Everything about Frederick August Otto Schwarz totally explained
Frederick August Otto Schwarz (
October 18,
1836 –
May 17,
1911) was a toy retailer who started
FAO Schwarz.
Biography
He was born in 1836 at
Herford,
Westphalia,
Germany, and immigrated in 1856 with his three brothers: Henry, Richard, and Gustav. He worked for a
Baltimore stationery importer. German exporters sometimes packed toys and other items in with the stationery in the hope of expanding their exports. Schwarz put the toys in the store window, and they outsold the stationery. By 1862 he'd switched to selling the toys from his own shop, and in 1870 he moved his business to
Manhattan. He married Caroline Clausen (1841-?). Together they'd three sons and three daughters: Anna Schwarz (1863-?); Ida Schwarz (1865-?); Henry Schwarz (1867-?); Frederick Schwarz (1868-?); and Emilie Schwarz (1870-?). Frederick August Otto Schwarz died in 1911.
Legacy
Frederick August Otto Schwarz, Jr. is his great grandson.
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