8 Aberdeen Place1


8 Aberdeen Place was build in 1930. The designation is Block 3706, Lot 5.2
The occupants of 8 Aberdeen Place were:

#1. Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. (from 1930 to 1931.)
The value of the house in 1930 was $9,500.3
The New York Times, 18 June 1930, pg. 51.
     The City Housing Corporation announced the sale a house at 8 Aberdeen Place, Radburn, New Jersey to Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. formerly of Baton Rouge, LA.4

Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. was born in 1905 in Pennsylvania.3 Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. married Genevieve in 1929.3 Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. appeared on the 1930 Census as the head of household at 8 Aberdeen Place, with Genevieve as wife.3 Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. was an assoc. editor of a newspaper.3 He owned a radio in 1930.3 Herbert C. Yahraes Jr. died on 28 December 1985 in Poughkeepsie, New York.5 (Obituary in the (Allentown, PA) Morning Call on 20 January 1985, pg. B12. Herbert C. Yahraes Jr., 79, of 25 Cornell Ave., Red Hook, N.Y., formerly of Easton, a journalist and noted free-lance health writer, died Dec. 28 in St. Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was the husband of Genevieve (Leppert) Yahraes. He began his journalism career as a correspondent for the Express in Easton while attending Lafayette College, graduating from there in 1927. After that, Yahraes was a textbook editor for the American Book Co., New York, and the Baton Rouge correspondent for the New Orleans Item and the United Press. He also was an associate editor for the Fairlawn-Radburn, N.J. News, a feature writer for the Associated Press, and was a writer and managing editor of the newspaper P.M., New York. As a free-lance writer, he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American, Popular Science Monthly, Women's Home Companion, McCall's, Harper, and pamphlets for the Public Affairs Committee. Born in Bethlehem, he was a son of the late Herbert Sr. and Katie (Brinker) Yahraes. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and also a member of the Lafayette Maroon Club of Lafayette College. He received two AAAS-Westinghouse Citations for science writing and, with his wife, received a Lasker Foundation Award for an article on epilepsy. Yahraes collaborated with physicians and scientists in a number of works on public health, some of them sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He coauthored two books, "A Child's Journey" and "Why Isn't Johnny Crying?" with Julius Segal. Surviving with his widow are two daughters, Genevieve Y. Neff of Chicago, Ill., and Katrina N. of Highland, N.Y; two brothers, John of Norristown and Richard of Bonn, Germany; two sisters, Elizabeth Cornelius of Jacksonville, Fla., and Margaret Burke of Easton; 10 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Memorial services were Dec. 31 in the United Church of Christ, Stanfordville. Author: Sunday Call-Chronicle, Edition: THIRD, Page: B12.)5
Genevieve Yahraes was born in 1906 in Alabama.3 He owned a radio in 1930.6 Before coming to Radburn Herbert and Genevieve lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.4


#2. Neill N. Payne (1933).
     See 305 Plaza Road North for his biography.


#3. Leopold Frankel (1935.)
Leopold was listed in 1935 at 8 Aberdeen Place, and in 1937 as removed to Paterson. Leopold Frankel married Esther S.7 Leopold Frankel was an accountant in Paterson.7


#4. Ruben A. Beman (from 1939 to 1944).
     In 1940 his mother Fanny Beman is enumerated with him.
The value of the house in 1940 was $8,000.8

Ruben A. Beman was born in 1898 in Massachusetts.8 Ruben A. Beman married Katherine.9,8,10 Ruben A. Beman was an internal revenue agent in Jersey City.9,10,8 Katherine was born in 1899 in District of Columbia.8 Ruben and Katherine lived in 1935 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.8

Fanny Beman was born in 1862 in Canada.8 Fanny lived in 1935 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.8


#5. David B. Mayer.
David was listed in 1937-44 at 7 Brighton Place, in 1946-1952 at 8 Aberdeen Place, and in 1954-1973 at 11 Andover Place. In 1952 no wife was listed.
David B. Mayer was born in 1901 in New York.11 David B. Mayer (1) married Margaret M.. She is not listed in 1952.12,11,13 David B. Mayer was a salesman (paint), in 1946 in NY, in 1958 on LI.12,11,14,15 David and Margaret lived in 1935 in North Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey, with their child David A.11 Margaret was born in 1900 in New Jersey.11 David and Margaret had 2 children: David A. and Judith A.11 David B. Mayer (2) married Carmen S.. Carmen was widow David B. in 1966.16 David was born in 1932 in New Jersey.11 David A. Mayer was in 1952 in the US Army, in 1966 a (shipping) clerk
for United Petroleum Carriers Lyndhurst in Lyndhurst.17,14,16 Judith was born in 1937 in New Jersey.11 Judith A. Mayer was in 1958 a student.14


#6. Walter S. Russell.


#7. Stuart Wood.


#8. William Struble (from 1966 to 1973.)
William Struble married Vera.


In 1937 it was listed as vacant.

Citations

  1. [S3] Radburn Association, Map of Radburn, NJ, c. 1990.
  2. [S80] New Jersey Tax Records, online http://www.njtaxrecords.net/
  3. [S1] 1930 Federal Census, T626, Roll 1312, ED 2-66: sheet 1B (149), line 62-63.
  4. [S76] NY Times, Jun 18, 1930. pg. 51.
  5. [S30] Obituary, online Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA), 20 Jan 1985 (on GenealogyBank.com).
  6. [S1] 1930 Federal Census, T626, Roll 1312, ED 2-66: sheet 3A-B (151), line 48-52.
  7. [S7] 1935 Directory.
  8. [S2] 1940 Federal Census, T627: ED 2-87, sheet 64A (1320), line 20-22.
  9. [S9] 1939 Directory.
  10. [S10] 1941 Directory.
  11. [S2] 1940 Federal Census, T627: ED 2-87, sheet 8A (1312), line 3-6.
  12. [S8] 1937 Directory.
  13. [S15] 1952 Directory.
  14. [S18] 1958 Directory.
  15. [S14] 1950 Directory.
  16. [S22] 1966 Directory.
  17. [S16] 1954 Directory.