In Memoriam
FERDINAND A. J. MEYER was born April 14, 1848, in the little village of Zwischenahn in the Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg, the son of B. H. Meyer and his wife Friederike, née Kuehl. In Zwischenahn, the home of his parents, their graves, the church bells, the chandelier and the interior restoration of the seven-centuries-old house of worship tell the story of his filial affection for the place of his birth and youth.
When about twenty years old he immigrated to America and made Baltimore his home. Here he entered upon a successful career as a business man. He found employment with the house of Goldsborough, Pitts & Co. Eventually, he became the head of the firm, then known as Meyer, Pitts & Co. He remained in active connection with his business to the end of his life. He died at the age of eighty-five years on November 27, 1933, at the Union Memorial Hospital. His earthly form was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Meyer was tall and erect in his bearing, almost soldierly; of quiet demeanor, courteous and attentive to all, quick to perceive intent and point of the many who sought something or other from him. A keen kenner of men with a knowledge born of the gathered experience of years, many of which were spent as a traveller in his line through the South Atlantic Seaboard, with days of sojourn in towns, large and small, and the various folks met in business and hotels along the way.
Mr. Meyer's estate aggregated nearly three million dollars. To the German Orphan Home he gave $100,000; to Zion Church and to the German Aged Home he gave each $50,000; to the German Society of Maryland $20,000, and to our Historical Society $10,000. Though he had through his long life generously taken care of his relatives in Germany, and had again richly provided for them after his death, they challenged his intent by a threat of contest of his testamentary capacity, so forcing a compromise, by which all organizations not mentioned in a prior will, or receiving a larger bequest under his last will, were constrained to give up to them a considerable percentage of their bequest.
Always charitable in an unostentatious way and manner, his Last Will and Testament revealed him as a man of widest charitable interests. Agencies and institutions for the care of the sick the poor, the orphaned, the aged, the crippled, as well as others devoted to cultural spheres, became beneficiaries of his generosity, and neither creed nor race were barriers to his truly humanitarian inclinations.
For years Mr. Meyer took an active interest in the work of the German Orphan Home at Catonsville, giving a cottage and also providing other evidences of his good will. He was a Director of the German Society of Maryland and other charitable organizations.
Mr. R. Walter Graham, Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, the friend and business associate of Ferdinand Meyer for fifty years, gave a memorial window to Zion Church [in Baltimore], of which Mr. Meyer was a member for some forty years, as a tribute to a man whose presence was an inspiration and whose memory remains a blessing to untold numbers.
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FERDINAND A. J. MEYER was born April 14, 1848, in the little village of Zwischenahn in the Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg, the son of B. H. Meyer and his wife Friederike, née Kuehl. In Zwischenahn, the home of his parents, their graves, the church bells, the chandelier and the interior restoration of the seven-centuries-old house of worship tell the story of his filial affection for the place of his birth and youth.
When about twenty years old he immigrated to America and made Baltimore his home. Here he entered upon a successful career as a business man. He found employment with the house of Goldsborough, Pitts & Co. Eventually, he became the head of the firm, then known as Meyer, Pitts & Co. He remained in active connection with his business to the end of his life. He died at the age of eighty-five years on November 27, 1933, at the Union Memorial Hospital. His earthly form was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Meyer was tall and erect in his bearing, almost soldierly; of quiet demeanor, courteous and attentive to all, quick to perceive intent and point of the many who sought something or other from him. A keen kenner of men with a knowledge born of the gathered experience of years, many of which were spent as a traveller in his line through the South Atlantic Seaboard, with days of sojourn in towns, large and small, and the various folks met in business and hotels along the way.
Mr. Meyer's estate aggregated nearly three million dollars. To the German Orphan Home he gave $100,000; to Zion Church and to the German Aged Home he gave each $50,000; to the German Society of Maryland $20,000, and to our Historical Society $10,000. Though he had through his long life generously taken care of his relatives in Germany, and had again richly provided for them after his death, they challenged his intent by a threat of contest of his testamentary capacity, so forcing a compromise, by which all organizations not mentioned in a prior will, or receiving a larger bequest under his last will, were constrained to give up to them a considerable percentage of their bequest.
Always charitable in an unostentatious way and manner, his Last Will and Testament revealed him as a man of widest charitable interests. Agencies and institutions for the care of the sick the poor, the orphaned, the aged, the crippled, as well as others devoted to cultural spheres, became beneficiaries of his generosity, and neither creed nor race were barriers to his truly humanitarian inclinations.
For years Mr. Meyer took an active interest in the work of the German Orphan Home at Catonsville, giving a cottage and also providing other evidences of his good will. He was a Director of the German Society of Maryland and other charitable organizations.
Mr. R. Walter Graham, Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, the friend and business associate of Ferdinand Meyer for fifty years, gave a memorial window to Zion Church [in Baltimore], of which Mr. Meyer was a member for some forty years, as a tribute to a man whose presence was an inspiration and whose memory remains a blessing to untold numbers.
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In Memoriam
FERDINAND A. J. MEYER was born April 14, 1848, in the little village of Zwischenahn in the Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg, the son of B. H. Meyer and his wife Friederike, née Kuehl. In Zwischenahn, the home of his parents, their graves, the church bells, the chandelier and the interior restoration of the seven-centuries-old house of worship tell the story of his filial affection for the place of his birth and youth.
When about twenty years old he immigrated to America and made Baltimore his home. Here he entered upon a successful career as a business man. He found employment with the house of Goldsborough, Pitts & Co. Eventually, he became the head of the firm, then known as Meyer, Pitts & Co. He remained in active connection with his business to the end of his life. He died at the age of eighty-five years on November 27, 1933, at the Union Memorial Hospital. His earthly form was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Meyer was tall and erect in his bearing, almost soldierly; of quiet demeanor, courteous and attentive to all, quick to perceive intent and point of the many who sought something or other from him. A keen kenner of men with a knowledge born of the gathered experience of years, many of which were spent as a traveller in his line through the South Atlantic Seaboard, with days of sojourn in towns, large and small, and the various folks met in business and hotels along the way.
Mr. Meyer's estate aggregated nearly three million dollars. To the German Orphan Home he gave $100,000; to Zion Church and to the German Aged Home he gave each $50,000; to the German Society of Maryland $20,000, and to our Historical Society $10,000. Though he had through his long life generously taken care of his relatives in Germany, and had again richly provided for them after his death, they challenged his intent by a threat of contest of his testamentary capacity, so forcing a compromise, by which all organizations not mentioned in a prior will, or receiving a larger bequest under his last will, were constrained to give up to them a considerable percentage of their bequest.
Always charitable in an unostentatious way and manner, his Last Will and Testament revealed him as a man of widest charitable interests. Agencies and institutions for the care of the sick the poor, the orphaned, the aged, the crippled, as well as others devoted to cultural spheres, became beneficiaries of his generosity, and neither creed nor race were barriers to his truly humanitarian inclinations.
For years Mr. Meyer took an active interest in the work of the German Orphan Home at Catonsville, giving a cottage and also providing other evidences of his good will. He was a Director of the German Society of Maryland and other charitable organizations.
Mr. R. Walter Graham, Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, the friend and business associate of Ferdinand Meyer for fifty years, gave a memorial window to Zion Church [in Baltimore], of which Mr. Meyer was a member for some forty years, as a tribute to a man whose presence was an inspiration and whose memory remains a blessing to untold numbers.
loyolanotredamelib.org/php/report05/.../Report24Memoriamp50-65.pdf
FERDINAND A. J. MEYER was born April 14, 1848, in the little village of Zwischenahn in the Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg, the son of B. H. Meyer and his wife Friederike, née Kuehl. In Zwischenahn, the home of his parents, their graves, the church bells, the chandelier and the interior restoration of the seven-centuries-old house of worship tell the story of his filial affection for the place of his birth and youth.
When about twenty years old he immigrated to America and made Baltimore his home. Here he entered upon a successful career as a business man. He found employment with the house of Goldsborough, Pitts & Co. Eventually, he became the head of the firm, then known as Meyer, Pitts & Co. He remained in active connection with his business to the end of his life. He died at the age of eighty-five years on November 27, 1933, at the Union Memorial Hospital. His earthly form was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Meyer was tall and erect in his bearing, almost soldierly; of quiet demeanor, courteous and attentive to all, quick to perceive intent and point of the many who sought something or other from him. A keen kenner of men with a knowledge born of the gathered experience of years, many of which were spent as a traveller in his line through the South Atlantic Seaboard, with days of sojourn in towns, large and small, and the various folks met in business and hotels along the way.
Mr. Meyer's estate aggregated nearly three million dollars. To the German Orphan Home he gave $100,000; to Zion Church and to the German Aged Home he gave each $50,000; to the German Society of Maryland $20,000, and to our Historical Society $10,000. Though he had through his long life generously taken care of his relatives in Germany, and had again richly provided for them after his death, they challenged his intent by a threat of contest of his testamentary capacity, so forcing a compromise, by which all organizations not mentioned in a prior will, or receiving a larger bequest under his last will, were constrained to give up to them a considerable percentage of their bequest.
Always charitable in an unostentatious way and manner, his Last Will and Testament revealed him as a man of widest charitable interests. Agencies and institutions for the care of the sick the poor, the orphaned, the aged, the crippled, as well as others devoted to cultural spheres, became beneficiaries of his generosity, and neither creed nor race were barriers to his truly humanitarian inclinations.
For years Mr. Meyer took an active interest in the work of the German Orphan Home at Catonsville, giving a cottage and also providing other evidences of his good will. He was a Director of the German Society of Maryland and other charitable organizations.
Mr. R. Walter Graham, Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, the friend and business associate of Ferdinand Meyer for fifty years, gave a memorial window to Zion Church [in Baltimore], of which Mr. Meyer was a member for some forty years, as a tribute to a man whose presence was an inspiration and whose memory remains a blessing to untold numbers.
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