97 Orchard Street

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The Glockner Family
Lucas Glockner, the first landlord of 97 Orchard Street, was born in the German state of Baden in 1820. His wife, Wilhelmina Glockner (maiden name unknown), was born in the German state of Bavaria in 1837 (see MAP 1). We don't know exactly when the two came to America, but we do know that Lucas had a son, Edward, in New York City in 1846 (not with Wilhelmina). He had another son in 1859, Oscar Otto, before meeting Wilhelmina. Thus, Wilhelmina was the third woman with whom Lucas Glockner had a child and possibly also his third wife. Lucas and Wilhelmina had four children: William was born in 1865, Arthur in 1869, and Minnie and Ida were born sometime between 1871 and 1877.

Lucas was originally a tailor. In 1862, he moved to a converted row house at 119 St. Mark's Place, where he lived while building 97 Orchard Street. He then became a landlord as well after purchasing the property of the Second Reformed Presbyterian Church on Orchard Street with two partners, also tailors, Adam Stumm and Jacob Walter. They divided the Church site into three lots - Glockner received 97 Orchard Street - and each built a tenement. Glockner married Wilhelmina around this time. The 1864 tax assessments record that Glockner's property was valued at $8,000. Since the two buildings on either side of 97 Orchard Street were also constructed by tailors, its possible Glockner acquired the money to build his tenement through some type of tailor's union

Despite his property, when registering for the draft during the Civil War, Lucas Glockner still listed his occupation as a tailor - yet we know Lucas was an active landlord. In 1883, he testified at the surrogate's court hearing of one of his tenants, Natalie Gumpertz, concerning the disappearance of her husband Julius (see Gumpertz Family). While most tenements changed hands frequently, Lucas Glockner held on to 97 Orchard Street until 1886, when he sold it for $29,000. He also owned a number of properties on nearby Allen Street.

Edward Glockner, Lucas's first child (not by Wilhelmina), married Caroline Stoeckel, whose parents lived in 97 Orchard Street in 1870. The Stoeckel family had all been born in Saxony. Caroline kept house and Edward was a bookbinder. They had three children together, only one of whom, Edward, survived infancy. Oscar Glockner, Lucas's second son, lived with his father and stepmother at 97 Orchard Street. He married his wife Ida around 1880 and had a child in 1882. They later moved to East Orange, New Jersey. Unfortunately, we don't know what happened to the children of Lucas and Wilhelmina after their births, except that all but Arthur were still alive at the time of their parents' deaths. Lucas died in 1891 while living at 152 Henry Street and Wilhelmina died the following year.
Information based on Surrogate's Court files, birth certificates, 1864 draft registrations, 1870 and 1910 Censuses, 1891 death certificate.

See also: Appendix B; Germans; Lower East Side; Ninety-Seven Orchard Street; Tenements.