Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Befcuation We, the Class of 1913, Re- spectfully Dedicate This CIARLA, THE RESULT OF OUR REST EFFORT, TO on. Cl)arlE0 2lDolpl) cpieren Ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y . Endeavoring, hereby, to show in our feeble way our appreciation of the generosity, de- devotion and great interest which he has manifested in Muhlenberg College, and our recognition of the splendid example of manliness which he has given us by his excellent type of American citizenship.

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HON. CHARLES ADOLF SCHIEREN

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Charles Adolf Schieren C HARLES ADOLF SCHIEREN was born in Rhenish Prussia, Germany, February, 1842; he was educated in the public schools in Germany until 1856, when at the age of fourteen he came to the United States. He learned the cigar trade and as- sisted his father in the business in Brooklyn until 1 864, when he began, as a clerk, in the leather belting business of Philip F. Pasquay in New York City. In 1868 he established himself in the leather belting business with a small capital of his own savings, and from that enterprise has grown the present firm of Chas. A. Schieren Company in New York with many branch houses in this country and Hamburg, Germany, and tanneries in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Bris- tol, Tenn. It is in the City of Brooklyn that Mr. Schieren’s social and political interests are closely identified. In politics, he has always been a prominent R epublican. He introduced the elec- tion district plan, which caused the overthrow of the Democratic party and in 1893 the elec- tion of Mr. Schieren to the Mayorality by a tremendous majority. He turned his big business over to other hands and devoted his entire time to the duties of his high office. His administra- tion was characterized by a wise and conservative management of the city’s affairs, which gave hirn a national reputation. Throughout his busy life, Mr. Schieren has been a devoted Church-man. Confirmed in the Lutheran Church, he has been a most faithful and consecrated worker. Deeply interested in the future of the Lutheran Church in America, he has been largely responsible for the growth of Lutheranism in Brooklyn. As a Trustee and true and generous friend of our college, he has given a large fund to Muhlenberg College for the education of young men for the English Lutheran ministry. He has also endowed a Professorship at the Mt. Airy Theological Sem- inary, and given liberally to Home Missions, Education and the various other causes of the Church. Mr. Schieren has been successful in all his undertakings, is public spirited, clean charac- tered, and ever ready to support by his means and influence any enterprise which has for its pur- pose the betterment and welfare of the community, of which he has been an honored member for over half a century and is a splendid specimen of American citizenship. Page Four