Henry W. Dassler
Henry W. Dassler was born on 23 March 1860, the son of William Dassler and Agnes Giles. The census of 1930 gives both his parents as born in Germany. He was born in New Rochelle, in Westchester County, and lived there his whole life. He had a brother, Samuel. By trade he was a carpenter and builder.
On 9 August 1881, at Newark, New Jersey, he married Amalie Röber, who was twenty-two. She had been born in New York City, the daughter of August Roeber and his wife Emelia. In later records she is Amelia, Emelie and Emelia. They made their home in New Rochelle, where Henry owned property assessed in 1890, and they raised a large family. The censuses of 1900 to 1920 name the children Hulda, Alberta, Amelia, Richard, Lydia, Dorothy, Clifford, Condit, Wanda, Beatrice and Henry Jr. Beatrice was born on 3 May 1899.
Henry was a Democrat and a public man in New Rochelle. In March 1898 the town Democrats nominated him for assessor. He sat on the last Village Board of Assessment, and in April 1899, when New Rochelle held its first elections under its new city charter, he ran for city assessor on the ticket of Mayor Michael J. Dillon and was elected with Augustine Smith and Peter B. Brady, a member of the first city board. His brother Samuel was the city's first assessor. In October 1901 the Democrats renominated him at the convention that renominated Mayor Dillon. When his father died, on Sunday, 30 September 1900, the New-York Tribune called the old man "the father of Assessor Henry W. Dassler."
He was an active member of the Volunteer Firemen's Association. In December 1922 the Huguenot Council of the Royal Arcanum, a fraternal insurance society, elected him its regent, the council's presiding officer.
In 1930 he was seventy and the head of a household in New Rochelle. Emelia was with him, and so were their daughter Beatrice Dalrymple and two of her girls, Joan, five, and Joy, two, along with his daughter Wanda and her husband William Peterson and their son Richard, and a Henry Dassler of fifteen and a Frances Dassler of nine. By 1935 Henry and Emelia were living at 27 Holly Place in Larchmont, and Emelia died there on 28 October of that year after a short illness. Henry was back in New Rochelle by 1940, in the third ward. When the city marked its 250th anniversary in 1938 he was feted as one of its oldest native residents.
He lived at the end at 286 Fifth Avenue, New Rochelle. On a Saturday evening in January 1941, very probably the 25th, he was taken into New Rochelle Hospital and died there at 8:05, four hours after he was admitted. He was eighty. Nine of his children survived him, among them Beatrice, as Mrs. Fitzwilliam Dalrymple, with seventeen grandchildren. Nearly a hundred friends and relatives came to his funeral at the George T. Davis Memorial, 14 LeCount Place, where the Rev. Harold R. Brennan, minister of St. John's Methodist Church, officiated, and he was buried in the family plot in Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle.
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Cite: Heirology, "Henry W. Dassler (1860-1941)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/henry-w-dassler-1860-1941-eb256d.