Henry Garrison SILLECK, III

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• Census: 1930, Living in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living in Huntington, Suffolk Co., New York

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New York Post, Thursday, August 11, 1941.

The Sillecks Are at It Again
He's Not Responsible for Her Debts

For the second time, Henry Garrison Silleck 3d, socialite, flier and nephew of the late Jacob Ruppert, has plunged into print with one of those "I will not be responsible, etc." ads. The target is his attractive wife, the former Virginia Cobb. Silleck, now a captain in the 3d Reconnaissance Squadron stationed at Orlando, Fla., said today that she had been "running hog-wild, piling up debts, in the stores."

"She's taken my personal belongings we had stored in our old home at Northport, L. I., which is now rented," he said from his home at Brae Head, Greenwich, Conn., where he's on furlough. "I came up here from Orlando to answer her separation suit and keep her from confiscating my clothes." . Answering her charge that he had failed to support her, he said, "She has refused my pleas to live with me at various stations to which I have been assigned in line of duty, so I did stop supporting her. Now I can't find her,"

Silleck was secretly married to Miss Cobb in 1934 after he and his first wife, the former Adelaide Slosson, whom he married at 19, were divorced. He inserted his first blast against her in the papers in 1938 but they were reconciled.

Henry married Adelaide Willets SLOSSON on 15 Feb 1925 in Elkton, Maryland. Adelaide (daughter of Charles Aubrey SLOSSON and Rosetta WILLETS) was born on 29 Sep 1906 in New York City, New York; died in Mar 1973 in Cos Cob, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan Willets SILLECK was born on 29 Mar 1931 in New York City, New York Co., New York ; died on 12 Apr 2003.

Henry married Virginia COBB in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Frances DOUGLASS on 16 Oct 1948. Frances (daughter of Frederick H. DOUGLASS and Anna DISCO) was born on 26 Oct 1913 in Lake Placid, New York; died on 5 Jul 2006 in Lake Placid, New York; was buried in Saint Agnes Cemetery, Lake Placid, Essex Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Henry married Amanda Elizabeth RUPPERT. Amanda (daughter of Jacob RUPPERT, Sr. and Anna GILLIG) was born on 3 Dec 1878 in New York City, New York; died on 25 Apr 1952 in New York City, New York; was buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Manhatten, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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Amanda Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Ruppert-Silleck was the beloved wife of Henry Garrison Silleck, Jr. and daughter of Jacob and Anna Gillig-Ruppert and sister of Hon. Col. Jacob Ruppert, Jr., famous beer baron and owner of the New York Yankees until his death in 1939. She had three children: Henry Garrison Silleck III, Helen Ruppert Silleck (Mrs. Frank Jos. Holleran) and Ruth Rita Silleck (Mrs. Jos. Basil Maguire). Amanda lived her entire life in New York City, within a few blocks of the very home in which she was born on the corner of East 93rd and Fifth Avenue. She passed of cancer on April 25, 1952. Also surviving her were her three grandchildren, Glenna, Richard and Romer Holleran. A requiem mass was held at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Glenville, Connecticut (now St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Greenwich, Connecticut). She was the last survivor of her siblings, Cornelia, Frank, Jacob, Anna and George, all interred herein.
--- K. Jacob Ruppert, New York/New Orleans.

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Founder of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company. Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was one of the first and most noted brewers in the US. He was born in NYC and was a son of Franz and Wilhelmina Zindel-Ruppert of Bavaria. Under he expert guidance of his father, Jacob learned the brewing trade thoroughly. At ten he began working for his father's Turtle Bay Brewery in Midtown Manhattan which was then only two years old. Work was hard for him and his father, as machinery was scarce during the Civil War. In 1867 he opened the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Co. on Manhattan's then-forested Upper East Side. With a 50 foot square brick building, he opened what was to be the first of many breweries. The Jacob Ruppert Brewery steadily became one of the largest and best-equipped breweries in the world. He eventually broadened his entrepreneurial interests to include real estate which became the biggest money maker for the Rupperts helping them to survive (along with Jacob Jr's interest in baseball) the coming war, Prohibition and Great Depression. Jacob Jr. eventually took over the brewing business and brought it and the Ruppert name to greater fame and glory.Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was a forceful, single-purposed man with a great capacity for work. His charities were numerous but unostentatious.He married Anna Gillig, daughter of brewer George Gillig, and had six children: Cornelia, Jacob, Frank, Anna, George and Amanda, all interred with their father in our family's mausoleum. Jacob died of cirrhosis at the age of 74, an illness brought on by the years of testing the very brew he sold. (bio by: K. Jacob Ruppert)

Jacob married Anna GILLIG. Anna was born on 12 Aug 1842 in New York City, New York; died on 16 Mar 1924 in New York City, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of George Gillig and Anna Dorn