Gebelein, George Christian (1878-1945)

Name:

Gebelein, George Christian (1878-1945)

Title:

Member, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. Member, Cambridgeport Cycle Club
Member, National Geographic Society
Member, Wellesley Country Club
Member, Republican Club of Massachusetts
Member, Wellesley Hills Skating Club
Member, Wellesley Historical Society

Born:

11/06/1878

Birthplace:

W�stenselbitz, Bavaria

Died:

01/25/1945

Death Location:

Wellesley, MA

Residence:

Germany 1878-1879
Somerville, MA 1879-
Lawrence, MA 1893
Boston, MA 1893-1897, 1902
New York, NY 1897
Newark, NJ 1897-1900
Concord, NH 1900-1902, 1903
Boston, MA 1903-
Wellesley, MA 1918, 1920, 1930, 1940

Nationality:

German

Occupation:

Operative, Washington Mills Company, Lawrence, MA 1893
Silversmith

Father:

Gebelein, Johann Nicolaus (1859-1910)

Mother:

Solger, Margeretha Kunigunde (1858-1944)

Relations:

Journeyman silversmith, George W. Shiebler Company, New York 1897
Journeyman silversmith, Tiffany Co., Forest Hills, NJ 1897-1900
Journeyman silversmith, William B. Durgin Co. Concord, NH 1900-1902, 1903
Silversmith, The Handicraft Shop, 1903-1909

Spouse:

Eva May Pelren (1884-1954), March 30, 1902

Children:

Margaretha P., born 1903; m. __ Leighton; res. Concord, NH
Ernest George, born 1904, Somerville, MA; m. Roberta; res. Dartmouth, MA, Taunton, MA; cotton bag mfg. business)
John Herbert, born 1906; died 1986; b. MA; manager in father's store, took over business after father's death.
Esther M., born 1910
Arthur David, born 1910; died 2001; res. Raynham, MA
Eleanor Eva, born 1915; died 1995; m. Gardiner G. Greene; res. Laconia and Center Harbor, NH.
George Christian, born 1918; died 1967

Notes:

Raechel Guest. "George Christian Gebelein." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified August 28, 2014. http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=123

Wendy Kaplan, 'The Art that is Life': The Arts Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920. (Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 19980, 178-179.

Margaretha Gebelein Leighton, George Christian Gebelein, Boston Silversmith, 1878-1945 (Lunenburg, VT: The Stinehour Press, 1976), 23-24.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA