Frederick A. Vieser
Frederick A. Vieser
FREDERICK A. VIESER was born in 1855 in Lahr, Baden Germany. He emigrated from his native Germany at the age of 18. He married his wife Louise in 1881. Initially working as a machinist at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, he appears in the 1890 Philadelphia City Directory as a partner, with William Dorner, in Dorner & Vieser, cabinetmakers, at 1207 Cambridge Street. He later came to New Jersey, where he became the president of the Frederick Vieser & Son Company, by the 1930s the only manufacturer in America of print blocks for the printed linoleum industry, at 1222 Kaighn Avenue.
Active in the civic life of the city, Frederick Vieser was involved in the fund raising drive that culminated in the building of the Walt Whitman Hotel at Broadway and Cooper Street. He was an active member of the Camden Rotary Club, serving as the club president from July of 1933 through July of 1934, when he was succeeded by Dr. Leon N. Nuelen.
The Viesers lived at 561 Benson Street from 1910 through 1916.
Frederick A. Vieser passed away on August 21, 1935. The business, operated by his son Frederick C. Vieser, remained in Camden at 1230 Kaighn Avenue into the early 1970s.
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Dr. Neulen Elected Rotary Club Head
Camden Courier-Post —
DR. NEULEN ELECTED ROTARY CLUB HEAD
Annual Meeting Held in Holy Name Church; Hobby Show Discussed
Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of city public schools, will head the Camden Rotary Club for the year starting in July. He was elected president Tuesday night.
Other officers are Trevor B. Matthews, vice president; John H. Booth, secretary; George A. Moore, treasurer, and Samuel P. Riggins, sergeant-at-arms. Three directors elected were Chirtian [sic] E. Ebensperger, George W. Griffiths and George W. A. Kappel.
The club members were the guests of Rev. Thomas J. Whelan, pastor of Holy Name Church, Fifth and Elm streets. There from the stage of the large auditorium the pastor’s greeting to the Rotarians was expressed by a chorus of 50 children, under the direction of Catherine Wallace and Anne McHugh, in song and dance.
J. W. Burnison, plant manager of RCA Victor Company, Inc., and William Major, of Public Service Gas and Electric Company, were received as members by President Fred A. Vieser.
Hubert Scheer, chairman of the boys’ work committee, reported all plans for Camden’s first “hobby” show, sponsored by Rotary, as complete. The event, with more than 1000 entries among the students of Camden schools, opens at Convention Hall next Monday. The exhibit will continue daily from 2 to 10 p. m., including May 12. Fifty members of the club have supervised the set-up of what promises to prove a unique demonstration of the handiwork of Camden youth.
Admission to the exposition, it was announced, will be free to the public.
In officially welcoming his guests Tuesday night, Rev. Whelan threw open the entire parish edifice for the inspection of the Rotarians. He asked them to inspect the result of 21 years of work by the parishioners which had made possible the $225,000 edifice with a membership of more than 500 families, and nearly 700 students in the parochial and Camden Catholic High Schools. Rev. John J. Mellon, pastor of St. Agatha’s Church Philadelphia, was a guest of Rev. Whelan.
Frederick A. Vieser Dies at Shore Home
Camden Courier-Post —
Haddonfield Print Block Maker Stricken at Seaside Heights
Funeral services for Frederick A. Vieser, 80, prominent Camden manufacturer, who died at his Summer home in Seaside Heights Wednesday night, will be held at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow.
Mr. Vieser, who was stricken with a heart attack, made his home at 136 Hopkins avenue, Haddonfield. He was president of Frederick A. Vieser & son Company, 1222 Kaighn avenue, the only firm in the country engaged in the manufacture of print blocks for the printed linoleum industry.
Born in Lahr, Baden, Germany in 1855, Vieser came to this country at the age of 18 and became a machinist at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. Later he founded the Camden concern.
He was a member of the council of Trinity Lutheran Church, Camden, a director of Barnegat Power & Cold Storage Company, Seaside Heights, and was active in welfare work.
He is survived by a son, Frederick C. Vieser, and three daughters, Irma L. Von Bosse, of Philadelphia; Emily Vieser and Freda V. Johnson, of Haddonfield, and seven grandchildren.
Frederick A. Vieser
Camden Courier-Post —
FREDERICK A. VIESER
Funeral services for Mr. Vieser, widely-known Camden manufacturer, who died Wednesday at Seaside Heights from a heart attack, will be held this afternoon from an undertaking establishment at 800 Haddon avenue, Collingswood. Mr. Vieser was 80 years old.