Death of Theodore Joseph Mattmann

Theodore Joseph Mattmann died on January 9th, 1890 after a nine day battle with pneumonia. Although he was originally buried in another cemetery, Theodore was reinterred with his wife and in-laws on March 9th, 1940 in the Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, Bergen, New Jersey. His wife Selma Elsa Seimer had died just days before on March 6th, 1940 in Leonia, Bergen, New Jersey.

"Coachman's Aim Poor"

Although the day-to-day life of Theodore Joseph Mattmann is still somewhat of a mystery, his brother Charles Coelestin Mattmann left many clues that allow us to follow the trail of his life story. One of these is a newspaper article that appeared on the second page of the New-York Daily Tribune on Saturday, August 31, 1907. Entitled "Coachman's Aim Poor," the article relates an experience which was had by Charles' daughter Sophia M. and her son J. Warren Baldwin. For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't enlarge the attached article or who simply want to enjoy a new experience, the entirety of the article can be heard by clicking on the podcast link entitled "Coachman's Aim Poor" on the blog toolbar. The music that accompanies the podcast is "Frog Legs Rag" which was composed by James Scott and was published in 1906, just one year before the newspaper article appeared.