August Fabel

Possible 1st name Friedrich (with middle name August), but I have found no document supporting this. -Jackie Wayne Roberts.

Per his US Passport Application dated June 24, 1905, August stated that he immigrated to the US departing from Liverpool on 10 September 1854. The ship name was left blank.

August Fabel was born in Merxheim, Germany om April 8, 1832, the son of Johann Daniel and Maria Elizabeth Kratzman Fabel. August came to Louisville, Ky from the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany in 1860 via ship sailing from Liverpool, England on September 10, 1854 or arriving in the US on that day. On a future US passport application he is listed with a height of 5 ft 5 inches, with a hazel eyes.

"August Fabel (1832-1909) born in Merxheim, Germany Theresa Good (?-1885).He was brother to Johannette Fabel Buchhold and uncle to {her son} Rudolph. August was in the leather business with Conrad & Fabel Leather Company with offices in Louisville and Cincinnati. August had immigrated to the US before Rudolph Adolph Buchhold, and when Rudolph came to America, August gave him a position with the the leather company. Later, Rudolph's brothers, Carl and Adolph, also worked there."-- "Following Love's Journey: A Narrative of Harry Kerrick Yann and Augusta Katrinka (Catherine) Buchhold" by Mary Jane (Yann) Stapp, June 1998.

August Fabel was co-owner of a tannery in Shepherdsville, KY with Theophilus Conrad (b. 6 Aug 1832 in Alsace-Lorraine to Martin & Caroline Conrad with residence on 2nd Street and then at 1402 St. James Court, Louisville, Ky). In 1860 Conrad & Fabel built a new tannery on Twelfth Street in Louisville and in 1871 consolidated with the Falls City Tannery, owned by James Edmund Mooney. The new firm, called Conrad, Fabel and Mooney operated two tanneries. Conrad later acquired a tannery in Cincinnati called the American Oak Leather Company, and eventually withdrew from the company to run the Falls City Tannery alone. -- from Theophilus Conrad Home (Rose Anna Hughes Presbyterian Home) Photographs Historical and Descriptive Data, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Architectural and Engineering Record, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20243. HABS No. KY-144. Also handwritten on this document is "HABS, KY, 56-LOUVI,21-". http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ky/ky0000/ky0011/data/ky0011data...

The tannery on Twelfth St. in Louisville eventually became American Oak Leather Company before closing (probably in the early 1940s) James E. Mooney was President of American Oak Leather Company with August Fabel serving as Vice President.-- added by Jackie Wayne Roberts, Jr.

According to the 1880 census, August Fabel, his family, his sister-in-law(?) Mary Good (30yrs old), and a male and female servant, lived at 434 Broadway in Louisville, Ky, just down the street from his business partner Theophile Conrad (47 years old), who lived with his wife Mary (43), five daughters - Mena(?)(19), Emma (16), Carrie (13), Lucy (11), Minnie (9), and a 23 year-old female servant at 464 Broadway.

AUGUST FABEL
From Harness Magazine Vol 23, May 1909, page 61 (Google Query = conrad fabel mooney tannery)
https://books.google.com/books?id=q507AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=...

Obituary
AUGUST FABEL
August Fabel, first vice-president and treasurer of the American Oak Leather Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, died at his home in that city on Sunday May 2, of a complication of diseases. He was 75 years old.
Mr Fabel came to Louisville, Ky., in 1860 as a practical currier and tanner. After working at his trade for a while he became connected with T. Conrad, securing a small tannery in Louisville, which was run under the name of Conrad & Fabel. The product of these capable men was then considered the finest sole leather in this country. The business was finally consolidated in 1871 with that of the Falls City Tannery, owned by James E. Mooney, and the firm became Conrad, Fabel & Mooney. This continued until 1880, when Mr. Fabel and Mr. Mooney formed the American Oak Leather Company and built a tannery at Cincinnati, Ohio, retaining and improving at the same time the old tannery of Conrad & Fable, at Louisville. Mr. Fabel was at Cincinnati for the past twenty-eight years, taking a prominent part in the management of the business there.

"August Fabel was born in Mannheim (edit:actually Merxheim, according to his tombstone. Merxheim was at the time part of Hesse-Homburg, later Germany), Germany April 8, 1832. It is not recorded when he came to the United States. He was a tanner by trade and worked first in Indianola, Texas. In 1868 he was married to Theresa Wilhelmina Good in Louisville Ky. They lived three first two years in Indianola and there the first child, Helen was born. In June 1872 he purchased a home on the South side of West Broadway in Louisville within a block of where the Union R. R. Station now stands. He established a tannery, the American Oak Leather Company, on Twelfth Street near Kentucky Street. Later the tannery was moved to Cincinnati built where the Union R. R. Station now stands (edit: actually Cincinnati’s Union Terminal Which is next to where American Oak Leather Company stood), The corporation was dissolved about 1935.

There were three children. Helen, Irma, and Frederick. Theresa contracted tuberculosis and she and the children were sent to Paris, France, where she could be under the care of her brother, Dr. Richard Good, a practicing physician there. Incidentally, Dr. Good graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1861 and was a surgeon in the Federal Army during the Civil War. Theresa died in Paris Jan. 22, 1885.

After her death Mr. Fabel established the family home at 2519 Grandin Road, on a high bluff overlooking the Ohio River. There he died May 2, 1909. Both Theresa and he are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville"
--From a family genealogical book “Irma" handwritten on cover (Genealogical material compiled by the descendants of August and Theresa Wilhelmina Good Fabel), added by Jackie Wayne Roberts Jr.

"August and Theresa Wilhelmina Fabel lived in Indianola, Texas for about two years after their marriage, and there the first child Helen was born Jan. 13, 1871.

The family lived in Louisville, Kentucky for a few years before establishing a permanent home in Cincinnati. At the age of fourteen years Helen's mother died and she assumed responsibility of the home for her father and younger sister and brother. She attended Miss Lupton's School and at the age of 18 took and passed the Harvard Entrance examinations in Chemistry and Latin, but by her domestic responsibilities was denied the then rare opportunity to pursue her course in higher education." --From a family genealogical book “Irma" handwritten on cover (Genealogical material compiled by the descendants of August and Theresa Wilhelmina Good Fabel), added by Jackie Wayne Roberts Jr.

On 18 September 1876, August Fabel & family (Theresa, Helen, Irma & Fred) are listed as passengers on the SS Pennsylvania sailing from Liverpool, England to Philadelphia, PA. Their last legal residence is listed as US as is where they intend to reside, so this must have just been a holiday/vacation/leisure trip (i.e. not immigration). https://www.immigrantships.net/v16/1800v16/pennsylvania18760918.html -- Jackie "Wayne" Roberts

Williams Cincinnati Directory of 1885 has these listings:

A M E R I C A N O A K L E A T H E R C O . ,
Jas. E . Mooney, President;
S. M. Lemont, Vice President;
August Fabel, Secretary and Treasurer;
Tanners and Leather Dealers; Manufacturers of Belting, Hose, Packing and Manufacturers' Supplies, Salesroom, I'll Main; Tannery, Kenner, Dalton Av., McLean Av. and Florence

F
Fabel August, sec'y and treas. American Oak
Leather Co. 141 Main, bds. Palace Hotel

https://apps.cincinnatilibrary.org/citydirectory/WilliamsCincinnati...

The Williams Cincinnati Business Directory of 1908 has the following listings:
American Oak Leather Co (The) Jas E
Mooney pres, August Fabel lat vice pres
and treas, H H Bechtel 2d vice pres and
secy, Jaa F Taylor aast secy and trew
n w c Kenner and Dalton Av
American Oak Tanning Co n w c Kenner and
Dalton Av

F
F & L Watch & Jewelry Ce, Isaac Levitea
propr 725 Central Av
Fabel August 1st vice pres and treas The
American Oak Leather Co n w c Kenner
and Dalton Av

http://apps.cincinnatilibrary.org/citydirectory/WilliamsCincinnatiB...

From From “Congressional Record - Senate” June 21
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1909-pt4-v44/pdf/GPO-... :
American. Oak Leather Company.-Incorporated ln Ohio and operates
a. large plant at Cincinnati. It is said to be one of the largest inde·
pendent tanneries in the United States. Company controls the Oak
Extract Company, of Newport, Pa., and the Ohio Falls Oak Leather
Company o.f Louisville, and on .January 1, 1907, acquired the plant of
the American Oak Tanning Company, at New Decatur, Ala.
Capital stock.-Authorized, $5,000,000 common and $2,500,000 cumu-
lative preferred; par $100. No bonds. Dividends at the rate of 5
per cent per annum are paid on the preferred quarterly, January 1, and
on the common at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. Transfer office,
Cincinnati, Ohio. In certain cases the preferred stock has equal voting
power with the common. No mortgage can be created except with the
assent of a majority of the preferred shareholders.

August's 1905 Application for a US Passport states: "I solemnly swear that I was born at Germany or about the 8th day of April 1833, that I emigrated to the United States, sailing on board the ______ from Liverpool, on or about the 10th day of September 1854; that I resided 50 years uninterruptedly, in the United States, from 1881 to 1905 at Cincinnati O; that I was naturalized as a citizen of the United States before the City Court of Louisville Ky at Louisville, on the 3rd day of May 1861, as shown by the accompanying Certificate of Naturalization; that I am the IDENTICAL PERSON described in said Certificate; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Cincinnati in the state of Ohio where i follow the occupation of Merchant; that I am about to go abroad temporarily; and that I intend to return to the United States within 1 year, with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion SO HELP ME GOD.
Sworn to before me this 24th day of June, 1905 [Notary Public Signature}
DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT
Age: 72
Stature: 5 feet 5 inches, Eng
Forehead: high
Eyes: hazel
Nose: {Can't read writing}
Mouth: large
Chin: round
Hair: brown grayish
Complexion: ruddy
Face: round
INDENTIFICATION
Cincinnati June 24, 1905
I certify that I know the above named August Fabel personally and know h{im} to be the identical person referred to in the within-described Certificate of Naturalization, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. [signed] Edw. L[can't read}, 1204 Vine Str.
Applicant desires passport sent to following address: Aug. Fabel Pres*, American Oak Leather Co., Cincinnati, O
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9X7-H59G?view=ind...

August Fabel and Theresa Good Fabel were married November 17, 1868 in Louisville, Ky. by A. T (possibly different middle initial) Spalding. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SS-9R3H?i=124&wc...