BUHRMAN OSCAR HERMAN

Male 1871 - 1917  (46 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  BUHRMAN OSCAR HERMAN was born in 1871; died in Dec 1917.

    Notes:

    Oscar was a printer and worked as a compositor on the Nashville Journal for eight years. At the time of his death, he was working in the Forecast Division of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington D. C. Died suddenly of a stroke.

    OSCAR married GREEN MARY REBECCA in 1896. MARY was born in 1869; died in Apr 1936. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. BUHRMAN HUGH GREEN  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1897 in Dob may be 1896; died on 11 Jul 1967.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  BUHRMAN HUGH GREEN Descendancy chart to this point (1.OSCAR1) was born in 1897 in Dob may be 1896; died on 11 Jul 1967.

    Notes:

    Hugh enlisted in the Air Force in 1917 but after three months training at Princeton University, he was honorably discharged due to a lack of higher mathematics. In Dec. of 1917 his father died and he returned to Washington to be with his mother. He worked for the District Government. He graduated in law from the National University in Washington D. C. in 1919.
    In 1918, Hugh was appointed head of the contract dept. of the Emergency Fleet Corp. Shipping Board. Fifter people worked under him. By 1925, there was no more of this type of work. He then went into Real Estate and in later years worked for the Red Cross and in Public Relations in New York City.
    In 1953, Hugh wrote a book "The Four Regional Research Institutes". He had been sent with scientists from these institutes to study industrial problems in Germany in 1950 and in Italy, France and England in 1952. He was in poor health the last years of his life and died in Newton Baker Veterans Center, Martinsburg, W. Va.
    From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1772"
    Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

    HUGH married SCHLADT GERTRUDE on 15 May 1919. GERTRUDE was born in in No children. [Group Sheet]



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