Councilman: 1851 A County Donegal, Ireland native born in 1810, Daniel McSheaffrey served one term as a city councilman in 1851. He may be a relative of “Dennis McSheffery,” another County Donegal native (specifically the parish of Moville) who died in 1840 and is buried in Bartow County, but Daniel’s parentage is unknown. Neither the…
William H. Schroder House
239 Rumson Road NE 1926: Smith & Downing In May 1926 the Constitution announced that “W. H. Schroder, of Atlanta, has purchased the beautiful Dutch colonial home at 239 Rumson road, Garden Hills . . . . The purchaser who has been living for a number of years in south Georgia where he was an…
Elias Haiman (1843–1914)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1883, 1884 Born in Kolmar in the Prussian territory of Posen (now Chodzież, Poland) in 1843, Elias Haiman was the son of Hirsch and Theresa (_____) Haiman. He immigrated with his family in 1856 and settled in Columbus, Georgia, where the 1860 U.S. federal census found him employed as a tinner. When…
James R. Crew (1823–1865)
Second Ward Councilman: 1860, 1861, 1862 Born in South Carolina in 1823 but “reared in Henry county, Georgia,” James R. Crew came to Marthasville in 1843. His parentage is unknown, but he was apparently a relative of James Camak, who helped secure James Crew employment in Marthasville with the Georgia Railroad. James was married to…
Adolf Neubauer House
1 Barksdale Drive NE 1908: Architect Unknown A real estate advertisement in the April 16, 1911 Constitution listed “O. Neubauer” among the “names of 300 of Atlanta’s best citizens” with property in Ansley Park, urging the reader to “Add Your Name to the List While You Can.” (A contemporaneous plat map shows the Neubauer house…
Philip Breitenbucher (1842–1916)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1903, 1904 Philippe Breitenbücher was born in 1842 in Hohwiller, a tiny Alsatian hamlet. He was the son of Philippe and Julienna Salome (Zittel) Breitenbücher. He came to the States around 1856 and lived for a while in Buffalo, New York where he was a silver plater’s apprentice in 1860. He soon…
Edward Lyle House
108 Seventeenth Street NE Circa 1915: P. Thornton Marye A 1911 plat map of the newly established Ansley Park neighborhood listed James Dibrell Sparks as the owner of a lot on Seventeenth Street. Sparks was a Fort Smith, Arkansas-native and son of a wealthy banker who married Irene Thrash in 1907. The couple did not…
Thomas Dick Longino (1846–1947)
Seventh Ward Councilman: 1900, 1901, 1908; Seventh Ward Alderman: 1902, 1903, 1904; Mayor Pro Tem: 1904 A Campbell County, Georgia native, Thomas Dick Longino was the son of John Thomas and Elizabeth (Brewster) Longino. Both the 1850 and 1860 U.S. federal censuses located him in his parent’s household, and an 1864 militia enrollment list found…
Paschal House (1809–aft. 1884)
Councilman: 1851, 1854 The earliest record of Paschal House is his May 1825 marriage record to Clara Ann Pattillo, daughter of James Pattillo, in Henry County, Georgia. Other records indicate that he was 15 years old and she was 12 years old at the time. Both the 1830 and the 1840 U.S. federal censuses located…
Charles Howard Girardeau (1861–1928)
Second Ward Alderman: 1903, 1904, 1905 A native of Liberty County, Georgia, Charles Howard Girardeau was born in 1861, a son of John Edward and Jane (Warnott) Girardeau. His father, a Confederate soldier, died during the war and both the 1870 and 1880 U.S. federal censuses found Charles on his widowed mother’s farm in Liberty…
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