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March 20, 1917.
JAEGER, Charles Rene,
Floriculturist.
The thorough technical training that
Mr. Jaeger received in European institutions
qualifying him for advanced chem-
ical research has been used by him in his
American home only indirectly. Floricul-
ture has claimed him since 1901, and he
is now engaged in that line in Rowayton,
Connecticut. Mr. Jaeger is a son of Hugo
and Caroline (Danner) Jaeger, his father
born in Aarau, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland,
in 1840. Hugo Jaeger as a young
man was a travelling salesman for a silk
house, covering Northern Africa, and in
his travels experienced the discomforts
and dangers of the Sahara, and contact
with rude peoples. Subsequently he became
a dealer in dye stuffs, and was engaged
in business in Rouen, France,
nearly all his life. His death occurred in
1900. His wife, Caroline Jaeger, was a
daughter of Eugene Danner, and was
born in Rouen. They were the parents
of: Maurice, deceased, who succeeded his
father in business, and resided in Rouen
Henri E., a florist of Pasadena, California ;
and Charles Rene, of whom further.
Charles Rene Jaeger was born in Rouen,
the historical capital of Normandy, August
27, 1880. He attended the Lycee
Corneille, and after the completion of his
course in that institution entered the
chemistry school, whence he was gradu-
ated B. S. in 1898. He pursued postgraduate
work in chemistry at Winter-
thur, Switzerland, and after two years in
Switzerland came to the United States.
He joined his brother Henri E., then a re-
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tail florist of New York City, in 1901, and
became a partner in his business, which
was conducted under the firm name of
Henri E. Jaeger, Incorporated. After an
association of eight years, Henri E. Jaeger
went to Pasadena, California, where he is
now (1920) engaged in the same line. Mr.
Jaeger continued the New York business
independently until 1917, and on August
I, 1917, moved to Rowayton, Connecticut,
to take charge of the green houses of
Treandley & Schenck, florists of New
York City. The houses of this firm are
under 182,000 square feet of glass, and
about fifty men are employed under Mr.
Jaeger's direction, this force specializing
in the production of roses, their bushes
yielding about three million blooms a
year. Mr. Jaeger is a skilled florist,
master of the most modern methods of
floriculture, and able through his tech-
nical training to make fine discrimina-
tion between those soil ingredients best
suited for different forms of plant life.
Mr. Jaeger is a member of South Norwalk
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
Mr. Jaeger married Ada Murphy, a
native of Lancaster, England, and they
are the parents of one son, Andre Hugo,
and a daughter, Shirley.
NASH, William Augustus,
Man of Enterprise.
One of the representative manufacturers
of South Norwalk, Connecticut, and
one of its leading citizens, William Au-
gustus Nash, formerly superintendent of
Jerome Frank & Company, dress manu-
facturers, was born July 1, 1868, in
Whitestone, Long Island, son of Captain
David and Betsey (Wood) Nash. Mr.
Nash is a member of one of the oldest
New England families, which from the