William Andrew Kaestner

William Andrew Kaestner

• Father: Charles Kastner b. 16 March 1848, d. between 1883 and 1887
• Mother: Catharina Zeitler b. November 1848

• William Andrew Kaestner was born on 11 March 1884 in New York or possibly New Jersey.
• Living next but one to the Bald family in the 1895 census are William and Mary Kastner, with children Joseph, Charles and William (?)
• Valentine Ams and Catharina Zeitler appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, at 56 Magnolia. Other members of the household included William Andrew Kaestner.
• He was employed "filling steel," according to the 1900 censusl.
• Valentine Ams and Catharina Zeitler appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, at 688 South 20th Street living not far from Anna Bald.. Other members of the household included William Andrew Kaestner.
• He was employed in a factory as a tool maker, according to the 1910 census.
• He married Anna Bald, daughter of Joseph Bald and Dorothea Oehm, circa 1912.
• William Andrew Kaestner registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Essex County, New Jersey, while living with his wife Anna at 688 South 20th Street in Newark, and employed there as a tool maker by Westinghouse Company.
• William Andrew Kaestner and Anna Bald appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Newark, New Jersey, at 688 South 20th Street. Other members of the household included William Joseph Kaestner and Joseph Frank Bald.
• He was employed as a tool maker by an electric supply manufacturing company, according to the 1920 census.
• William Andrew Kaestner became a widower at the between 1920 and 1930 death of his wife Anna Bald.
• William Andrew Kaestner appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Newark, Essex County, New York, at 688 South 20th Street. Other members of the household included William Joseph Kaestner and Franklin A. Kaestner.
• He was a machinery foreman, according to the 1930 census.

• Last Edited: 17 Oct 2009