Friday's Photo: Charles Staubach, Sr.

Charles Staubach, Sr. - photo taken about 1921

Charles Staubach, Jr. doted on his daughter, Doris, when she was a child. She remembered him as a kind man who took her out for ice cream after he attended services at the Lutheran Church each Sunday. When I asked Doris, my mother-in-law, about his family, she was only able to tell me a little. She knew that her father's parents spoke German and they had a butcher shop. 

Years later, I now know just a little more. Charles Staubach, Sr. was born in Herbstein, Germany on October 18, 1846. He came to New York sometime in October of 1871 and married his wife, Margaret, in 1872. His only child, Charles Staubach, Jr., was born in 1878. 

Charles Sr. completed an application for a passport in 1921. He was going to Germany to visit his brother. He was 74 years old and retired. The photograph above was his passport photo. 

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Sources 

"United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDF-PDYV : 16 March 2018), Charles Staubach, 1921; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #48326, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 1644, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6NB-C7Q : 25 August 2019), Charles Staubach, Jr, 1917-1918.