BENJAMIN HART NEW YORK- PARIS-HART MILLIONS

[Maxjak]

Carl Christian Schurz (German: [ˈkaʁl ˈʃʊʁts]; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–49 and became a prominent member of the Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.

Born in Prussia's Rhine Province, Schurz fought for democratic reforms in the German revolutions of 1848–49. He escaped to France after Prussia suppressed the revolution and migrated to London when police forced him to leave France. Like many other "Forty-Eighters," he then migrated to the United States, settling in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1852. After being admitted to the Wisconsin bar, he established a legal practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also became an advocate for the anti-slavery movement and joined the Republican Party, unsuccessfully running for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. After briefly representing the United States in Spain, Schurz served as a general in American Civil War, fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg and other major battles.

After the war, Schurz established a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri and won election to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first German-born American elected to that body.[1] Breaking with Republican President Ulysses S. Grant, Schurz helped establish the Liberal Republican Party. The party advocated civil service reform and opposed Grant's efforts to protect African American civil rights in the Southern United States during Reconstruction. Schurz chaired the 1872 Liberal Republican convention, which nominated a ticket that unsuccessfully challenged Grant in the 1872 presidential election. Schurz lost his own 1874 re-election bid and resumed his career as a newspaper editor.

After Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 presidential election, he appointed Schurz as his Secretary of the Interior. Schurz sought to make civil service hires based on merit rather than political connections and helped prevent the transfer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the War Department. Schurz moved to New York City after Hayes left office in 1881 and briefly served as the editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, and later became the editorial writer for Harper's Weekly. He remained active in politics and led the Mugwump movement, which opposed James G. Blaine in the 1884 presidential election. Schurz opposed William Jennings Bryan's bimetallism in the 1896 presidential election but supported Bryan's anti-imperalist campaign in the 1900 presidential election. Schurz died in New York City in 1906.

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Marie Leroy was married with the son of Carl Shurz who died 2 yeasr after, but as she was the only heiress of this family, she was copyright holder of a book of memoirs by Carl Schurz.
Bernard Hart (born in France in 1904) emigrated to USA in 1920 (6 years after Marie Leroy married Michael Hart). He stay near his mother with Michael Hart during 2 years, then with Carl Shurz son's (2 years also..) and then Marie Leroy married Mr Macedo in Brazil, and Bernard was also in Brazil as he married Elisabeth Schmidt in 1926... Unfortunately he died in 1933.. in Rio de Janeiro.
Marie Leroy, which had a rich and full life, decided after the death of Bernard to live between Rio de Janeiro and Lausanne ...

Hope all above will help you

Many thanks for this update which is the first from any of my USA Hart relatives. I would appreciate it if you could explain more who Carl Shurz was. Is Bernard Shurz your great grandfather or is he another person? Did Michael Hart then name Bernard Shurz, Bernard Hart? Are these people American or from another country?

What happened to Bernard?

Do you have any more information on Michael Hart and the Hart family?
Many thanks again for posting

Phillip

[phillip]

Maxjak
Many thanks again for the data. I am still unclear who the son of Carl was. Is he Paul who is with Marie in the 1930 Census? Have I got the wrong couple?
What more do you know about the Hart lines ( I know that they are a main surname for your research based on your profile)?

Do you know what happened to Michael Hart post his divorce?

Phillip

[phillip]

Maxjak
The Ancestry.Com Family trees have 2 sons for Carl SCHURZ 1829-1906- Carl Lincoln Schurz 1871- 1924 b Washington DC and died Bayern Germany married Harriet TIEDMANN. The 2nd son is Herbert SCHURZ 1876-1900 b New York died London no record of his wife.

Did Herbert marry Marie Leroy and if so, is there a record of the marriage?

Phillip

[phillip]

The Ancestry.Com family trees have failed to note that Carl aka Karl Lincoln Schurz was married to Marie.I have read the Report of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad for Carl ( he is recorded as Karl) Lincoln SCHURZ b Feb 28 1871-death May 19 1924 at 2.30pm Sanitorium Groedel Bad Nauheim Germany- Heart Disease. Remains to be sent to New York on "SS Mount Clay" from Hamburg 27 May 1924. Effects in the hands of the deceased sister Miss Marianne Schurz whoewill deliver them to the wife of the deceased Mrs Karl ( MARIE) SCHURZ 993 Park Avenue New York City.

Max when and where did Marie marry Carl Lincoln Schurz and when/where did she die?


I will trace Marie post 1924

Phillip

[phillip]

Two initial marriages of Marie Leroy- Michael HART 16 Dec 1914 Manhattan NY; Carl Lincoln SCHURZ 2 August 1922 Manhattan NY

Who was the father of Bernard b 1904 France?

Phillip