Oswald Leitert

John Werner Kluge was born Sept. 21, 1914, in Chemnitz, Germany. His father died in World War I. After his mother remarried, John was brought to America by his German-American stepfather to live in Detroit. [1922] The stepfather, Oswald Leitert, put him to work as a boy in the family contracting business.

Kluge left home at 14 [1928] to live in the home of a schoolteacher. (NYT obit)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kluge
• Employees in front of Oswald Leitert store
  • View of men wearing white hats posing in front of Oswald Leitert store. Signs on building: "Oswald Leitert; big wall paper sale, all wall paper reduced to 1/2 of the regular price; wall paper, mixed paints & varnishes." Sign on building in background: "[Osw]ald Leitert, painting, paper hanging, Kalsomining & glazing." Wooden-frame house on left. Handwritten on back: "Architecture--Domestic, 1910."
• "Oswald Leitert - painting & glazing" in Proceedings of the Board of Education, Detroit By Detroit (Mich.). Board of Education
• Historic Trinity Lutheran Church - Artisans and Craftsmen Cork Floors - Oswald Leitert
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 23 2016, 19:51:30 UTC
• Residence: 1940 - 16105 Stout, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
• Race: White
  • Reference: 1940 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Mar 23 2016, 19:54:27 UTC
• Residence: 1910 - Detroit Ward 16, Wayne, Michigan, USA
• Immigration: 1891
• Race: White
• Ethnicity: American
  • Reference: 1910 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Mar 23 2016, 19:55:09 UTC
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 23 2016, 19:56:55 UTC