Louis B. Schram

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Louis B. Schram, B.A. 1876
Born August 28, 1856, in Milwaukee, Wis
Died August 14, 1921, in Elberon, N J
Louis B. Schram was born August 28, 1856, in Milwaukee, Wis., where his father, Joseph B. Schram, had been engaged in the wholesale grocery business since coming to America from Raudnitz, Austria, in 1844. The latters parents were Bernhard and Esther Schram. He married Theresa, daughter of David L. and Sarah Schram, also a native of Raudnitz. Louis Schram was prepared for Yale by a private tutor. His appointments were a Junior first dispute and a Senior dissertation He belonged to the Class Football Twenty.

In October, 1877, after spending a year in travel, he entered the Columbia Law School, where he remained for two years. During part of this period he also read law in the office of Ashbel P. Fitch. He received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1879, having been admitted to the Wisconsin Bar the year before. He began practice in Milwaukee in the office of Senator Matthew H. Carpenter, with whom he was associated until Mr. Carpenter's death in 1881, after which he practiced alone for three years. In April, 1884, he became associated with Emil Wallber, then mayor of Milwaukee, under the firm name of Wallber & Schram. This partnership was dissolved in February, 1886, when Mr. Schram moved to New York City. He practiced there until June, 1891, when he became general manager of the India Wharf Brewing Company of Brooklyn, which he had organized in April, 1890. At the time of his death he was president of the company, having been elected to that office in 1907. He had been president of the Associated Brewers of New York and Vicinity and of the New York State Brewers Association; vice-president of the National Brewers Association; a trustee of the United States Brewers Association, and chairman of its advisory and labor committees; and a trustee of the Lager Beer Brewers Board of Trade, and chairman of its labor committee He was an advocate of more advanced systems of compensating workmen for injuries received in their employment, and an active member of the National Civic Federation and chairman of its committee on employment of state factory inspection and safe-guarding machinery. He had also served on the executive committee of the Commission on Labor of the Council of National Defense. In 1911 he delivered an address on "Factory Inspection" before the American Academy of Political and Social Science He was a member of the Merchants Association, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence, and the Anon Society of New York. He was a trustee of the Camera Club, and for several years held office as a vice- president of the New York Society of Amateur Photography. He attended the Temple Emanuel. His death, which was due to heart trouble, occurred at his summer home at Elberon, N. J., August 14, 1921. He was buried in Salem Field Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Long Island.

Mr. Schram was married March 9,1886, in New York City, to Sophie, daughter of Uriah and Pauline (Neustatter) Hermann, who survives him with their two children: Ruth Esther (Mrs. Francis M. Rosenfeld) and Herman, '15 S. He also leaves a sister and two brothers, one of whom, Charles Schram, graduated at Yale in 1881.