Family life in New York
This was the neighborhood where the Rehm family grew up in the 1870s and 80s, not in Little Germany but in the Tenderloin district, at 242 27th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues (smack in the middle of today’s Fashion Institute of Technology campus) and later also at 346 Ninth Avenue at 29th St.
Their children, in order, were William J. Rehm (1871), Joseph Matthew Rehm (1877), Pauline E. Rehm (1879), and after a five-year gap, Edward Lawrence Rehm (1884). Eliza was 42 when Edward was born.
• William was a barber. He married Caroline Domenshak; they had a son William, a printer, and daughter Elise, a secretary, neither of whom married or produced children. The family lived on W. 18 th Street and then on Jane Street in Greenwich Village, so I imagine William plied his barbering trade in that area.
• Joseph married Evelyn Ward and they had one son, Joseph Jr., who left a large family (see Rehm under Branches). Joseph was the chief clerk of the New York State Workman’s Compensation Board, which was created in the progressive reforms following the 1911 factory fire. Joseph died at 62 in 1944.
• Pauline worked first as a saleslady and later a buyer in dress shops in Manhattan. She did not marry. She moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., In retirement, and lived a very long life, passing in 1976 at age 96.
• Edward married Edna Jacobs and had three children. Their story will be covered below.
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