This certificate is a recent addition to my collection. Thank you Brandi! It was found for sale at an antique shop in Nashville and is believed to have been acquired from an estate sale in the area. How this certificate of Ewald Biele, who lived his whole life in New York City, is a bit of a mystery. One theory is that is was passed onto his daughter Edith (1897-1981) who moved from New York City to Daytona Beach, Florida in the late 1920s. In 1938 she married Winder Cowan who was originally from Franklin, TN which is in the Nashville area. It is possible that after his death in 1980 or Edith's death in 1981 that a member of his family in Tennessee took possession of it and brought it back there.
More information on Edith and Winder "Red" Cowan can be found a be found in my August 30, 2015 post.
More information on Ewald can be found at the following webpage.
Below is a copy of the naturalization card for Ewald from the NYC archives. It has the same date as the certificate and includes the address he lived at the time, 218 Rivington in New York City. The Caspar Biele family lived there together when they first emigrated to America. It is in lower Manhattan and in the 1800's was an area of immigrant tenants known as "Little Deutschland". Note that the witness was his brother Charles F. Biele who became a citizen in 1878. His address was 77 Pitt St. which was just around the corner. More information can be found at the following webpage and more or less the same information at this webpage. For more Biele naturalization cards, please see my July 4, 2012 post.
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| Naturalization Card for Ewald Biele. |
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