Discovery Notebook

Cooper Union

Edward Lawrence Rehm, born in 1884, the youngest of the Rehm children, was by all evidence an…

Later years

The changing neighborhood in the garment district came to Matthew Rehm’s door when the building…

Roots of the garment industry

Matthew the apprentice German tailor arrived into a chaotically growing New York garment…

Passage to America

I have identified the ship manifest documenting Mathew’s arrival in New York aboard the SS…

Rehm legacy in Lottstetten

The Rehm family continues to own and manage REHM Kies- & Betonwerk (Gravel and Concrete…

Historical roots

Beginning on a geological time scale, receding glaciers from the last ice age—the Würmian,…