Musician/N.J. State Assemblyman: Pnilip M. Wolsieffer was a multi-talented person, well versed in business and the arts. While living in Philadelphia, he founded the first singing society in the United States. In 1854 he would be among a group of influential German businessmen (including Dr. William Schmoele who would later sign his death certificate) on their way to Atlantic City. This group of men founded the Gloucester Farm & Town Association to obtain land in the Gloucester Furnace area of Atlantic County from the Colwell & Richards families. The purchase would eventually become Egg Harbor City and parts of Mullica, Hamilton and Galloway Townships. In 1857, he founded the Aurora Singing Society of Egg Harbor City, NJ, the second singing society in the United States. Philip was elected the first mayor of the city by the members of the GFTA, serving in that capacity from 14JUN1858 to 18JAN1860. In addition, he served in the New Jersey State Assembly.
Initially buried in section G, lot 215 of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA. Grave removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA on July 18, 1951.
The Egg Harbor City Historical Society and Saraceno Funeral Home has undertaken a project to obtain a memorial stone for Mayor Wolsieffer and his family. It was placed on 01OCT2011 by his great-granddaughter Helene Young of Cologne, NJ and three more generations of Young descendants. Her late sister was world peace advocate, Peace Pilgrim.
In addition to the children seen below, Philip and Catharine had a son, Philip Mathis Wolsieffer, Jr., born 28MAY1857 in Egg Harbor City, NJ. In 1883, he married his first wife, Katherine Dorothea Messinger (1858-1912). They lived in Chicago where he had a very proseprous stamp business and invented the Approval Card and the Wolsieffer Left Hand Stock Book and othe philatetic supplies.
After Katherine's death, he moved to Philadelphia with his second wife, Antonia Lurch Ervine (1859-1933), where he owned the Philadelphia Stamp Company which he later named the P. M. Wolsieffer Stamp Company. He was a founding member of the American Philatetic Society and served as its president in 1924 & 1925, In 1934 he was admitted to the State Hospital with bronchial pneumonia and died in Norristown on 06OCT1934. In 1941, he was posthumously inducted into the Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.
Initially buried in section G, lot 215 of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA. Grave removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA on July 18, 1951.
The Egg Harbor City Historical Society and Saraceno Funeral Home has undertaken a project to obtain a memorial stone for Mayor Wolsieffer and his family. It was placed on 01OCT2011 by his great-granddaughter Helene Young of Cologne, NJ and three more generations of Young descendants. Her late sister was world peace advocate, Peace Pilgrim.
In addition to the children seen below, Philip and Catharine had a son, Philip Mathis Wolsieffer, Jr., born 28MAY1857 in Egg Harbor City, NJ. In 1883, he married his first wife, Katherine Dorothea Messinger (1858-1912). They lived in Chicago where he had a very proseprous stamp business and invented the Approval Card and the Wolsieffer Left Hand Stock Book and othe philatetic supplies.
After Katherine's death, he moved to Philadelphia with his second wife, Antonia Lurch Ervine (1859-1933), where he owned the Philadelphia Stamp Company which he later named the P. M. Wolsieffer Stamp Company. He was a founding member of the American Philatetic Society and served as its president in 1924 & 1925, In 1934 he was admitted to the State Hospital with bronchial pneumonia and died in Norristown on 06OCT1934. In 1941, he was posthumously inducted into the Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.
Musician/N.J. State Assemblyman: Pnilip M. Wolsieffer was a multi-talented person, well versed in business and the arts. While living in Philadelphia, he founded the first singing society in the United States. In 1854 he would be among a group of influential German businessmen (including Dr. William Schmoele who would later sign his death certificate) on their way to Atlantic City. This group of men founded the Gloucester Farm & Town Association to obtain land in the Gloucester Furnace area of Atlantic County from the Colwell & Richards families. The purchase would eventually become Egg Harbor City and parts of Mullica, Hamilton and Galloway Townships. In 1857, he founded the Aurora Singing Society of Egg Harbor City, NJ, the second singing society in the United States. Philip was elected the first mayor of the city by the members of the GFTA, serving in that capacity from 14JUN1858 to 18JAN1860. In addition, he served in the New Jersey State Assembly.
Initially buried in section G, lot 215 of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA. Grave removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA on July 18, 1951.
The Egg Harbor City Historical Society and Saraceno Funeral Home has undertaken a project to obtain a memorial stone for Mayor Wolsieffer and his family. It was placed on 01OCT2011 by his great-granddaughter Helene Young of Cologne, NJ and three more generations of Young descendants. Her late sister was world peace advocate, Peace Pilgrim.
In addition to the children seen below, Philip and Catharine had a son, Philip Mathis Wolsieffer, Jr., born 28MAY1857 in Egg Harbor City, NJ. In 1883, he married his first wife, Katherine Dorothea Messinger (1858-1912). They lived in Chicago where he had a very proseprous stamp business and invented the Approval Card and the Wolsieffer Left Hand Stock Book and othe philatetic supplies.
After Katherine's death, he moved to Philadelphia with his second wife, Antonia Lurch Ervine (1859-1933), where he owned the Philadelphia Stamp Company which he later named the P. M. Wolsieffer Stamp Company. He was a founding member of the American Philatetic Society and served as its president in 1924 & 1925, In 1934 he was admitted to the State Hospital with bronchial pneumonia and died in Norristown on 06OCT1934. In 1941, he was posthumously inducted into the Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.
Initially buried in section G, lot 215 of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA. Grave removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA on July 18, 1951.
The Egg Harbor City Historical Society and Saraceno Funeral Home has undertaken a project to obtain a memorial stone for Mayor Wolsieffer and his family. It was placed on 01OCT2011 by his great-granddaughter Helene Young of Cologne, NJ and three more generations of Young descendants. Her late sister was world peace advocate, Peace Pilgrim.
In addition to the children seen below, Philip and Catharine had a son, Philip Mathis Wolsieffer, Jr., born 28MAY1857 in Egg Harbor City, NJ. In 1883, he married his first wife, Katherine Dorothea Messinger (1858-1912). They lived in Chicago where he had a very proseprous stamp business and invented the Approval Card and the Wolsieffer Left Hand Stock Book and othe philatetic supplies.
After Katherine's death, he moved to Philadelphia with his second wife, Antonia Lurch Ervine (1859-1933), where he owned the Philadelphia Stamp Company which he later named the P. M. Wolsieffer Stamp Company. He was a founding member of the American Philatetic Society and served as its president in 1924 & 1925, In 1934 he was admitted to the State Hospital with bronchial pneumonia and died in Norristown on 06OCT1934. In 1941, he was posthumously inducted into the Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.
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