial Mass).
MAX emigrated to the United States in October,1896 at the age of 17 with his parents, J. MAXIMILIAN and CRESZENTIA F. KAISER from Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, where they settled in St. Louis at the request of his brother-in-law, CHRIS F.W. Von Der AHE, who was Max's immigration sponsor and patron. Von der Ahe encouraged Max to learn the spoken and written English language prior to emigration, which he did fluently--and helped facilitate his timely assimilation into St. Louis business and social circles.
Von der Ahe also provided MAX with a job and residence on Kossuth Avenue in North St. Louis City shortly after his arrival at Ellis Island in New York on the "S.S. Doppeldam" from Germany, paying his train fare on the New York Central Railroad to St. Louis. (MAX J. KAISER's name is now inscribed on the "Ellis Island Immigrant Wall of Honor" at the Ellis Island National Museum in New York City).
While in Von der Ahe's employ, MAX served as box office manager for the old Sportsman's Park ballpark at Grand and Dodier Avenues (home of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, which Von der Ahe owned), and did all of Chris' English language correspondence and verbal advice to many of the German-born ballplayers on the Browns' team--many of whom did not speak English well, but German. (Fully one-fourth of the St. Louis Browns were German-born or German-speaking, since German immigrants readily adapted to baseball as an American sporting interest for their immigrant culture and good athletes were actively recruited by fledgling American baseball teams).
MAX learned English prior to his emigration from Germany and spoke and wrote it fluently, unlike Von der Ahe (nicknamed "Der Poss Bresident" by local baseball fans for his heavy accent), who never really learned English well. Von Der Ahe frequently relied on MAX's English/German interpretive skills for management and business correspondence communications and direction with players, suppliers and the public). Irish-American Chicagoan CHARLES COMISKEY managed the Browns baseball team during Von Der Ahe's ownership. (After Von der Ahe's death in 1913, MAX and COMISKEY organized a benefit baseball game with the Browns that liquidated the Von Der Ahe's estate's heavy indebtedness).
Marrying South St. Louisan JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER in 1912 (daughter of South Side contractor FRANK X. LEIBINGER and BARBARA SAUTER LEIBINGER), MAX then worked as a salesman for much of his subsequent professional career until illness forced him to quit. (JOSEPHINE died in childbirth in 1913 with a stillborn daughter. She is buried on her father FRANK X. LEIBINGER's lot also at Old SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery). MAX later remarried her matron of honor and close friend, ROSE CLARA HILDEGARDE SPEH, in the same church as his first marriage, St. Francis DeSales in South St. Louis in October, 1915. The Nuptial Mass was performed by the same priest, Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck, V.G., the pastor and family friend of his father-and-mother-in-law, FRANZ X. and FRANZISKA SPEH. Msgr. GEORGE DREHER,also a family friend and collateral relative, was present.
He and ROSE originally lived in the old Fairgrounds Park Neighborhood (in the old St. Augustine Parish 1873-1974), in a two-family flat at 3315 Natural Bridge Avenue, one block east of North Grand Blvd. Later in 1938, he and his wife, ROSE and brother-in-law ERNEST G. SPEH moved to a brick bungalow at 4941 Finkman Street in the Princeton Heights neighborhood of South St. Louis, in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish (founded in 1907), three blocks south of Kingshighway.
At the time of MAX's death at the family home on Finkman Street in 1947, only sons FRANCIS, LEO and FR. GEROLD were stateside. Youngest son MAX S. KAISER was on duty in the Pacific Theatre in Japan. It took nearly two weeks for chaplains to locate MAX, who flew home for MANY hours over the Pacific from Tokyo and Honolulu to reach St. Louis the day prior to MAX J. KAISER's legally required burial.
Thanks to the initiative of U.S. Army Chaplain FR. JERRY KAISER and his brothers, young MAX got to see his father laid to rest (a favor he NEVER forgot!) through the Kriegshauser South Mortuary of St. Louis. An earlier funeral Mass presided over by Joseph Cardinal Ritter had been celebrated at Our Lady of Sorrows Church on South Kingshighway and Rhodes Avenue, and MAX's son MSGR. GEROLD J. KAISER officiated at a private Family Mass in the old chapel (now demolished) of Old SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, after which he was buried on the F.X. SPEH Family Lot. MAX J. KAISER's stillborn daughter MARIA (with second wife ROSE) rests in the same grave as himself. (ROSE was buried next to MAX on her father and mother's lot in 1969).
(PHOTOS)
PHOTO ONE:
MAX J. KAISER (age 18) shortly after emigration thru Ellis Island from Germany age 18 (c.1897)
PHOTO TWO:
MAX J. and ROSE C.(SPEH) KAISER wedding photo after their nuptial Mass at St. Francis DeSales Church.(Rose was Max's second wife and mother of four sons, Msgr. Gerold, Leo M., Francis X.Sr. and Max S.Sr. A stillborn daughter,Maria,was born between Leo and Francis). (Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck officiated at their wedding; Msgr. George Dreher was present in the sanctuary at the Nuptial Mass).
MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER, age 69, died at his home of natural causes in South St. Louis in the presence of his wife ROSE in March, 1947. He was the father of four sons, and a stillborn daughter, Maria. MAX's ancestral first and middle names honored King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (a member of the Hapsburg--Wittelsbach royal dynasty), where a number of MAX's ancestors lived. His first name dates back more than 250 years in the family history to Germany.
MAX emigrated to the United States in October,1896 at the age of 17 with his parents, J. MAXIMILIAN and CRESZENTIA F. KAISER from Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, where they settled in St. Louis at the request of his brother-in-law, CHRIS F.W. Von Der AHE, who was Max's immigration sponsor and patron. Von der Ahe encouraged Max to learn the spoken and written English language prior to emigration, which he did fluently--and helped facilitate his timely assimilation into St. Louis business and social circles.
Von der Ahe also provided MAX with a job and residence on Kossuth Avenue in North St. Louis City shortly after his arrival at Ellis Island in New York on the "S.S. Doppeldam" from Germany, paying his train fare on the New York Central Railroad to St. Louis. (MAX J. KAISER's name is now inscribed on the "Ellis Island Immigrant Wall of Honor" at the Ellis Island National Museum in New York City).
While in Von der Ahe's employ, MAX served as box office manager for the old Sportsman's Park ballpark at Grand and Dodier Avenues (home of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, which Von der Ahe owned), and did all of Chris' English language correspondence and verbal advice to many of the German-born ballplayers on the Browns' team--many of whom did not speak English well, but German. (Fully one-fourth of the St. Louis Browns were German-born or German-speaking, since German immigrants readily adapted to baseball as an American sporting interest for their immigrant culture and good athletes were actively recruited by fledgling American baseball teams).
MAX learned English prior to his emigration from Germany and spoke and wrote it fluently, unlike Von der Ahe (nicknamed "Der Poss Bresident" by local baseball fans for his heavy accent), who never really learned English well. Von Der Ahe frequently relied on MAX's English/German interpretive skills for management and business correspondence communications and direction with players, suppliers and the public). Irish-American Chicagoan CHARLES COMISKEY managed the Browns baseball team during Von Der Ahe's ownership. (After Von der Ahe's death in 1913, MAX and COMISKEY organized a benefit baseball game with the Browns that liquidated the Von Der Ahe's estate's heavy indebtedness).
Marrying South St. Louisan JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER in 1912 (daughter of South Side contractor FRANK X. LEIBINGER and BARBARA SAUTER LEIBINGER), MAX then worked as a salesman for much of his subsequent professional career until illness forced him to quit. (JOSEPHINE died in childbirth in 1913 with a stillborn daughter. She is buried on her father FRANK X. LEIBINGER's lot also at Old SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery). MAX later remarried her matron of honor and close friend, ROSE CLARA HILDEGARDE SPEH, in the same church as his first marriage, St. Francis DeSales in South St. Louis in October, 1915. The Nuptial Mass was performed by the same priest, Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck, V.G., the pastor and family friend of his father-and-mother-in-law, FRANZ X. and FRANZISKA SPEH. Msgr. GEORGE DREHER,also a family friend and collateral relative, was present.
He and ROSE originally lived in the old Fairgrounds Park Neighborhood (in the old St. Augustine Parish 1873-1974), in a two-family flat at 3315 Natural Bridge Avenue, one block east of North Grand Blvd. Later in 1938, he and his wife, ROSE and brother-in-law ERNEST G. SPEH moved to a brick bungalow at 4941 Finkman Street in the Princeton Heights neighborhood of South St. Louis, in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish (founded in 1907), three blocks south of Kingshighway.
At the time of MAX's death at the family home on Finkman Street in 1947, only sons FRANCIS, LEO and FR. GEROLD were stateside. Youngest son MAX S. KAISER was on duty in the Pacific Theatre in Japan. It took nearly two weeks for chaplains to locate MAX, who flew home for MANY hours over the Pacific from Tokyo and Honolulu to reach St. Louis the day prior to MAX J. KAISER's legally required burial.
Thanks to the initiative of U.S. Army Chaplain FR. JERRY KAISER and his brothers, young MAX got to see his father laid to rest (a favor he NEVER forgot!) through the Kriegshauser South Mortuary of St. Louis. An earlier funeral Mass presided over by Joseph Cardinal Ritter had been celebrated at Our Lady of Sorrows Church on South Kingshighway and Rhodes Avenue, and MAX's son MSGR. GEROLD J. KAISER officiated at a private Family Mass in the old chapel (now demolished) of Old SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, after which he was buried on the F.X. SPEH Family Lot. MAX J. KAISER's stillborn daughter MARIA (with second wife ROSE) rests in the same grave as himself. (ROSE was buried next to MAX on her father and mother's lot in 1969).
(PHOTOS)
PHOTO ONE:
MAX J. KAISER (age 18) shortly after emigration thru Ellis Island from Germany age 18 (c.1897)
PHOTO TWO:
MAX J. and ROSE C.(SPEH) KAISER wedding photo after their nuptial Mass at St. Francis DeSales Church.(Rose was Max's second wife and mother of four sons, Msgr. Gerold, Leo M., Francis X.Sr. and Max S.Sr. A stillborn daughter,Maria,was born between Leo and Francis). (Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck officiated at their wedding; Msgr. George Dreher was present in the sanctuary at the Nuptial Mass).
MAX emigrated to the United States in October,1896 at the age of 17 with his parents, J. MAXIMILIAN and CRESZENTIA F. KAISER from Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, where they settled in St. Louis at the request of his brother-in-law, CHRIS F.W. Von Der AHE, who was Max's immigration sponsor and patron. Von der Ahe encouraged Max to learn the spoken and written English language prior to emigration, which he did fluently--and helped facilitate his timely assimilation into St. Louis business and social circles.
Von der Ahe also provided MAX with a job and residence on Kossuth Avenue in North St. Louis City shortly after his arrival at Ellis Island in New York on the "S.S. Doppeldam" from Germany, paying his train fare on the New York Central Railroad to St. Louis. (MAX J. KAISER's name is now inscribed on the "Ellis Island Immigrant Wall of Honor" at the Ellis Island National Museum in New York City).
While in Von der Ahe's employ, MAX served as box office manager for the old Sportsman's Park ballpark at Grand and Dodier Avenues (home of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, which Von der Ahe owned), and did all of Chris' English language correspondence and verbal advice to many of the German-born ballplayers on the Browns' team--many of whom did not speak English well, but German. (Fully one-fourth of the St. Louis Browns were German-born or German-speaking, since German immigrants readily adapted to baseball as an American sporting interest for their immigrant culture and good athletes were actively recruited by fledgling American baseball teams).
MAX learned English prior to his emigration from Germany and spoke and wrote it fluently, unlike Von der Ahe (nicknamed "Der Poss Bresident" by local baseball fans for his heavy accent), who never really learned English well. Von Der Ahe frequently relied on MAX's English/German interpretive skills for management and business correspondence communications and direction with players, suppliers and the public). Irish-American Chicagoan CHARLES COMISKEY managed the Browns baseball team during Von Der Ahe's ownership. (After Von der Ahe's death in 1913, MAX and COMISKEY organized a benefit baseball game with the Browns that liquidated the Von Der Ahe's estate's heavy indebtedness).
Marrying South St. Louisan JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER in 1912 (daughter of South Side contractor FRANK X. LEIBINGER and BARBARA SAUTER LEIBINGER), MAX then worked as a salesman for much of his subsequent professional career until illness forced him to quit. (JOSEPHINE died in childbirth in 1913 with a stillborn daughter. She is buried on her father FRANK X. LEIBINGER's lot also at Old SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery). MAX later remarried her matron of honor and close friend, ROSE CLARA HILDEGARDE SPEH, in the same church as his first marriage, St. Francis DeSales in South St. Louis in October, 1915. The Nuptial Mass was performed by the same priest, Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck, V.G., the pastor and family friend of his father-and-mother-in-law, FRANZ X. and FRANZISKA SPEH. Msgr. GEORGE DREHER,also a family friend and collateral relative, was present.
He and ROSE originally lived in the old Fairgrounds Park Neighborhood (in the old St. Augustine Parish 1873-1974), in a two-family flat at 3315 Natural Bridge Avenue, one block east of North Grand Blvd. Later in 1938, he and his wife, ROSE and brother-in-law ERNEST G. SPEH moved to a brick bungalow at 4941 Finkman Street in the Princeton Heights neighborhood of South St. Louis, in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish (founded in 1907), three blocks south of Kingshighway.
At the time of MAX's death at the family home on Finkman Street in 1947, only sons FRANCIS, LEO and FR. GEROLD were stateside. Youngest son MAX S. KAISER was on duty in the Pacific Theatre in Japan. It took nearly two weeks for chaplains to locate MAX, who flew home for MANY hours over the Pacific from Tokyo and Honolulu to reach St. Louis the day prior to MAX J. KAISER's legally required burial.
Thanks to the initiative of U.S. Army Chaplain FR. JERRY KAISER and his brothers, young MAX got to see his father laid to rest (a favor he NEVER forgot!) through the Kriegshauser South Mortuary of St. Louis. An earlier funeral Mass presided over by Joseph Cardinal Ritter had been celebrated at Our Lady of Sorrows Church on South Kingshighway and Rhodes Avenue, and MAX's son MSGR. GEROLD J. KAISER officiated at a private Family Mass in the old chapel (now demolished) of Old SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, after which he was buried on the F.X. SPEH Family Lot. MAX J. KAISER's stillborn daughter MARIA (with second wife ROSE) rests in the same grave as himself. (ROSE was buried next to MAX on her father and mother's lot in 1969).
(PHOTOS)
PHOTO ONE:
MAX J. KAISER (age 18) shortly after emigration thru Ellis Island from Germany age 18 (c.1897)
PHOTO TWO:
MAX J. and ROSE C.(SPEH) KAISER wedding photo after their nuptial Mass at St. Francis DeSales Church.(Rose was Max's second wife and mother of four sons, Msgr. Gerold, Leo M., Francis X.Sr. and Max S.Sr. A stillborn daughter,Maria,was born between Leo and Francis). (Msgr. Frederick G. Holweck officiated at their wedding; Msgr. George Dreher was present in the sanctuary at the Nuptial Mass).
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