Angelo was born 14 May 1872 in Mantova, Lombardia, Italy.  He was the out of wedlock son of Carlos Bellizario (sp?) and Lucia Parmelli.  The old family story indicates that the sexual relation between Lucia and Carlos  may have been non-consentual.

Angelo died of Cirrhosis of Liver on October 18, 1913 at his home in 83 West 6th Street, Paterson, New Jersey.  He was 41 years old.  He left behind four daughters (Marie, Jean, Stephanie and Yolanda) and one boy (Michael). Multiple sources indicate that he was a cigar salesman.  He was buried at Laurel Green Cemetery just outside of Paterson.

]]> http://hayesfamily.us/index.php/2009/12/01/the-death-certificate-of-angelo-anthony-baroni/feed/ 0 http://hayesfamily.us/index.php/2009/11/24/the-baron-scherer-chapel/ http://hayesfamily.us/index.php/2009/11/24/the-baron-scherer-chapel/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:32:58 +0000 Philip Hayes http://hayesfamily.us/?p=902 The Baron Scherer Chapel

The Baron Scherer Chapel (“The Chapel on the Hill”) is located in the Bellevue Cedar Hill Memory Gardens in Daytona Beach. Fl.

Karen Szczeniak, the volunteer Find-A Grave photographer who took the pictures, called the Chapel grand and impressive.  She says the chapel is in generally good condition but has some minor water seepage on one wall.  The wooden benches may be in need of some touch-up too.  Attached to the Chapel are two wings of an ordinary mausoleum structure.  The cemetery employee who took her there says it is the only one like it on the cemetery grounds… “and the cemetery is huge!”

Marie Baron Scherer had the Chapel built in hopes that other Baron family members would be buried there also.

Buried in the Chapel are:

Marie Baron Scherer
b. 14 May 1897  in Italy
d. 3 Nov 1992 in Contra Costa, California
Find-A-Grave Link:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44715735

Luis Pradillo Scherer
b. 20 Jun 1895 in Mexico City
d. Apr 1964 in Volusia County, Florida
Find-A-Grave Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44715917

Wylda (Yolanda Ofelia) Baron Nimidoff
b. 7 Jul 1905 in Patterson, NJ
d. 25 Nov 1986 in Contra Costa, California
Find-A-Grave Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44715830

Demitri Alexander Nimidoff
b. 12 Feb 1896 in Russia
d. Feb 1968 in Lafayette, Contra Costa, California
Find-A-Grave Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44774132

Gean (Eugene) A Baron
US Navy – World War II
b. 29 May 1921, Cleveland, OH
d. Mar 1984 Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Find-A-Grave Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44774065

A very special thanks to Karen Szczeniak for the photographs!

Laurel rescued them from a flood at her mother’s house.  She tried to clean them up as best she could, but in addition to the water damage, they also suffered some oil damage in the flood.  I scanned them in at high resolution and tried to crop out as much of the damage as I could without losing any of the important surroundings.  Now we just need to identify those photo’s that have the generic “img_XXX” label.

http://www.hayesfamily.us/albums/The%20Laurel%20Newman%20Collection/index.html

The steel strike disorders everywhere were terrifying experiences for the news photographers. At Warren, Ohio, three cameramen, Charles Wilk, Cleveland manager of Wide World Photos, Mack Baron, of International News, and Jack Hines, Associated Press staffer, were fired upon and dropped into a ditch as bullets whizzed over their heads. At the time, they were taking pictures of a food airplane landing in the Warren steel plant enclosure.

Dodging bullets in the steel strike was just one of the many thrills experienced by Baron in his long career as a news cameraman. “Buck,” as he is popularly known, has oftimes been called the “ace flying photographer,” and the “fearless photographer,” and has lived a veritable charmed life amid the dangers of his career. He has taken the longest chances but has always come out on top. “It can’t be done,” are words that are as unknown to him as a Tibetan chant. Now the Morro Castle disaster. . . . Buck will smile proudly when he recounts that experience. It brought him his greatest fame.

Sweeping low out of a thick mist and rain, Mack Baron, International News photographer, made this first picture to be taken of the burning steamship Morro Castle off Asbury Park, N. J., in 1935, in which 134 passengers and members ot the crew perished. Note lifeboat with survivors in foreground waiting to be picked up by rescue vessel. Later other photographers appeared over the scene, but Baron and Pilot Bill Gulick had already landed at North Beach, Long Island, with the negatives which -were rushed by motorcycle to the New York office foi an outstanding picture beat.

The phone jangled wildly in the bedroom of Baron’s home in Sunnyside, Long Island, one early morning in September, 1934. Buck stirred several times in bed, then finally forced himself to answer the phone. He switched on the light, glanced at the time (it was a little after three), then glued his ear to the receiver. It was his office calling: “The liner Morro Castle’s afire off the Jersey coast. May be hundreds dead. Get down to North Beach airport right away. We’ll have a plane ready for you to hop off at daylight.” Instantly Buck was alert.

As he fairly dived into his flying equipment, he took one glance at the window. Rain was slashing at the panes. “Flying weather, eh? Well, maybe. . . .”

When he reached ‘the airport in his car, everything was ready. Bill Gulick, a pilot for the O. J. Whitney Flying Service, had already warmed up his plane. They then waited for daylight. Dawn came with hardly a break in the weather. A misty rain was falling. They stepped outside the hangar door and could scarcely see an object ahead of them. Both shook their heads. Bill was game to take a chance and go out a little distance. They started and pretty soon were in the thick of it. Baron could barely see the outline of the wing tip in the heavy fog and rain. They kept on going.

The pilot had secured the approximate position of the burning ship before he left the hangar. An accurate judge of the distance and familiar through years of flying with the lay of the land below him, Gulick nosed his plane toward the Jersey shore and kept on going. There was no going back so long as the gas held out.

Buck sniffed. There was a strong smell of smoke in the air. They must be somewhere near the burning liner. The pilot turned the plane in the direction from where the smoke was drifting. Then suddenly, the mist lifted, the clouds rolled back, and the sun came through. They had a perfect visibility from an altitude of 500 feet. There, not a half mile away was the ill-fated ship spouting flames and smoke.

They circled the Morro Castle, and Baron obtained about twelve shots in less than six minutes. They came down to about deck level of the burning ship for a few closeups. They could see a handful of persons clustered on the bow of the ship, waving frantically to them. A half-filled lifeboat was pulling away. They were grieved that they could not aid in the rescue, but they realized they were helpless. Two passenger ships and an oil tanker nearby was a welcome sight. Buck asked Gulick to nose down so that he could get a fairly good closeup. The heat was intense and the smoke nearly choked them. Several times they almost went into a spin, but Gulick’s able pilot- ing kept the plane going over and round the ship until Buck had used all his plates. Then they turned north- ward.

The return trip was more dangerous. The fog had returned, and with it a squall with rain. The weather was getting worse each minute. They figured the best thing to. do was to fly as low as possible and follow the shore. Many times they fairly skimmed the waves. A crash seemed inevitable, but, finally, with sighs of relief, they sighted the houses in the vicinity of North Beach air- port. They came down to a safe landing.

At the airport Baron learned that a half dozen planes had tried to take to the air but were forced to return. It meant that his pictures were exclusive. An hour later the prints were rolling off the ferrotyped machines to be rushed to newspapers all over the country. It was fully an hour after that before another plane with photographer flew over the ship. It was one of the finest picture scoops in history.

Later, Baron’s thrilling pictures were introduced at the inquiry into the disaster. His outstanding shot, the one showing flames and smoke rolling upward from bow to stern, won him the National Headliners Award for the best news photograph of the year.

Any moment of the day or night may bring a flash of another story like the Morro Castle fire, the Argonaut mine disaster, a strike riot, a train wreck, an explosion. Everywhere the men with the cameras are prepared for the dangers, the thrills, the privations. They seek no acclaim, want no special awards. They will modestly tell you: “It’s just part of the day’s work!”

MARTINEZ – Wylda B Nimidoff, 81, died Tuesday at the Martinez Convalescent Hospital.

A homemaker, Nimidoff was a native of Paterson, N.J., and a resident of Martinez for the last 1-1/2 years.

Recitation of the Rosary will be at 6:15 p.m. Friday at Connolly & Taylor Chapel, Martinez.  Entombment will be at the Bellevue Memorial Gardens, Daytona Beach, FL.

She is survived by her son, Joe Nimidoff of Oakland; daughter Cynthia of Lafayette; two sisters, Marie Scherer of Walnut Creek and Stephanie Sessions of Delhi, N.Y.; and three grandchildren.

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The son of the late Walter C. Jr. and Helen (Crane) Root, he was born Oct. 10, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo., where he began his formal education at the University of Kansas, then joining the U.S. Merchant Marine. He was appointed a cadet midshipman and graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point with a bachelor of science degree, later seeing duty on T-2 tankers in the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf until the end of World War II.

After the war, he began a long career in the hospitality industry, eventually going to New York City where he served as domestic sales representative for Sheraton Hotels.

He later became director of sales for Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a subsidiary of Pan-American Airways, for which he traveled extensively, assisting in opening hotels in all Pan-Am destination cities in Latin America.

Later a director of group travel and sales incentive tours for Embassy Tours, Walter subsequently re-joined Sheraton Hotels as director of international sales and, in 1968, became general manager of Grapetree Bay Hotel in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Root family came to Delhi in 1972, where Walter joined the Hospitality Division at SUNY-Delhi and taught hotel sales and marketing, housekeeping and tourism for 13 years until retirement. He moved to Clifton Park three years ago.

A U.S. Navy reservist, Boy Scout counselor and assistant troop leader, he was founder of the Association of Group Travel Executives and was a member of the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association, St. Mary’s Parish in Waterford and served in numerous charitable and civic volunteer capacities over the years.

Surviving are his wife of 52 years, Barbara (Sessions) Root; two sons, Walt of Clifton Park, and Bill and his wife, Ellen, Root of Altamont; four grandchildren, Kevin, Brian and Megan Root, Samantha and her husband, Brian, Taylor; and a great-grandson, Austin Taylor.

He was predeceased in 2001 by his only sister, Helen Hill.

Friends are invited to call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Hall & Peet Funeral Home in Delhi, where the family will be in attendance and a vigil service will be held at 8:30 p.m. A funeral Mass, to celebrate Walter’s life, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at St. Peter’s Church, Delhi, where he was a former parishioner. The Rev. James McDevitt will preside, assisted by deacon Thomas O’Connell. Burial will be later in the Woodland Cemetery. A reception, following the Mass, will be at the SUNY-Delhi Hospitality Center.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, 1250 Hylan Blvd., Suite 4-B, Staten Island, NY 10305, will be appreciated.

Arrangements are entrusted to Robert A. Peet & Son, Delhi.

A= Rivarolo Mantovano, Italy     B = Lugano, Switzerland
c= Le Havre, France

Giaele married  Angelo Baroni around 1896 and had three children; Michael A (b. Mar 1897), Marie (b. 14 May 1898) and Jean B. (b. 7 May 1900).  At some point, the Baroni family moved from Italy  to Lugano, Switzerland, which is just over the Italian border, north of Milano, Italy.

Giaele and Angelo soon immigrated to the United States.  On October 11, 1902, they arrived in New York harbor on board the SS La Lorraine.  It appears that they came alone, leaving the children with their grandmother Lucy back in Switzerland.

In 1903, Angelo’s mother, Lucy, came to the United States bringing Michael, Marie and Jean with her.

In June of 1910, we find the Baroni family, with two additions, living at 277 6th Avenue in Paterson, New Jersey.  Stephanie I. (b. 24 May 1903 in Paterson, NJ) and Yolanda (b. 7 July 1905), aka Wylda, have joined the family. Angelo is listed as a commercial trade of Wines and Liquors. Today, 277 6th Avenue is home to Blessed Sacrament School.

In October of 1913, Angelo passed away, leaving his wife and five children. With the death of her husband, Giaele Baroni prepared to take her family to the bustling streets of Brooklyn, NY.

By February 1920, the family name has changed to Baron along with a couple of first names.  Giaele is now Jean and Yolanda is now Wylda.  Jean, Michael, Marie, Stephanie, and Wylda are now living at 2246 81st Street in Brooklyn, NY.   Recently married daughter Jean Louise and her husband, Frank Smith, are also living with them.  So is Angelo’s 76-year-old mother, Lucy.  In April of 1920, Marie Baron married Jacob Schick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Jacob Schick was the inventor of “the not yet invented Schick Razor”.  With this marriage, Marie became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

On March 5, 1923, Michael A Baron married Minerva (Vera) Meyer in Manhattan, New York.  Within a few years, they had two children; Eugene and Harvey.

By 1930, the 56-year-old, 5′ 2″ grey haired Jean Baron, immigrant from Italy, had filed a Declaration of Intention for Citizenship.  She was living at 4127 Westmoreland Road in Little Neck, Long Island with her daughter Wylda Nimidoff.  Marie divorced Jacob and is living in Manhattan by herself on University Place.  Marie Smith, daughter Jean Baron’s oldest daughter, was living with her Aunt Wylda and Grandma Jean in Queens, NY.

On April 21, 1931, Jean Baron swore an Oath of Allegiance and become a Naturalized Citizen of the United States of America.  With this Oath, she joins the ranks as one of the few women to obtain Naturalization.  As of today, we do not know why she seeked Citizenship at such a late stage of her life.

On January 17, 1941, Michael Alexis (Buck) Baron passed away.  He left behind a wife; Vera and two children; Eugene and Harvey.

Petition For Citizenship

Declaration of Intention

Oath of Allegiance

Sometime between 1930 and her 1941, Frank E Smith abandoned Jean Louise and their three daughters.  He was never seen again. Jean died on July 3, 1941 in Stamford, CT.  Patricia was 18 and Irene was just 14 when their mom passed away.  Shortly after her Mom’s death, eldest daughter Marie Smith married Nels Hallstrom and had their first child.

Then, on September 14, 1952, Jean Baron died while living with her Daughter Stephanie (Stevie) Sessions.

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“Windshield, shock absorbers and public attention are parts of this new type of traveling kennel designed by Wylda Baron of Long Island to conform with all state laws concerning the carrying of dogs on automobile running boards.  Fido can see America first because the upper part of the kennel is glass”