Schnorrer Club of Morrisania was established in 1881. It was located at East 163rd Street, 1 block east of Third Avenue. Membership included many notable figures and it was active in Democratic Party politics. It closed in 1966.[1]

A recreational social club, the Schnorrers were part of "voluntary association" based on the German Vereine or society.[2]

A passage in To Darling Ellie and Dana describes the club as being a big German-American club that people went to for fun. It was said to reek of beer.[3] The club was also testified about in the Senate of the State of New York in a report of the Joint Legislative Committee in testimony regarding P. Erskine Wood.[4]

Members

  • Peter J. Everett, New York Assemblyman circa 1903[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Twomey, Bill (2002). South Bronx. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7385-1020-0.
  2. ↑ Ziegelman, Jane (2010). 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. HarperCollins. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-06-199790-7.
  3. ↑ Charles J. Urstadt (2010). To Darling Ellie And Dana: A Long Letter from Gramps. Xlibris Corporation. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4535-0603-5.
  4. ↑ New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1916). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York. p. 400.
  5. ↑ Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1904). Who's who in New York (city and State). Who's who publications, Incorporated. p. 215.
  6. ↑ The New York Red Book. Williams Press. 1904. p. 141.
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