Frederick E. Kilberer

b. October 1883, d. 5 February 1918
  • Frederick E. Kilberer was born in October 1883 in New York.
  • Frederick Kilberer and Louisa Dorothea Schumacher appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, at 531 Fourth Street. Other members of the household included Frederick E. Kilberer, Mary Kilberer, Jacob Herman Kilberer, Louis Raymond Kilberer, Louisa Kilberer and Doris A. Kilberer.
  • He was employed at buffing, according to the 1900 census.
  • Frederick Kilberer and Louisa Dorothea Schumacher appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, at 443 Eleventh Street. Other members of the household included Frederick E. Kilberer, Jacob Herman Kilberer, Louis Raymond Kilberer, Louisa Kilberer and Doris A. Kilberer.
  • He was a contractor working for his father, according to the 1910 census.
  • The following appeared on circa 29 January 1918 in The Buffalo Morning Express: Niagara Falls, Jan. 28?.-- Relatives of Frederick E. Kilberer, New York Central freight engineer, whose home is at No. 444 Eleventh street, today went to Rochester, where Kilberer is in a hospital in a serious condition as the result of an accident on the railroad near Spencerport early yesterday morning. According to word received here, the young man has a fractured skull and other injuries. /P/ Kilberer took his train from Niagara Falls down the Falls road yesterday morning. Near Spencerport he leaned from his engine cab. Smoke and steam from the engine obscured his view, and his head struck a freight car on a siding. He was hurled from the cab. The train was stopped by the fireman and Kilberer was taken to Rochester. /P/ E. J. Skimin, whose home is also on Eleventh street and who is also a Central engineer, met with a similar accident at Holley, a few miles from Spencerport, a few days ago.
  • Frederick E. Kilberer died on 5 February 1918 at age 34 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.
  • The following appeared on 5 February 1943 in The Niagara Falls Gazette: A Peep into the Past. Frederick E. Kilberer, 34-year-old New York Central engineer and popular member of a widely known family, died in a Rochester, N. Y., hospital 25 years ago today from injuries which he had received near Spencerport, N. Y., about a week previously when he leaned out of the cab window of his engine and struck his head on the side of a freightcar standing on an adjacent track. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kilberer and was survived by two brothers, Jacob and Louis, and three sisters, Mrs. William Leary, Mrs. Henry Madison and Miss Louise Kilberer.
  • Last Edited: 19 Oct 2009