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Note: ide Marriage Index, 1853-2006," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KNQL-HWL : accessed 14 Nov 2013), Harry Schwerin and Gracie M Clark, 1903. Grace is listed as Gracie M Clark. The M. stands for Marguerite, which while never a legal name of Grace Clark, was used by her in her early years as an affectation according to my mother.
The source for the marriage of Harry Schwerin and Alice Zorn is their Marriage certificate #4408 from Brooklyn, Kings County accessed on http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/records-search/grooms.php.
The source for the birth and death dates and locations of Alice and her middle name are unsourced entries on the Public Member Family Tree of berubepaul on Ancestry.com.
The source for the middle name of Harry and his birthdate is his World War I Registration Card, 1917-1918.
The source for the suicide of Harry Schwerin is the Nassau Daily review Star, 27 Apr, 1939, p. 4.
The source for the data on Harry C Schwerin Jr. is from the California, Death Index, 1940-1997.
A summary of Harry's sad life is as follows:
•Harry (Henry) Sigmund Schwerin was born on 10 May 1884 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York. This is also confirmed by the NYC birth index
• His parents were Harry Schwerin (1850-1923) & Theresa Stern (1857-1936).He had a brother J. Edward Schwerin (info from father and mother's obits)
• Oct 1903 he is arrested and charged with forging a check in Brooklyn, NYC.
• Dec 1903 he makes his way to Denver and marries Gracie Clark.
• 1904/1905 he appears in the Denver city directory as an insurance solicitor.
• Oct 1904 Harry Schwerin Jr. born
• June 1906 Los Angeles, he is arrested an sentenced to 6 years in prison for check forgery.
• March 1908 he appeals to the Gov. of Calif. for clemency.
• July 1, 1908, he is granted clemency and he is released from prison. -- goes to NYC and isn't permitted to return to California
• 1908 Divorce from Grace
•.May 1913 he marries Alice Zorn in Brooklyn
• 1917 your grandfather writes to him
• 1918 he is given a pardon (record expunged?)
• 1930 census living in Brooklyn w/Alice
• Nov 1930 sells house in Brooklyn (probably when he and Alice moved to Lynbrook, L.I.)
• April 1939 dies of apparent suicide. Aged 55
Note: The source for the marriage of Harry and Grace is from "Colorado Statew
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