Month: March 2019

Frederick Waldmann was a saloon-keeper turned theater owner and manager, the business for which he is best known. Waldmann was born in Germany in 1832 and came to the U.S. at age 20 with $35 in his pocket. He knocked around the country a bit before settling in Newark after he was wounded in the Civil War. He both ran…

The father, a brother and a sister of Newark’s great beer baron Gottfried Krueger, along with their spouses, children and other family members, are buried in a family plot that holds 18 bodies. Gottfried himself, of course, is buried in an elaborate mausoleum in Fairmount Cemetery along with some other family members, including his second wife, Mary. It’s not clear…