Maurice Edmund Preisch
b. 7 March 1858, d. 17 May 1934
- Maurice Edmund Preisch was born on 7 March 1858 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York.
- He married Jennie Wing, daughter of Charles Johnson Wing and Susan Ball.
- He married Marion Pauline Richmond, daughter of Ira E. Richmond and Emily (?).
- Maurice Edmund Preisch became a widower at the February 1925 death of his wife Jennie Wing.
- Maurice Edmund Preisch died on 17 May 1934 at age 76 in Manhattan, New York, at 186 Riverside Drive.
- The following appeared on 19 May 1934 in The New York Times: Maurice E. Preisch, a prominent wholesale lumber dealer in New York State and president of the Lumber Mutual Casualty Insurance Company of New York, 41 East Forty-second Street, died on Thursday of carcinoma of the liver at his home, 186 Riverside Drive, after a two-month illness. Mr. Preisch, who also maintained a home in Buffalo, was prominent in the affairs of the Congregational Church. His age was 75.
Born in Lockport, Mr. Preisch moved, as a young man, to North Tonawanda, where he began his business career as a bookkeeper for the Haines Lumber Company, in which he was a partner until six years ago. He formerly was a vice president of the Bathurst Lumber Company in New Brunswick, Canada, and president of Newark (N. J>) Planing Mill and the Hope Falls (N. Y.) Lumber Company.
In 1914, Mr. Preisch helped t6o found the Lumber Mutual Casualty Company of New York, serving as its president and a director until his death. He was vice president and a director of the Pittsford (N. Y.) Lumber Company and formerly vice president of the E. W. Bartholomew Lumber Company of Rochester. Mr. Preisch, in 1918, was president of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. He formerly was president of the New York Congregational Conference.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marion Preisch; a son, Herbert Preisch of Buffalo; two daughters, Mrs. John A. Armstrong of Kenmore, and Mrs. Horace R. Schroeder of Buffalo, and a brother, Frank A. Preisch of Philadelphia.
Burial will take place in Buffalo.
- Last Edited: 22 Aug 2012