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Married on October 3, 1928

John A. Maurer, Sr. & Marie Elizabeth Schilly

Maurer

Marie Maurer, John A. Maurer Jr., Louise Maurer

Janet Maurer, Mick Maurer, Joseph Maurer

Great Uncle Ben Schilly, Grandfather John A. "Jack" Maurer, Sr.,
and Great Grandfather Joseph Schilly

1953 me dancing with my Great Grandfather Joseph Schilly and my mom looking on.

My dad with his younger sister Marie and his older sister Louise.

My dad's younger brother Joe and his wife Janet in 1973 when I was on
leave from the army.

My Grandmother Marie Maurer with my parents, my mom is
expecting me.

Bell tower and roof of baptistry of Resurrection
Parish the church where they worshipped.

The place where my Grandfather John Maurer and my Great Uncle Ben Schilly worked.
Great Grandpa Joseph Schilly and Great Grandpa Johann Franz Maurer also worked there.

St. Anthony of Padua Parish where my grandparents
would go on Saturday to confession in German.

Melvin Gries, Louise Gries, Louise Maurer

My Aunt Marie and her husband Edward Kohne.

My godmother Aunt Louise and her
husband Mel Gries.

Marie E. Maurer, Margaret Mary Maurer, John A. Maurer Jr.

Marie E. Maurer, Mick Maurer, John A. Maurer Sr.

Louise Maurer, Louise Gries, Melvin Gries

Marie E. Maurer, Marie E. Schilly, John A. Maurer Jr.

My First Communion June 1960

My high school graduation May 1971

Aunt Louise and Uncle Mel's 25th Wedding Anniversary

Navy pic of my Uncle Joe Maurer

The Gries Family. Charlotte, Mary Jean, Rita, Uncle Mel, Paul, Aunt
Louise, Jack, and Larry. Father's Day June 2005

My dad with Grandma Maurer on the day of
his 8th Grade Graduation.

Bevo Mill a landmark in St. Louis City, a
restaurant started by Anheuser-Busch

Ted Drewes the half-way point between Resurrection
Parish and St. Anthony of Padua Parish

Cleveland High School which my father attended in South St. Louis City.

St. Anthony of Padua Parish. Budweiser has
product placement throughout my life.

My Grandfather John Anthony "Jack" Maurer, Sr. (b. 12-19-1900 in St. Louis, Mo;
d. 3-10-1977, St. Louis, Mo.) married my Grandmother Marie Elizabeth Schilly (b. 8-
14-1904 in St. Louis, Mo. the summer of the St. Louis Worlds Fair, d. 2-21-1972, St.
Louis, Mo.) on October 3, 1928 at St. Agatha Church in St. Louis, Mo. They had been
married for 44 years when Grandma Maurer died.

They had four children.

Rita Louise Maurer (b. 1929 St. Louis, Mo.; d. 2006 St. Louis, Mo.), my
godmother, who married Melvin Gries. They had six children:

Charlotte

Gries

(married Dennis Lammlein, and then Frank Zielger) she has

four children: Dawn Lammlein, Scott Lammlein, Craig Lammlein, and Steven

Lammlein;

Rita

Gries

(married Don Abeln, and then ? Fosse) she has two children:

Tracey Abeln and Eric Abeln;

Larry

Gries

(married Toni ?) they have two children: Sarah Gries and

Christine Gries;

John E.

Jack

" Gries

(married Colleen) her children from a previous marriage

are Charlene and Christopher;

Mary Jean

Gries

(married Don Mascare) they have two children: Melissa

Mascare and Madison Mascare;

Paul

Gries

(married Christine) they have one child: Taylor Gries.

My father, John A. "Mick" Maurer, Jr. (b. 1932 St. Louis, Mo.) who married my
mother Margaret Mary Morgan. (they have six children, you can read more about
us later)

Michael T. "Mick" Maurer

(alias Floyd)

, Presently not married and no children.

2. J

ohn A, Maurer, III

(married Pamela Siems) they have three children: John A.

Maurer IV (married Kasey Barton); Erin N. Maurer (married Jimmy Quattromoni);

and Michael Warren Maurer

Laura Maurer

(married Jim Didion) they have three children: Julie Didion,

Mark Maurer Didion, and Lisa Didion;

Teresa "Teri" Maurer

(married Robbie Wilson) they have two children:

Stephanie Wilson and Kacey Wilson;

Marilyn "Lynn" Maurer

(married Roger Schallom) they have three children:

Danielle "Danie" Schallom, Megan Schallom, and David Schallom;

Janet Maurer

(married Anthony "Nino" Mascalco) they have one child: Maria

Mascalco.

Marie Maurer (b. 1935 St. Louis, Mo.), who married Edmond Kohne.
Joseph A. Maurer (b. 1943 St. Louis, Mo.; d. 1980 St. Louis, Mo.) who married
Janet Sewald. They had three children:

Robert

Maurer

;

Presently not married and no children.

Joan

Maurer

(married Tim Bauer) they have three children: Dillon Bauer

Timothy Bauer, and Taylor Bauer;

Ronald

Maurer

(married Susan Hahnel)

Grandma Maurer was known for her pork shoulder (green ham), spatzels, egg noodles (which I ate raw), and her rum balls at Christmas time.

Marie Maurer, Louise Maurer, John A. Maurer Jr.

My dad, Aunt Marie and Aunt Louise in the Ozarks

My dad holding his baby brother Joe on Neosho Street.

Looks like Santa, but is it
possiblly Grandpa Jack
in his workshop?

John Sr. attended Latin School for his first year of High School. Being the oldest boy of the large
Maurer family he then had to go to work. Jack was good at fixing things so he went to Carter
Carburetor and took a mechanics course. He was working as a mechanic when he married Grandma
Marie in 1928. A year later he lost his job. So to put bread on the table he fixed cars in a little garage
he rented somewhere around Cherokee Street. He did this until 1932 when he was hired at the St.
Louis City Police Department Repair Garage. He was promoted to foreman in 1938, and worked
there until 1942.

When the Second World War was going on he got a job as a machinist with the Busch Diesel Plant,
which was on 2nd Street and Cherokee. In November 1945 they shut down and he was again out of a
job.

He then worked at Tucker Oldsmobile, which was on Grand Avenue. An uncle of his, an Esswein, was
elected to the Oilers Union at the breweries about then. (Anheuser-Busch, Lemp Brewery and
Griesedieck were three of the many operating in St. Louis at the time.) Jack talked to his uncle and
after waiting a year and a half he was hired at Griesedieck Brewery. He worked there for 2 years
and he was then able to transfer to Anheuser-Busch Brewery. It was a good thing he was able to
transfer to Busch because Griesedieck closed about 1950. Grandpa worked at Busch for 20
years. He retired when we was 67 years old in 1967.

Marie Elizabeth Schilly after she graduate from 8th grade went to St. Elizabeth's Academy for her
freshman year. While there Lena Schilly became pregnant with Adolph M. Schilly. Upon his birth Marie
was asked by Lena to drop out of St. Elizabeth's and to help her mom at home with baby Adolph. After
a few years she went then to work at her father's clothing store . She worked there for her father until
she married John A, Maurer in 1928. When her father was out of work, before he started at Busch, he
would walk to her house on Gasconade Street. If it was Friday he would stop at the Farmer's Open Air
Market on Broadway and Chippewa and buy limburger cheese, rye bread and white radishes. We
kids can now trace my fathers' John A. Maurer, III love of that triple smelly header to Joseph Schilly, Sr.
Joseph Schilly, Sr. and my grandmother Marie would make home brew in her basement. My dad and
his sister Louise would help cap the bottles if they filled them that day.

They moved from Gasconade Street in May of 1939 to Neosho Street. After her youngest son, Joseph
Maurer was born in 1943, she returned to work. She went to work at Harber Ackerman's Dry Goods
Store on Cherokee Street. My dad also worked there after school during his high school years from
September 1947 until June 1950. Ralph Ackerman, her boss, made Marie his head sales clerk and
buyer. She worked there until she was 63 years old. Grandma Marie died three years later from
breast cancer. I was in basic training and had to go on emergency leave to attend her funeral.

Griesedieck Brewery

Frank Maurer, Eleanor Schilly, John A. Maurer, Sr., Marie E. Schilly Maurer,
Louis Maurer, Ben Schilly; Ring bearer - Adolph M. Schilly. On October 3, 1928
Wedding of Marie E. Schilly and John A. Maurer.

Front row: Janet, Lynn &
Teri; John III, Laura,
Margaret & John Maurer,
Jr., & Mick

Marie Maurer

Front row: Bob, Ron,
Joan, Janet & Joe
Maurer

Sr. Mary Joseph, Rev. Adolph
Schilly, Marie & John Maurer, Sr.

Front row: Paul, Mary Jean,
Jack, Rita, Mel, Louise, and
Larry (Charlotte not present)
Gries

Picture of the John A. Maurer, SR. Family taken at Schilly Family Reunion Holy Infant Parish, Ballwin, Mo. 1968 or 1969

Floyd & Bertha Ferenbach Morgan - Margaret M. Morgan Maurer &
John A. Maurer, Jr. - Marie E. Schilly & John A. Maurer, Sr.

Schilly Cousins front l to r: Irvin Haisler,
Maire Maurer, Rich Haisler, John A. Maurer,
Jr., in back Louise Maurer

Neosho Street Neighbors: front row: Rosemary (neighbor) and Marie Maurer;
back row: Louis Maurer, John A. Maurer, Jr., and Mary Ann (neighbor)

From the wall, second seated row, third from front: John A. Maurer, Jr. at
St. Thomas Aquin School.

Maurer Ozark Vactaion: Louise and John on the ground, on porch is
John A. Maurer, Sr.

Marie Elizabeth Schilly

John A. "Jack" Maurer, Sr.

Jack and Marie Maurer

Ursula and Johann Maurer

Joe and Lena Schilly

Ben W. Schilly with his
god son John A. Maurer, Jr.

Mickey and Mick Maurer (John A. Maurer, JR.)

Grandma Maurer and Little Mickey

Back yard of Neosho Street

Joe Maurer

John III and Mick Maurer, Charlotte, Rita
and Larry Gries (Maurer Cousins) in back
yard of Neosho Street.

Mel and Louise (Maurer) Gries, with Janet Maurer in background; next to Marie (Maurer)
and Edmond Kohne. Between Louise and Marie in background is Kathy Schilly Bast and her
son Tommy at Rev. Adloph Schilly's Golden Jubliee as a Priest in 1994

John JR.

Little Mickey and Big Mick Maurer

Grandma Maurer, Grandmother Morgan,
Janet Maurer, Louise Maurer Gries 1971

Rita and Larry Gries, Mick Maurer 1 year
old, Char Gries; Grandma Maurer, Mom, and
Aunt Louise Gries my god-mother 1954

Resurrection School Picnic Maurer & Gries Cousins

When the Second World War was going on John, SR got a job as a machinist with the Busch Diesel Plant, which
was on 2nd Street and Cherokee. In November 1945 they shut down and he was again out of a job.

Busch-Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co.

The heart of the diesel locomotive, the diesel powerplant itself, got its name from Dr. Rudolph Diesel, a German
scientist and inventor who devised an internal-combustion engine based upon the concept of compression ignition
of fuel.

Dr. Diesel, meanwhile, began licensing his technology to several German, English, and U.S. firms, which took his
basic concept and tried to improve upon it. Many met with failure, but among the successful firms was the Diesel
Motor Co. of America, New York, N.Y., founded in 1898 by Adolphus Busch (of Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co., St.
Louis, Mo.).

In 1911, Busch, along with Dr. Diesel and the Swiss firm Sulzer Brothers, formed the Busch-Sulzer Brothers Diesel
Engine Co., St. Louis, which became one of the largest manufacturers of stationary and marine powerplants in the
U.S. The company, however, did not produce a diesel locomotive powerplant until 1935, when it provided a
10-cylinder unit for an Illinois Central locomotive built by GE.
Dr. Diesel died in 1913 (purportedly thrown overboard from an English Channel ferry by German military agents
who did not want his technology sold to the British government), but his invention, within two decades, would begin
to have a profound influence on the U.S. railroad industry.

U.S. Navy records housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society:

The records include correspondence, reports, blueprints, drawings, and legal records documenting the early
development of the diesel engine, improvement of the locomotive engine, submarine engine production during
World War I, engine production during World War II, and general industrial manufacturing; financial records
documenting assets and liabilities, production costs, and engine orders; and corporate records including minutes
of Board of Directors and stockholder meetings.

The U.S. Navy utilized the internal combustion engine as the basis for propulsion power and to charge the
batteries. The early engines used gasoline as fuel, which eventually was changed to the less intoxicating and
explosive diesel fuel.
The engines for Holland and the A-boats were made by the Otto Gas Engine Works of Philadelphia. Engines for the
B-, C-, and D-boats were made by Electric Boat at Fore River. Lake's G-1 and G-2 had White & Middleton engines
(Springfield, Ohio); Cramp used Italian-made FIATS.

The first practical diesels operated on a 4-stroke cycle (4-cycle) like that of a standard gasoline engine. Air sucked
in on the down stroke is compressed on the up stroke. At the top of the up stroke, oil is injected under sufficient
pressure to overcome the pressure of the air in the cylinder. It immediately ignites, heating the air in the cylinder.
The expanding hot air-gas mixture drives the piston down in a power stroke. The spent mixture is expelled on the
following up stroke, and the cycle repeats. In the alternative 2-stroke type, air is blown into the cylinder late in the
power stroke to blow out (scavenge) spent gas and then provide fresh air for the following (compression) stroke.
Every other stroke, rather than every fourth stroke, is a power stroke.

Submarines required unusually lightweight compact engines.
International competition to develop and test a wide variety of lightweight compact diesel engines for submarines
went on, from the early boats right through WWII. A wide variety of submarine drive systems were used. Some
engines were reversible and could be used for maneuvering. Others were not and had to rely on battery driven
electric motors for maneuvering. Engines could be used for propulsion or for battery charging because the engines
and main motors were coupled to the propeller shafts with clutches. The advent of the use of four diesel/generator
sets culminated as the best compromise. This arrangement provided maximum flexibility for directing power,
generated by any combination of diesel/generator sets for battery charging, propulsion and maneuvering
operations.

The Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Company of St. Louis, MO supplied a variety of their engines.

After leaving the Latin School, Jack Maurer was good at fixing things so he went to Carter
Carburetor and took a mechanics course.

Carter Carburetor

An art deco massing rises behind a squat building fronting Grand Boulevard in St. Louis.
Located directly across the street from the Powell Symphony Hall, the building is a striking
presence on the boulevard. The building housed the Carter Carburetor Corporation which
went out of business in the 1990's. It was built in 1928.

In 1932 John SR was hired at the St. Louis
City Police Department Repair Garage.
He was promoted to foreman in 1938, and
worked there until 1942.

St. Louis Police Department

In 1930, the Department began its own
radio station and 50 patrol cars were
equipped with receivers. New district
station houses were built throughout the
decade. Police report writing was begun in
1930 and the police lab was established
in 1935. By 1936, 22 policewomen were
on the force, and the Traffic Division
boasted 228 automobiles and 91
motorcycles.

John Sr. attended Latin School for his first year of
High School.

In 1818, the bishop of St. Louis, Bishop DuBourg, opened a Latin
school for boys known as the St. Louis Academy. Classes began
on November 16, 1818, in a one-story house that was owned by
Madame Alvarez and located on the northwest corner of Third and
Market Streets. Two years later, the Academy, now known as St.
Louis College, moved to its own building in the "Cathedral block" on
the west side of Second Street, between Walnut and Market Streets.
Lack of proper financial support and other difficulties forced the
college to close at the end of the 1826-27 session. Rev. Charles F.
VanQuickenbone, S.J. reopened the college in 1828-29, with
classes being held at the Jesuit Seminary in Florissant, Missouri.
The next year the school moved into a newly erected building on
Washington Avenue and Ninth Street. Chouteau, Mullanphy and
Clark were among the 16 family names listed on the first student
roster. When classes began at the new facility on Washington
Avenue, there were 11 boarders and 31 day-students in attendance.
The boarders were charged $120 annually, while the day-students
were charged $5, not for tuition but for "fuel and servants."

In December 1832 the Institution was chartered as a university, and
in 1834 it graduated it first Bachelor of Arts. From 1829 to 1887
undergraduate instruction in the classical course was carried on as
a unit of six years' duration with no hard and fast line drawn between
secondary instruction and collegiate instruction. During this period
St. Louis University High School was functioning as a school of
secondary education within the Department of Arts and Sciences. In
1888-89 the Collegiate and Academic Departments of St. Louis
University moved to its new campus on Grand Avenue and West
Pine Boulevard. Gradually, SLUH adjusted itself to the recently
established concept of high school in the United States. Beginning
with the session in 1903-04, instruction in the Academy was
lengthened to a four-year period, and in 1908-09 it was still further
standardized by the adoption of the eighth-grade entrance
requirement. It was also during this session that the University
established a system of closely affiliated classical high schools with
identical curricula designed not only to realize the best type of
secondary education of the day, but also to meet the recognized
college entrance examinations. These schools were St. Louis
Academy, Loyola Hall and Gonzaga Hall (which closed at the end of
the 1916-17 session).

Marie Elizabeth Schilly after she graduate from 8th grade
went to St. Elizabeth's Academy for her freshman year. While
there Lena Schilly became pregnant with Adolph M. Schilly.
Upon his birth Marie was asked by Lena to drop out of St.
Elizabeth's and to help her mom at home with baby Adolph.

Married on October 3, 1928 at St. Agatha Church in St. Louis, Mo.

St. Agatha Catholic 1871–2005 • The
early congregation was of German
descent.
• 1871 – 3239 S. 9th St.
St. Agatha Church was organized by Rev.
J. A. Stroomberger as a German
language parish in the Anheuser Busch
Brewery area. Early priest include Henry
Leygraaft (1871-1874) and William
Hinseen (1874-83). Construction of the
red brick church, under the leadership of
Rev. Henry Schrage, began in 1884 but
wasn't completed until 1899. Located at
3239 South 9th Street at Utah Street,
(63118) in the Soulard area.

Schilly

John A. Maurer, Sr. worked as a mechanic at Tucker Oldsmobile, on Grand Avenue, St. Louis from 1945 to 1947