. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . REV. F. W. GEISSENHAINER—CHURCHES OF NEWTOWN. 397 prices as to render them obtainable by people of limitedmeans, who were often taxed far beyond their ability topay by the managers of other cemeteries. So entirelyfeasible was Dr. Geissenhainers plan, and so good hismanagement of the affairs of the cemetery (now in thehands of his son F. W. Geissenhainer, the present treas-urer), that the annual interments in the Lutheran Ceme-tery outnumber those in any other Protestant cemet
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . REV. F. W. GEISSENHAINER—CHURCHES OF NEWTOWN. 397 prices as to render them obtainable by people of limitedmeans, who were often taxed far beyond their ability topay by the managers of other cemeteries. So entirelyfeasible was Dr. Geissenhainers plan, and so good hismanagement of the affairs of the cemetery (now in thehands of his son F. W. Geissenhainer, the present treas-urer), that the annual interments in the Lutheran Ceme-tery outnumber those in any other Protestant cemeteryin the United States. This cemetery was opened inJ850 and incorporated March 22nd 1852. Dr. Geissenhainer married Mary, daughter of BoltisMoore, of New York city, September 6th 1824. Threeof their children—Frederick W., Mary L. (now ) and Jacob A.—are living. Boltis, another son,died at the age of two years, in 1827. A portrait of Dr. Geissenhainer accompanies this ar-ticle. He was of about tlie medium height, sparelymade, and even in his old age possessed a great amountof activity. It will be o
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