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BIRTH: 28 Sep 1892 NY, NY
BAPTISM:
IMMIGRATION:
DEATH:
BURIAL:
SPOUSE: Jay Hine Lutze
MARRIAGE: abt.1912 Putney, Stratford, CT
SPOUSE: William Weir Davison, b. 03 Dec 1889, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY
MARRIAGE: abt.1921
HAJEK AND HEIG DESCENDANT CHART
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Children
by 1st husband
Anna Margaret Lutze
Marion Janet Lutze
Maybelle Gertrude Lutze
Carolyn McAlpin Lutze
by 2nd husband
William Wier Davison
John Andrew Davison |
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SOURCES
Census
1920 Margaret A. Lutze, Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT, ED305
1930 William Davison [2nd husband of Margaret0, Queens, District 251, Queens
Co., NY, ED406
SSDI
DAVISON, WILLIAM, 041-12-2774 CT, b. 3 Dec 1889, d. 23 Aug 1988 Shelton, CT
Autobiography of Gertrude Lutze, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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BIOGRAPHY
The following is Courtesy of Gertrude Lutze, daughter of Jay and Margaret
Lutze
Margaret Augusta Heig was born September 28, 1892, in Manhattan, New York
City, of an Austrian father and German - American mother. Her father,
Rudolph Heig, was superintendent of the News Boys Home in the Bowery.
The family lived in separate quarters in the Home. The Heig children
received their education from a private teacher who taught them in a
separate section of the school room of the Home....Mother was always
required to have either a brother or an adult accompany her on the street.
The newly opened Brooklyn Bridge nearby was a favorite walk of hers.
At sixteen Mother was described as being a perfect Gibson Girl.
Gibson, a magazine cover artist, painted portraits of young women for his
covers. They were popularly known as "Gibson Girls". Mother had
their "look"; a straight Roman nose, deep set Hazel eyes, a full mouth,
clear skin and long brown hair piled loosely on the top of her head.
Mother was tall for her day, five feet eight, and proud of her perfect 38
figure.
While attending Normal School at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Mother met my
father, Jay Lutze. She married him after teaching school in a small
town in Connecticut for a brief period. Five years after her marriage
she was left a widow with four children and took a job as cafeteria manager
at the Bristol Company where my father had been employed. Mother soon
left that job and became social secretary to the Whittmore's in Naugatuck
where she stayed until she remarried.
At age 26 Mother found herself a widow with four very young children.
My sister Carolyn was born December 17, 1918, just five days before Daddy
died. Mother, still in bed from childbirth, was unable to attend the
funeral. Grandma [Eliza] Lutze came to live with us and help Mother.
Mother resisted all suggestions that we girls be put out for adoption and
kept her family together. She took us to Putney [Stratford,
Connecticut] to live for a brief period but finally returned to her home on
Neagle Street to live and worked to support us.
Grandma [Eliza Lutze] ran the house with iron discipline. Every moment
organized by the clock....
Mother had been a widow about two years when she married William Weir
Davison, a red head, who became our step-father. He was a young lawyer
from New York whom Mother had known years before she met Daddy. We
left Union City, but kept ownership of our house there, and moved to
Richmond Hill on Long Island.
We called our new father, Uncle Bill....I have slight recall of the big old
house we first lived in...It was a large white frame house with a wide front
veranda. The four of us girls shared the big upper room which took up
the whole third floor. We were put to bed at eight o'clock, summer or
winter....A year or two later we moved to a stucco and shingled house in a
nearby neighborhood. The sun porch was the attraction because it was a
novelty for me. So many windows out of which I could observe
everything!....
My half-brother John was born September 13, 1923, on [my sister] Anna's
ninth birthday...Mrs. Moran became part of the household at that time.
She cooked and helped generally with the housework and the baby. She
was chubby and cheerful, as I remember...
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