Parents: Jean Alphonse and Marie Louise (Lucas) Chaintron
History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1881, pg. 1277-1278
Transcribed and contributed by: Maxine
DYE-HOUSES AND LAUNDRIES.
A. (Alphonse). Chaintron & Son, French dyers and scourers, No. 557 East Water street. Business established in March, 1854. Mr. Chaintron first commenced business with a small capital of about $1,000, doing his own work. In the Spring of 1870 he sold his business to his son Ferdinand, who ran it six years until his death, January 3, 1877, which was caused by the explosion of benzine. He and his wife were burned to death. The younger brother, Gustav, narrowly escaped being burned to death at the same time. This is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. A. Chaintron learned the business in Paris, commencing at the age of 15 and, having followed it all his life, is an expert. Alphonse was born in France November 15, 1820, and came to Milwaukee in June, 1854. His father, John, and his grandfather were both dyers before him. He was married June 26, 1843, to Miss Louise Lucas, of France. They have one son living.
What follows is a journalist's conversation with the director of Forest Home Cemetery:
"On a recent morning, Paul Haubrich was poking through a wooden drawer on the wall of Forest Home's walk-in safe.
Haubrich, a retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor, has been a member of the Forest Home Cemetery Committee since 1993 and its chairman since 1996.
The drawer contained dozens of keys. Small keys. Big ones. Ornate. Plain. They were mausoleum keys, with august names attached. Blatz. Allis. Alstead.
There's a sad story behind this one, Haubrich said, pulling a steel key 5 inches long from the drawer. A ring fastened the key to a metal tag engraved "Chaintron."
The father in this family started what today would be called a dry-cleaning business, Haubrich said. He passed the business along to his son and daughter-in-law. One day, the chemicals in the building blew up, and both were killed. So the father built them a mausoleum.
Haubrich is 64 years old. He has silver hair and was wearing a green and navy striped tie. He and his wife plan to be buried at Forest Home.
Haubrich laid the Chaintron key in with the others and closed the drawer"
Wisconsin Death Index
Ferdnand Chaintron
Death: 06 Jan 1877
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Newspaper Archive
ALTON DAILY TELEGRAPH
4 March 1892 p.4
CAN MOVE the REMAINS
Milwaukee, March 4
Judge Johnson has rendered a decision which is of importance to Catholics all over the country, as well as their relatives. FERDINAND CHAINTRON and wife were burned to death some years ago and were buried by request in Calvary Cemetery, which is a Catholic burying ground. A short time ago, ADOLF CHANTRON, the father of the deceased man, desired to remove the remains to Forest Home Cemetery.
A Frequently Raised Question
Father Zeininger refused to allow him to enter the cemetery and threatened him with prosecution if he persisted. The Court held that the father had the right to demand possession of the remains of his son wherever he found them and no church and no church authority had the right to stand in the way of his disposition of them as he saw fit. The question is one that has frequently been raised, but which it is believed, has never before been taken into court and adjudicated.
SEE: Fernand Auguste Chaintron • L51G-KPD
23 March 1844 – 5 January 1877
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L51G-KPD
History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1881, pg. 1277-1278
Transcribed and contributed by: Maxine
DYE-HOUSES AND LAUNDRIES.
A. (Alphonse). Chaintron & Son, French dyers and scourers, No. 557 East Water street. Business established in March, 1854. Mr. Chaintron first commenced business with a small capital of about $1,000, doing his own work. In the Spring of 1870 he sold his business to his son Ferdinand, who ran it six years until his death, January 3, 1877, which was caused by the explosion of benzine. He and his wife were burned to death. The younger brother, Gustav, narrowly escaped being burned to death at the same time. This is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. A. Chaintron learned the business in Paris, commencing at the age of 15 and, having followed it all his life, is an expert. Alphonse was born in France November 15, 1820, and came to Milwaukee in June, 1854. His father, John, and his grandfather were both dyers before him. He was married June 26, 1843, to Miss Louise Lucas, of France. They have one son living.
What follows is a journalist's conversation with the director of Forest Home Cemetery:
"On a recent morning, Paul Haubrich was poking through a wooden drawer on the wall of Forest Home's walk-in safe.
Haubrich, a retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor, has been a member of the Forest Home Cemetery Committee since 1993 and its chairman since 1996.
The drawer contained dozens of keys. Small keys. Big ones. Ornate. Plain. They were mausoleum keys, with august names attached. Blatz. Allis. Alstead.
There's a sad story behind this one, Haubrich said, pulling a steel key 5 inches long from the drawer. A ring fastened the key to a metal tag engraved "Chaintron."
The father in this family started what today would be called a dry-cleaning business, Haubrich said. He passed the business along to his son and daughter-in-law. One day, the chemicals in the building blew up, and both were killed. So the father built them a mausoleum.
Haubrich is 64 years old. He has silver hair and was wearing a green and navy striped tie. He and his wife plan to be buried at Forest Home.
Haubrich laid the Chaintron key in with the others and closed the drawer"
Wisconsin Death Index
Ferdnand Chaintron
Death: 06 Jan 1877
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Newspaper Archive
ALTON DAILY TELEGRAPH
4 March 1892 p.4
CAN MOVE the REMAINS
Milwaukee, March 4
Judge Johnson has rendered a decision which is of importance to Catholics all over the country, as well as their relatives. FERDINAND CHAINTRON and wife were burned to death some years ago and were buried by request in Calvary Cemetery, which is a Catholic burying ground. A short time ago, ADOLF CHANTRON, the father of the deceased man, desired to remove the remains to Forest Home Cemetery.
A Frequently Raised Question
Father Zeininger refused to allow him to enter the cemetery and threatened him with prosecution if he persisted. The Court held that the father had the right to demand possession of the remains of his son wherever he found them and no church and no church authority had the right to stand in the way of his disposition of them as he saw fit. The question is one that has frequently been raised, but which it is believed, has never before been taken into court and adjudicated.
SEE: Fernand Auguste Chaintron • L51G-KPD
23 March 1844 – 5 January 1877
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L51G-KPD
Parents: Jean Alphonse and Marie Louise (Lucas) Chaintron
History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1881, pg. 1277-1278
Transcribed and contributed by: Maxine
DYE-HOUSES AND LAUNDRIES.
A. (Alphonse). Chaintron & Son, French dyers and scourers, No. 557 East Water street. Business established in March, 1854. Mr. Chaintron first commenced business with a small capital of about $1,000, doing his own work. In the Spring of 1870 he sold his business to his son Ferdinand, who ran it six years until his death, January 3, 1877, which was caused by the explosion of benzine. He and his wife were burned to death. The younger brother, Gustav, narrowly escaped being burned to death at the same time. This is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. A. Chaintron learned the business in Paris, commencing at the age of 15 and, having followed it all his life, is an expert. Alphonse was born in France November 15, 1820, and came to Milwaukee in June, 1854. His father, John, and his grandfather were both dyers before him. He was married June 26, 1843, to Miss Louise Lucas, of France. They have one son living.
What follows is a journalist's conversation with the director of Forest Home Cemetery:
"On a recent morning, Paul Haubrich was poking through a wooden drawer on the wall of Forest Home's walk-in safe.
Haubrich, a retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor, has been a member of the Forest Home Cemetery Committee since 1993 and its chairman since 1996.
The drawer contained dozens of keys. Small keys. Big ones. Ornate. Plain. They were mausoleum keys, with august names attached. Blatz. Allis. Alstead.
There's a sad story behind this one, Haubrich said, pulling a steel key 5 inches long from the drawer. A ring fastened the key to a metal tag engraved "Chaintron."
The father in this family started what today would be called a dry-cleaning business, Haubrich said. He passed the business along to his son and daughter-in-law. One day, the chemicals in the building blew up, and both were killed. So the father built them a mausoleum.
Haubrich is 64 years old. He has silver hair and was wearing a green and navy striped tie. He and his wife plan to be buried at Forest Home.
Haubrich laid the Chaintron key in with the others and closed the drawer"
Wisconsin Death Index
Ferdnand Chaintron
Death: 06 Jan 1877
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Newspaper Archive
ALTON DAILY TELEGRAPH
4 March 1892 p.4
CAN MOVE the REMAINS
Milwaukee, March 4
Judge Johnson has rendered a decision which is of importance to Catholics all over the country, as well as their relatives. FERDINAND CHAINTRON and wife were burned to death some years ago and were buried by request in Calvary Cemetery, which is a Catholic burying ground. A short time ago, ADOLF CHANTRON, the father of the deceased man, desired to remove the remains to Forest Home Cemetery.
A Frequently Raised Question
Father Zeininger refused to allow him to enter the cemetery and threatened him with prosecution if he persisted. The Court held that the father had the right to demand possession of the remains of his son wherever he found them and no church and no church authority had the right to stand in the way of his disposition of them as he saw fit. The question is one that has frequently been raised, but which it is believed, has never before been taken into court and adjudicated.
SEE: Fernand Auguste Chaintron • L51G-KPD
23 March 1844 – 5 January 1877
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L51G-KPD
History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1881, pg. 1277-1278
Transcribed and contributed by: Maxine
DYE-HOUSES AND LAUNDRIES.
A. (Alphonse). Chaintron & Son, French dyers and scourers, No. 557 East Water street. Business established in March, 1854. Mr. Chaintron first commenced business with a small capital of about $1,000, doing his own work. In the Spring of 1870 he sold his business to his son Ferdinand, who ran it six years until his death, January 3, 1877, which was caused by the explosion of benzine. He and his wife were burned to death. The younger brother, Gustav, narrowly escaped being burned to death at the same time. This is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. A. Chaintron learned the business in Paris, commencing at the age of 15 and, having followed it all his life, is an expert. Alphonse was born in France November 15, 1820, and came to Milwaukee in June, 1854. His father, John, and his grandfather were both dyers before him. He was married June 26, 1843, to Miss Louise Lucas, of France. They have one son living.
What follows is a journalist's conversation with the director of Forest Home Cemetery:
"On a recent morning, Paul Haubrich was poking through a wooden drawer on the wall of Forest Home's walk-in safe.
Haubrich, a retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor, has been a member of the Forest Home Cemetery Committee since 1993 and its chairman since 1996.
The drawer contained dozens of keys. Small keys. Big ones. Ornate. Plain. They were mausoleum keys, with august names attached. Blatz. Allis. Alstead.
There's a sad story behind this one, Haubrich said, pulling a steel key 5 inches long from the drawer. A ring fastened the key to a metal tag engraved "Chaintron."
The father in this family started what today would be called a dry-cleaning business, Haubrich said. He passed the business along to his son and daughter-in-law. One day, the chemicals in the building blew up, and both were killed. So the father built them a mausoleum.
Haubrich is 64 years old. He has silver hair and was wearing a green and navy striped tie. He and his wife plan to be buried at Forest Home.
Haubrich laid the Chaintron key in with the others and closed the drawer"
Wisconsin Death Index
Ferdnand Chaintron
Death: 06 Jan 1877
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Newspaper Archive
ALTON DAILY TELEGRAPH
4 March 1892 p.4
CAN MOVE the REMAINS
Milwaukee, March 4
Judge Johnson has rendered a decision which is of importance to Catholics all over the country, as well as their relatives. FERDINAND CHAINTRON and wife were burned to death some years ago and were buried by request in Calvary Cemetery, which is a Catholic burying ground. A short time ago, ADOLF CHANTRON, the father of the deceased man, desired to remove the remains to Forest Home Cemetery.
A Frequently Raised Question
Father Zeininger refused to allow him to enter the cemetery and threatened him with prosecution if he persisted. The Court held that the father had the right to demand possession of the remains of his son wherever he found them and no church and no church authority had the right to stand in the way of his disposition of them as he saw fit. The question is one that has frequently been raised, but which it is believed, has never before been taken into court and adjudicated.
SEE: Fernand Auguste Chaintron • L51G-KPD
23 March 1844 – 5 January 1877
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L51G-KPD
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