Notes:

Niagara Gazette

Word has been
the death of John
87, a Niagara Falls native who
was vice president, treasurer
and director of Acheson
Graphite Co. until it was
dissolved in 1944.
Mr. Deringer, who was born
here Nov. 22, 1882, the eldest
son of John W. and Margaret
Wagner Deringer, died i n
Kintnersville, Pa. Jan. 8, 1970.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Griselda Plater o f
Kintnersville; a grandson, and
a sister, Mrs. William G.
Smale, Niagara Falls.
Mr. Deringer dictated facts
about himself to a local law
office in 1967.
He noted he went to grammar
school from the age of 6 to
13.
During the Grover Cleveland
administration his father, a
carpenter, could not find work
and since the family drew the
line at applying to the county
relief officer, he went to work
as an office boy at the Carter-
Crume Co., which is now Moore
Business Forms Inc.
He was engaged at $2.50 a
week and almost at once
started at night school studying
accounting and shorthand. A
short time later he was put
in charge of the Carter-Crume
order department.
Three years later he applied
to the new Acheson Graphite
Co. and he said that because
the delivery of equipment was
late, for two months he and
the son of the furnace man
worked s e p a r a t i n g carborundum
from graphite for
test purposes.
A Mr. Collins, who was in
charge, had to let him go but
promised he would be given a
job back if he needed one.
He next applied to t he
Niagara Silver Co. got a job
as office boy and a few months
later was made an aide to the
bookkeeper and another boy
was hired to take his place.
"After five years of poor
wages, I finally decided that
wages would be slow unless I
joined the Baptist Church," he
said.
At the age of- 21, in the year
1904, he rejoined Acheson.
He became assistant to Frank
Coe, the treasurer, and when
Acheson Oildag Co. was formed
he was asked by Dr. Acheson
if he cared to move to Port
Huron, Mich.
Mr. Deringer became
treasurer of the new company
and in 1912 he became a member
of a delegation going to
London to open a new Acheson
office. He was named secretary
to the company with the duty
of treasurer in England.
In 1925 Mr. Deringer became
company treasurer in New York
City.
In 1944 the Acheson Corp.
was dissolved "for President
Roosevelt was planning to adopt
a much higher tax on intercorporate
dividends than previously,
which would hit us very
hard for all the dividends the
family owned passed through
our funds."
Be was vice p r e s i d e n t ,
treasurer and director of
Acheson at the time.

John married STEINBRENNER, Ida R about May 1907 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Ida (daughter of STEINBRENNER, Karl and LOEHER, Barbara) was born on 1 Apr 1886 in New York; died in Sep 1978 in Kintnersville, Bucks County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/17/1907

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steinbrenner announce
the engagement of their
daughter, Ida R., to J o h n Deringer of
this city. The wedding will take
place in the near future.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DERINGER, Griselda

John married WAGNER, Margaret on 12 Nov 1881 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Margaret (daughter of WAGNER, Johannes and BAUM, Rosina) was born on 27 Feb 1861 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 15 Jun 1892 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 6/18/1892

Mrs. Margaret Deringer, wife of John W.
Dennger, died at her home No. 29 Elm
street at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
For over a year she had been an invalid and
her death was the result of paralysis of the
brain. She was born in this city and, with
the exception of a two years residence in
Toledo, has always made it her home. Her
maiden name was Margaret Wagner and she
was a daughter of Mrs. Rosena Wagner of
Ontario street. She was 31 years old and
leave a husband and four sons. Tho funeral
will occur from the residence at 2 p. M. Sunday
and from the German Lutheran church
at 2:30 P. M.

Notes:

Still alive in 1880 Census - Death date was showing as 4/18/1864 - must be 1884; from June 6/25/2007:

When I found out via a postcard German town might be Laichingen I wrote
to the Evang. Church and got page of info.

Wagner Johannes Georg b. 27 July 1828 Seissen, Baden-Württemberg, Ger.
Father: Johannes Georg, Seissen, Wurt.,Ger.
Mother: Elisabetha Mutchler -Seissen, Wurt., Ger.

2)Rosina/Rose d.12 July 1909 Burial: Elmlawn Cemetery, Married: 12
Nov.1881 Eugene Elsasser on Census & cemetery info.

6)Frederick John Wagner - burial stone says Frederick. I never could
find Frances. She probably remarried.

7)Chistuff/Christopher John Wagner b.1 Mar.1874 d.31 May 1945 Bachelor.
Move to Ca in 1910. I have the cemetery info.

Rosina Wagner, Barbara McGahey, Frederick Wagner all buried on same lot.
David McGahey is buried in Canada.

B) I have be looking for the birth of Jungs for about 50 years. The
original church built about 1867 burned and was destroyed. The women who
kept the records died and no body knows what happened to them.

Lizzie Wagner is married to William Walker. She died 20 June 1895, age
about 38. I have checked the Jungs I sent you Sat. and I am beginning to
think records are not part of the Mormon records and the German man went
to the place in Bavaria where such records are kept.

Johannes + BAUM, Rosina. Rosina (daughter of BAUM, Georg Friedrich and MACK, Margaretha) was born on 22 Jan 1832 in Laichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 18 Oct 1912 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed as Mary Merringer in 1910 census living with daughter, Barbara. Shows immigration in 1852.
1900 Census lists Rosina Merringer with husband Michael - shows married 46 years and had 10 children with 2 children living. This would put her original marriage at 1854 which would mean she married Johannes Wagner in the United States. Also in 1900 shows her immigration date as 1853.

Niagara Gazette - 10/19/1912

A resident of Niagara Falls for sixty
years passed away yesterday In the
death, of Mrs. Rosine Merringer at the
home- of her daughter. Mrs. Barbara
McGahey. 451 Eleventh street. She was
79 years old and death was d u e to old
age.
mrs. merringer was born in Ritten-
berg, Germany. She came to Niagara
Falls in 1852 and had resided here ev-
er since. Surviving her are a son,
Christopher Wagner, of Pasadena, Cal.,
a daughter, Mrs. Barbara McGahey,
of this city, two brothers and two sis-
ters, John Baum of this city, is a bro-
ther, Mrs. Elizabeth Young of Grand
Island, is a sister. The other relatives
reside in Germany
The funeral will be held from 451
Eleventh street on Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. The burial will be
Oakwood Cemetery.

Johann + MUTCHLER, Elisabetha. Elisabetha was born in Seissen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Georg married MACK, Margaretha in 1827 in Laichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Margaretha (daughter of MACK, Heinrich and RIEK, Johanna Jacobine) was born on 27 Apr 1804 in Laichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 7 May 1882 in Laichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]