The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . t Orange, born in the famouscutlei*y manufacturing town of Solingen, in one of the Rhineprovinces of Prussia, October 2, 1854, is the son of PeterDaniel Evertz and Alvena, daughter of Henry and Wilhel- BIOGRAPHIOAL 475 iiiina I SI inclicr) I\(Miiii-I, botli iiuniibers of old (iiiniiui faiii-ilics. His iiKitcnial i;i-anlliilhcr s(i-\i(l in (uic (if thf caiu-paij^ns under Xaiiolcini l>(nia|iarti. (»ii Dccciiihcr 1, 1859,this Napoleonic soldier, with his wife and twn dan<^hters,Alvena and Amelia, sailed from IJrenien for America, butou
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . t Orange, born in the famouscutlei*y manufacturing town of Solingen, in one of the Rhineprovinces of Prussia, October 2, 1854, is the son of PeterDaniel Evertz and Alvena, daughter of Henry and Wilhel- BIOGRAPHIOAL 475 iiiina I SI inclicr) I\(Miiii-I, botli iiuniibers of old (iiiniiui faiii-ilics. His iiKitcnial i;i-anlliilhcr s(i-\i(l in (uic (if thf caiu-paij^ns under Xaiiolcini l>(nia|iarti. (»ii Dccciiihcr 1, 1859,this Napoleonic soldier, with his wife and twn dan<^hters,Alvena and Amelia, sailed from IJrenien for America, butou the third day of the voyaj^c he tiled and liis i-emains wereburied at sea. The Avidow, after lifty-tive days, landed inNew York and went direct to Newark, N. .1., wlience shesubse(|uently remo\edto Kose\iiie. Tile sec-ond daughter, Amelia,was a widow and liadone child, Rosalia. Tin-other daniiliter, .Vivena,and her husband, IeterDaniel Evertz, then hadeiiiht children. Ieter Daniel Evertzsecured eniploynuut with Henry Sauerbeer, aftei-ward workini at. ERNEST C. KVERTZ. his trade for some time in the employ of Jacob Wiss, the founder of the liiin of Jacob Wiss .iv JSous, of Newark. His dilijience and persever- amn, after two years, enabled ^Ir. Evert/, ti. bejiin business on his own account in the manufacliii-e of ciidery hardware, and in this he was very successful, con- tinu(<usly the enterprise until ISCi.), when, on account of failinji health, he was forced to relimpiish it. Within the same year he purchased the homestead in East Oraiiiic, consisting- of a fourteen-acre tract of land, to which he intended to retire with his family; but on the 101 h of ]el)ruary, 180(1, at his home in Newark, he ]iassed away, at the ajic of forty-one, his birth havinu occuri-e<l on the 2d of I^bruary, 1S25. His wife, who was boiai on the ITth of .May, 1S27, died KSeptember 30, 1881. 476 THE PASSAIC VALLEY They had eleven children: Emma, wife of AlexanderKohler, of Newark, by
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